The founder left Stripe after starting a family, took parental leave, helped found a Python non-profit, and returned home before committing fully to a new startup. The founder's entrepreneurial impulse began in high school building Access apps, but career paths through enterprise software, free culture, and open-source delayed that pursuit. After eight years working on infrastructure, security, observability, and developer productivity, a desire for more human-focused work emerged around 2016. A belief in applications over packaging grew, arguing that languages and devtools remain essential but the primary goal is building software that effects real-world change. The founder is now focused on product.
The short version up front: Since starting a family and leaving Stripe, I've pursued the dream that brought me to Silicon Valley. I've founded a startup. After taking some parental leave, helping found a Python non-profit, and a nice long visit back home, I was raring for a challenge. So these days, outside of family, I'm all in on something new.
I've wanted to start my own business since building Access apps in high school. But, the reality of leaving my family and moving to study in the USA, combined with the technical and creative fulfillment of the software industry, took me on a scenic route through enterprise software, free culture, and open-source. That very same reality has since conspired to convince me to return to my original aspirations.
To start my career, I worked on software infrastructure, security, observability, and developer productivity. But after eight years, around 2016, I started longing for something more human. You can see this start to come out in The Packaging Gradient. At a time where it seemed like everyone around me was talking about pip, pipenv, and PyPI, I couldn't help but remind people that the real end goal of software has always been the application (or even the appliance).
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