S10 Bonus: Jon Perl, QA Wolf

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jon Perl is originally from Virgina, growing up on a computer. Mom is an architect and Dad is an electrical engineer. Jon picked up programming at his first job, when he automated a companies manifest creation. He has been passionate about programming ever since. Now, he lives in Seattle with his wife, young family, and dog. He enjoys all that Seattle offers, including the touristy stuff, and finding places for his daughter to pick up leaves. At his previous company, Jon observed a failure in systems that required his customers to fall back to manual processes. The pain of this situation led him and his current co-founders to have a strong desire - to make sure something like this never happened again. This is the creation story of QA Wolf. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Yeah, the way we started off iterating from the MVP that we launched, we tweeted about it,
0:06.1	we opened sourced it, and we got over 100 likes on Twitter, which is really exciting
0:11.8	for us because we hadn't gotten any feedback at that point. We started to get some people leaving
0:16.4	issues on our GitHub repo, and we used those to talk to those users and basically continue
0:23.6	to build out functionality to make it easier and easier to create tests. So what was driving
0:27.8	a roadmap at the beginning was how can we make things easier? How do we reduce friction? And
0:32.0	then let's use like what our users are asking us for towards that goal of constantly making things easier and easier.
0:38.9	My name is John Pearl. I'm the CEO and co-founder of QA. Wolf.
0:45.5	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:51.2	It's six months moonlighting. There's nothing at the backcans. Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:57.0	I don't exactly know what to do next.
0:59.0	It took many goes to get right.
1:01.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:03.0	The company is its people.
1:05.0	The teams help each other achieve.
1:06.0	Most proud of her team.
1:08.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:10.0	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:11.6	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:13.3	Total waste of time.
1:14.7	The stories you don't read in the headlines.
1:17.3	It's not an easy thing to achieve.
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