S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings at home. He went to school for electrical engineering, and funny enough, interviewed for a computer science job by accident, effectively stumbling into the trade. Outside of tech, he spends his free time with his fiancé, planning for the wedding, and visiting Manhattan beach for a good walk . Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast. This is the creation story of Lightspark. 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	This episode is sponsored by AMI.
0:02.9	Hardware asset management is hard, and most companies are wasting time and effort on a bad solution.
0:08.4	Asset Management International, or AMI, has been making software to simplify the ham process for over 20 years.
0:15.9	Their automated tools help companies keep tabs on their equipment, from storage to what's on your desk.
0:21.4	Head over to amitracks.com to request a demo today.
0:26.1	We started out by running a full L&D node for each customer.
0:30.5	Obviously, that wasn't something that would be scalable or efficient long term.
0:34.3	If you have to spin up an AWS pod for every single customer, if you have
0:38.7	hundreds or millions of customers, that's obviously not going to scale well. So we started off
0:43.6	taking that as we want to get something out on the market. We want to be able to prove that we can
0:49.4	actually simplify how lightning works and make it so that customers can easily integrate.
0:55.1	And from there, we'll be able to figure out how we scale better and actually make the right
0:59.4	tradeoffs later on. But we didn't want to overcomplicate things at the start until we actually
1:03.7	felt like we had something that was going to be valuable. I'm Kevin Hurley. I'm the CTO and one of
1:08.6	the co-founders at Light Spark.
1:12.7	This is Code Story.
1:15.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
1:18.5	I think six months moonlighting.
1:19.9	It's nice enough of the backcans.
1:21.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
1:24.4	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:25.7	It took many goes to get right.
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