S6 Bonus: Austin Parker, Lightstep

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Austin Parker started out at a young age with computers, writing programs in BASIC and hanging out on bulletin boards. Prior to his tech career, he held many other jobs - as a short order cook, waiting tables, and taking tickets at a theater. When he stepped into this industry, he started out in test automation, followed by getting involved in open source communities, which is how he got into Developer Relations. What he likes about this arena is that DevRel is taking your companies story of a product, and making it harmonize with what everyone else is singing in the market. He has a young family, which occupies most of his time these days. But he likes to do photography, tinkering with electronics, and building model aircraft. Back in the day, he experienced the glory days of Radio Shack where you could grab electronic components on a whim. Austin Parker has been at his current company for 4 years, right after stealth mode ended. He has helped enable the company to support developers through their innovative tech stack, built by industry experts. This is Austin's creation story of Lightstep. 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	We had two people kind of go off into a corner for a little while, for like a month,
0:07.0	and work on sort of a prototype of what this would look like, this merged project would look like.
0:12.0	And so we said, oh, well, if it only took them, like, that's like 80% of the way there, right?
0:17.0	Should have been more cognizant of sort of the risk that we had taken on.
0:21.6	We course corrected on that, I think in an interesting way,
0:25.6	because what we really had to deal with was like the reputational risk of,
0:30.6	well, you said that you were going to do X,
0:33.6	and now you're kind of backing out on that.
0:36.6	My name is Austin Parker. I'm head of developer relations. and now you're kind of backing out on that.
0:40.1	My name is Austin Parker,
0:42.7	I'm head of developer relations at Lightstein.
0:49.5	This is Code Story,
0:53.1	the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead.
0:59.5	A team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Labhart,
1:04.1	and today how Austin Parker heads up developer relations
1:08.1	for the cloud-n native platform, LightStep.
1:13.5	All this and more.
1:15.1	OnCote Story.
1:19.3	Austin Parker started out at a young age with computers, writing programs and basic and
1:23.9	hanging out on bulletin boards.
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