We have discovered, well, we always knew that some things are not perfect in the way that we develop our software.

And in retrospect, you have the opportunity to take a step back and say, hey, I should really have prioritized that a year ago.

Whenever I first discover, I have this scale issue or business logic issue.

But you never want to be in the reactive mode. You don't want to cause burnout to your team

member. You want to be to have an as predictable as possible deployment. My name is Barack Schuster, CTO and co-founder of Bridgecru, now part of Palo Alto Networks.

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Barack Schulster claims he's generally a boring guy.

What he does professionally he loves to do in his free time, which is coding.

He contributes regularly to open-source projects, but outside of this, he loves sea kayaking and equates the ups and downs of the sport to software engineering.

He is married with two sons, both under five years old.

They're into building puzzles together and playing ball as they are sporty kids.

Barack and his wife like to visit restaurants, watch movies together, and thoroughly enjoy going to

rock concerts. His favorite rock band is Guns and Roses, but his favorite concerts have been

U-2 and Imagine Dragons. In February of 2019, Barack and his co-founders started their company's

journey by asking the question,

How do you secure your cloud environment?

What they found was their experience with fixing these environments were similar to the market,

and no solution had been created for streamlining this process,

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