S6 Bonus: Chakri Devarakonda, Tavant
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at it from a quality engineering standpoint, there are multiple tools and technologies across. |
| 0:07.0 | In an enterprise organization, not every tool or a technology would be similar to another enterprise organization. |
| 0:15.0 | There is no two equals in terms of it. |
| 0:17.0 | And at the same point of not even one tool or a technology will solve your problem because |
| 0:21.9 | there are multiple applications in your ecosystem which will actually not allow you to stick |
| 0:28.4 | to a particular tool and technology. |
| 0:31.3 | That's the first thing what I wanted to look at it as an MVP battlefield. |
| 0:36.6 | My name is Chakri Debra Kanda. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm the vice president of quality engineering at Tamanca. |
| 0:47.6 | This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead. |
| 0:59.5 | A team that has your back. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm your host, Noah Laparte. |
| 1:04.5 | And today I'm how Shakri DeVirconda joined forces with the team at Devon to establish automated testing driving digital innovation. |
| 1:13.8 | All this and more on Code Story. |
| 1:20.0 | Chakri DeVirconda finds it strange how he got into quality engineering, starting out as a security guy. |
| 1:26.3 | That being said, he can definitely see the intersection |
| 1:28.4 | of both. Where he used to test a lot of security devices and labs, he shifted into the quality |
| 1:33.8 | side of things and ensuring things work properly. He's a family-oriented guy with two boys |
| 1:38.8 | nearing the end of grade school. Three years ago, Shokri carried forward his quality mindset into his current role. |
| 1:45.9 | He was intrigued by the intersection of product, services, and quality. |
| 1:51.0 | This is his creation story at Tavant. |
| 1:58.4 | So Tavant is a product and services organization. |
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