S6 E7: Brian Vallelunga, Doppler

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Brian Vallelunga loves to build things - products, companies, or silly things on the side. In Elementary school, he was asked by one of his friends, "why can't you put a movie on your phone?". This got Brian's mind racing, and he went home, ripped a movie into the specific format for his flip phone, and shared it immediately with his friend. Post that, he competed in science fairs, even at the state level. One of the projects, he built a craft that was lighter than a fingernail, and flew without wings or engines. Brian led a portion of the engineering team at Uber, after inserting himself as an intern into the right meetings, which awarded him interesting projects. At the same time, he was building a crypto marketplace on the side, but struggling to get it launched. After taking a trip to reset, his mind kept coming back to a problem he faced while attempting to launch the marketplace - and it was surrounding managing environment variables and secrets. And his community of developers confirmed the need. This is the creation story of Doppler. 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	In the early days, the feedback was very stark.
0:04.6	It was like one side or the other.
0:05.7	I would absolutely never use this tool for these reasons, or I love it.
0:10.2	And I can't imagine a world where I'm not using it.
0:14.1	Customers and potential customers landed on one side or the other.
0:17.2	And so on the ones that loved it, we knew we were on a path.
0:19.9	We were building something that made sense.
0:21.9	And so we kind of had like a roadmap, but that roadmap didn't really change that much based on customers really loving it.
0:28.7	Sure, we added some features here and there based on power users wanting certain things.
0:32.6	But I wouldn't say that actually had the biggest impact.
0:35.5	The biggest impact, all the customers had said, oh, we will never use this in a thousand years.
0:40.4	I'm Brian Val Lungut, CEO of Doppler.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the 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 Laphardt, and today how Brian Valalongi created the best way for your platform to keep secrets in lockstep across environments.
1:13.6	All this and more. OnCote Story.
1:20.3	Brian Valalanga loves to build things, products, companies, or silly things on the side.
1:25.8	In elementary school, he was asked by one of his friends,
1:28.5	why can't you put a movie on your phone?
1:30.8	This got Brian's mind racing and he went home,
1:33.7	ripped a movie into the specific format for his flip phone,
1:36.8	and shared it immediately with his friend.
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