S8 Bonus: Shirshanka Das, Acryl Data

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post undergrad, he got his PhD at UCLA, eventually working at PayPal and Yahoo on massive architectural systems. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 kids, he's an accomplished Indian vocalist, and has a passion for swimming, which he states is his therapy. After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version. This is the creation story of Acryl Data. 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 actually were able to do things that most lean startups cannot, often starting on day zero with zero lines of code written.
0:09.2	And they're starting with, okay, how do we build it? What do we build? What does this look like?
0:14.5	I already had the good fortune of building the product at LinkedIn over, you know, six plus years as a reaction to solving those
0:23.6	problems for LinkedIn. We open sourced it and saw the community kind of starting to build
0:29.3	really large companies that said, hey, if you'd like to pay LinkedIn for this, can we get on a
0:35.0	call? I'm Shoshankad Das and I'm the co-founder and CTO of Accreldata and founder of the Data Hub project.
0:46.7	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	Six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.7	All that infrastructure was a pain.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:14.5	Total waste of time.
1:15.9	The stories you don't read in the headlines.
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