S8 E25: Andrew Colombi, Tonic

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Colombi is a 38 year old tech guy from way back. At 12 years old, he wanted to play a computer game, but lacked the RAM to load it. After digging into the internal configuration to delay the load of peripherals, he was hooked on computers and eventually, coding. Outside of tech, he is picking back up learning piano, and really enjoys biking. He mentioned he just got a new gravel bike, which is a street bike with a front suspension. In the past, Andrew frequently worked with data that was private, with other users not having access. So, he had to create fake data, for multiple different projects. When he tried to do this, it took him much longer than anticipated, and it was incredibly valuable for multiple uses (stress testing and demos to name a few). This was key to eventually building a real tool for this, and starting a new adventure. This is the creation story of Tonic. 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	examine where you are in the spectrum between hacker and perfectionist and then try to be more like
0:06.4	the other guy. There have been times when I've had this grandiose idea for how to design a thing
0:12.8	and Adam is like, or we could put an if statement here and just three lines later the problem solved.
0:18.3	That's obviously the right idea, right? Three lines to solve the problem? Great. On the other hand, Adam will sometimes be like, I'm going to use exactly the
0:24.7	source that I have, the system that I have, and I'm just going to plow through it. And I'm like,
0:27.6	if you just redesign this class to be like an interface and then we can use polymorphism here,
0:32.8	it'll be like so much easier for you to do. And actually actually it's less code in the long run. So I think both sides can have their winning moment.
0:40.9	I'm Andrew Columbia, co-founder and CTO at Tonic A.I.
0:46.8	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	Six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing at 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	Just took many goes to get right.
1:01.9	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.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.7	All that infrastructure was a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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