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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S9 E10: Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dennis Pilarinos was tinkerer at an early age. He always found himself wanting to understand how things were put together - and as such, he would take them apart and try to reassemble them. He grew up in Canada, and is currently based in Vancouver. He is professional driven by tech curiosity and attention to detail. Previously, he founded and sold BuddyBuild, which went from inception to acquisition within 3 years. Outside of tech, he has his private pilots license, which allows him to fly a lot and take his mind off startup life. Dennis is a self proclaimed impatient person, and a mediocre developer - which drives his building of solutions. In context of a company, there is a lot of information that exists in the context of a company, which is necessary to know when getting familiar with a codebase. When you can't find that info, you are essentially... well, blocked. So, Dennis decided to help people solve that problem. This is the creation story of Unblocked. 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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A friend of mine had this great expression, which is like there are two types of companies

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in the world.

0:07.0

Those with technical debt and dead ones.

0:09.7

We have this kind of polling system or a pushing system really that pushes notifications

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to all these clients that we have.

0:15.5

We have thousands and thousands of them.

0:17.2

And we're running a query that worked up to a certain point and it was good enough.

0:21.7

And then it destroyed that pusher system.

0:25.3

And so we had to instrument it, figure out what was causing the issue, update the query,

0:30.4

retroactively put the requirements into the scale that we need to actually use for that system.

0:35.8

I think it's actually like a very reasonable thing to do in the early stages of a company.

0:40.1

My name's Dennis Pilarinos and I'm the founder and CEO of Unblocked.

0:46.8

This is Code Story.

0:49.4

A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.

0:52.3

It's 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

Just 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.

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