S9 E31: Konrad Niemiec, Lekko

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Konrad Niemiec lives in San Francisco. He is very close to his family, of which his parents are polish immigrants. He started coding when he was 11, while working for his Dad. His core values are curiosity and community, which drives a lot of what he does outside of tech. He likes to learn things, and his current hobby set includes surfing and spike ball, of which he is working on perfecting his spin serve. Konrad worked at Uber, on the self driving team. After a few years, he wanted to be less of a cog in the machine and joined a small startup. He introduced a feature flagging platform, and realized how quickly configuration bloat appeared on the platform. He also realized how dynamic configuration could take the platform beyond the limits of feature flags. This is the creation story of Lekko. 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 were just really focused on, oh, what is the best parts of these solutions that we can take and put together into a product most easily and deliver it to customers?
0:09.0	But what we didn't have a great understanding about was what problems are we solving?
0:13.8	Are we solving the problem of getting untested code out to production and being able to roll that back quickly?
0:19.9	Are we solving the problem
0:21.2	of a product manager or a customer success person or a sales person or an ops person making
0:26.8	a change to software safely? Like what problems are we actually solving with this tool? And who needs
0:33.3	this the most? And who is that initial user base? My name is Conrad Nimitz. I'm the founder and
0:40.7	CEO of Leco. This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:50.7	It's six months moonlighting. There's nothing like the backcats.
0:56.6	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.0	I don't exactly know what to do next. She took many goes to get right.
1:00.5	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:03.2	The company is its people.
1:04.7	The teams help each other achieve.
1:05.9	Most proud of our team.
1:07.4	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:10.0	All that infrastructure is a pain. pain yes we've been fighting it as
1:12.4	a group total waste of time the stories you don't read in the headlines it's not an easy thing
1:17.8	to achieve my good took off the shelf and dusted it off and try to begin to ride the ups and downs of the
1:23.6	startup life you need to really want it. It's not just about technology.
1:29.5	All this and more on Code Story.
1:36.5	I'm your host, Noah Laparte, and today how Conrad Nimians built you a way to ship faster with no redeploys and no mistakes.
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