2026-02-03, 12:20–12:25, D.Aud
Are you interested in starting a company? A year ago, a friend and I got a wild hair and did just that. We took no VC, committed to Open Source and sticking it to the man. A year in, things are developing much slower than I’d wanted but we’re doing all right. We’re signing some decent contracts and have made our first few hires.
I’d like to tell you a few quick stories and maybe help you work up the nerve to jump in the pool too.
Community lead, developer advocate, and founder; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! \o/ I've been in the tech industry in one way or another since the late 90's doing everything from devops before devops was a thing at a tiny security startup, to forensics investigations, to maintaining a compute cluster for a computational anthropology department at an American university and teaching the grad students how to write distributed Java code to run on it.
I run marathons in those funny finger shoes and my social engagement is primarily at https://hachyderm.io/@binford2k. You may have heard of that thing I'm building -- https://overlookinfratech.com.