Intro Mike: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, founder of Gluu, and this is episode 70 with Patrick Backman, General Partner, CEO and Co-Founder at OpenOcean, and Co-Founder of MariaDB. This episode uncharacteristically diverges from the normal format. It’s more of a general interview than a discussion on the... The post Episode 70: Early-Stage Venture Capital, OpenOcean, with Patrik Backman first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
May 31, 2024•21 min
Intro Mike: Hello, and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, Founder of Gluu, and this is episode 69, with Kevin Mueller, Founder and CEO of Passbolt. Passbolt helps teams securely share secrets, which could be passwords, API credentials or cryptographic keys. It’s one of the few open-source projects in the privileged... The post Episode 69: Kevin Mueller, Co-Founder / CEO Passbolt first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Apr 10, 2024•32 min
Intro Mike: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, Founder of Gluu, and this is episode 68 with Solomon Hykes, Co-Founder and CEO of Dagger, but also formerly the co-founder and CTO of Docker. Back in February, I recorded this episode at the Civo Navigate conference in my hometown of Austin,... The post Episode 68: Solomon Hykes, Co-Founder / CEO Dagger first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Mar 15, 2024•29 min
Intro Mike: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host Mike Schwartz, founder of Gluu, and this is episode 67 with Peter Farkas, Co-founder and CEO of FerretDB. Why FerretDB and not PigeonDB? That’s a very good question. Whereas pigeons are underappreciated for their speed and resiliency, ferrets are fierce and furry and... The post Episode 67: Document Database FerretDB with Peter Farkas, Co-Founder/CEO first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Mar 07, 2024•24 min
OSFS Website: https://05f5.com/ Intro Michael: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is a special episode to promote the inaugural Open Source Founder Summit, which is happening in Paris, May 27th and 28th. Talking about this event is Emily Omier, host of The Business of Open Source Podcast,... The post Episode 66: Open Source Founders Summit 05f524, with Emily Omier, Founder first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Feb 26, 2024•15 min
Intro Mike Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 65 with Nick Schrock, Founder and CTO of Dagster, a platform that helps companies create data pipelines, which is critical to transform and update data in order to make it useful, for example, to generate reports, content,... The post Episode 65: Scaling Data Pipelines with Nick Schrock, Founder/CTO of Dagster Labs first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Feb 14, 2024•36 min
Intro Mike: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 64 with Idit Levine, Founder and CEO of Solo.io, an API Gateway and Service Mesh company with a product called Gloo – not to be confused with Gluu – the company that I lead, who sponsors this podcast.I’ve been... The post Episode 64: API Service Mesh with Idit Levine, CEO and Founder of Solo.io first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Nov 07, 2023•23 min
Intro Mike: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 63, with Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the software startup behind Cilium, an eBPF-based Networking, Security and Observability project. This episode was recorded in early February at the inaugural State of Open Source Conference or SoCon,... The post Episode 63: EBPF Networking Isovalent with Liz Rice – Chief Open Source Officer first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Aug 13, 2023•25 min
Almandine Le Pape is the Co-Founder and CEO of Element, the the company behind the Matrix protocol, which deines a "chat" and collaboration protocol that enables federation across Slack, Rocket.Chat, Element, and many other implementations. The post Episode 62: Amandine Le Pape, Element CO-Founder / COO, Messaging and Collaboration first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Jun 08, 2023•25 min
Intro Mike Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 61, with guest Nauren Batjargal, Co-Founder and COO of Erxes, a firm based in Mongolia that produces an open-source CRM and Customer Experience Platform. It is the first crowdfunded startup I’ve interviewed in the series. So,... The post Episode 61: Interview with Nauren Batjargal, Co-Founder & COO of Erxes, a Leading Open -Source Customer Experience Platform first appeared on Op...
Jun 04, 2023•14 min
Intro Michael: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 60 with guest, Antti Karjalainen, a co-founder and CEO of RoboCorp. RoboCorp is a vendor in the RPA or Robotic Process Automation software market. It’s a type of software that allows businesses to automate repetitive and routine tasks... The post Episode 60 – Robotic Process Automation with Antti Karjalainen, Founder / CEO of RoboCorp first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Jan 31, 2023•25 min
Intro Michael Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs episode 59, with guest Igor Farinic, Co-founder and CEO of Evolveum. For those of you who don’t know Evolveum, it’s a European company based in Slovakia that specializes in Identity Management and Governance. This kind of software is used by Enterprises to provision and manage... The post Episode 59 – Igor Farinic, Evolveum: Open -Source Software Vendor in the Identity Management and Governance Space first appeared on Open Source...
Jan 22, 2023•17 min
Intro Michael: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 58, an interview with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp, the company behind the Uber successful open-source projects Terraform and Vault. In addition to writing one of the pillars of cloud infrastructure with over 100 million... The post Episode 58: Cloud Infrastructure Automation Platform with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder & CTO of HashiCorp first appeared on Open Source Underd...
Sep 28, 2022•34 min
Tokenizing the FOSS package ecosystem. The post Episode 57 – Tokenizing the FOSS Package Ecosystem, with Max Howell, Founder of Tea.xyz first appeared on Open Source Underdogs .
Aug 03, 2022•33 min
Intro Mike Schwartz: Federico, welcome to the podcast! Federico Kunze Küllmer: Hey, Mike, thanks for having me today! Background Mike Schwartz: Before we dive into Evmos, tell us a little bit about your journey how’d you get here? Federico Kunze Küllmer: So, I started in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering in Chile. I did a semester... The post Episode 56 – Connecting Web3 Blockchains, Federico Kunze Küllmer, Co-Founder of EVMOS first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Jun 06, 2022•40 min
Intro Mike Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is Episode 55, with Miguel Valdés Faura, CEO and Co-Founder of Bonitasoft. Not every tech company follows the same trajectory to success. Hypergrowth is great if your market supports it, but the world of infrastructure software is diverse, and... The post Episode 55 – Miguel Valdés Faura, CEO and Co-Founder of Bonitasoft first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Dec 02, 2020•29 min
Intro Mike: Hello, and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is the episode 54, with Justin Borgman, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Starburst, the company behind the Presto Data Access Project. Before we get started, I have a quick request – we all want to help open-source founders and startups.... The post Episode 54: Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst, the Company Behind the Presto Project first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Oct 27, 2020
Intro Mike: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 53, with Rajoshi Ghosh, co-founder of Hasura, a relatively young startup, using GraphQL to connect Enterprise data. I’m happy to report that Rajoshi is the first Indian national we’ve had as a guest on the podcast, a... The post Episode 53: Rajoshi Ghosh, Co-Founder of Hasura, Controlling Access to Data with GraphQL first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Oct 12, 2020•29 min
Intro Michael Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I am your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 52 with Melissa Di Donato, CEO of SUSE. SUSE really needs no introduction except to say that as one of the oldest open-source companies in the industry, it maybe has more traction than most people... The post Episode 52: Melissa Di Donato, CEO of SUSE first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Aug 25, 2020
Interview with Cornelia Davis, CTO of Weaveworks, a leader in the cloud native infrastructure open source software ecosystem. The post Episode 51: Cloud Native Agility, Reliability and Stability with Weaveworks CTO Cornelia Davis first appeared on Open Source Underdogs .
Aug 03, 2020
Intro Mike Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 50 with Kathryn Erickson who helps lead open-source strategy at DataStax. Founded in 2010 and currently employing about 500 people, DataStax was one of the first and most successful companies in the Apache Cassandra big data Ecosystem.... The post Episode 50: DataStax NoSQL solutions built on Apache Cassandra with Kathryn Erickson, Open Source and Ecosystem Strategy first appeared o...
Jul 07, 2020
Intro Mike Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 49 with Martin Buhr, CEO of Tyk. API Management is a hyper-competitive market–there are commercial, open-source and SaaS products from which to choose. This makes Tyk’s success even more impressive. I think they’ve done a lot of... The post Episode 49: Open Source API Management with Martin Buhr, Founder / CEO of Tyk first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Jun 23, 2020
Intro Michael Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 48 with Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Gravitational.This episode, it’s a little longer than most, clocking in closer to 45 minutes. That’s definitely because Ev has such a broad breadth of technical and business experience, we probably... The post Episode 48: Zero Trust Security and Packaging with Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Gravitational first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Jun 09, 2020
Intro Michael Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host Michael Schwartz, and this is episode 47 with Tracy Miranda, Director of Open-Source Community at CloudBees. CloudBees is a company behind Jenkins, the famed project, which is used to automate building, testing and deploying software. Many commercial and open-source projects use Jenkins... The post Episode 47: Jenkins Software Delivery Automation and Management with Tracy Miranda, Director of Open Source Community ...
May 27, 2020
Intro Mike Schwartz: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 46 with Joe Duffy, Founder and CEO of Pulumi. Pulumi is a platform that lets organizations manage infrastructure in the cloud of their choice, using the coding platform of their choice. It’s delivered as either a cloud... The post Episode 46: Create, Deploy, and Manage Modern Cloud Software – Pulumi, with Joe Duffy, Founder / CEO first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
May 05, 2020
Episode 45 of the Open Source Underdogs Podcast: An interview with Tracy Ragan, CEO and Co-Founder of Deployhub. The post Episode 45: Continuous Deployment with Tracy Ragan, Creator and CEO of DeployHub first appeared on Open Source Underdogs .
Apr 28, 2020
Intro Mike: Hello, and welcome to Open Source Underdogs. I’m your host, Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 44 with Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO of Puppet. Yvonne is the third CEO of Puppet. Luke Kanies was the founder, we interviewed him in the episode 22. Sanjay Mirchandani succeeded him, and Yvonne took over from Sanjay in... The post Episode 44: Devops, Security, & Cloud Automation Puppet with Yvonne Wassenaar, Chief Executive Officer first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Apr 13, 2020
Intro Mike: Hello, and welcome to Open Source Underdogs, the first podcast recorded in 2020. I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 43 with Kris Nova, a Chief Open-Source Advocate at Sysdig. Kris, who also goes by Nova, has contributed to Kubernetes and several other open-source successful software projects and startups. She’s currently... The post Episode 43: Native-Cloud Visibility and Security With Kris Nova, Chief Open Source Advocate at Sysdig first appeared on Open Source Underdo...
Mar 24, 2020
Ed Boyajian, CEO joined EnterpriseDB and helped it pivot from a small organization, to one of the leading Postgres database companies. The company has figured out how to run a profitable business, while embracing and respecting the community and open development process that has formed around Postres for more then two decades. The post Episode 42: EnterpriseDB, Collaborating with the community to make Postgres enterprise ready, with Ed Boyajian, CEO first appeared on Open Source Underdogs ....
Jan 23, 2020
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-Founder of Apollo GraphQL, says you don't get to pick your business model, you get to pick your problem. As part of the team who authored one of the most popular monolithic JavaScript rapid application development frameworks, MeteorJS, Geoff describes how they applied their experience to address an even bigger challenge--how to build more flexible backend data services. The post Episode 41: Apollo GraphQL, revolutionizing how developers write modern applications, with G...
Dec 30, 2019
