From developer to CTO to having your own startup with Allard Buijze

How do you develop a side project and transform it into your own startup?

It is the dream of many software engineers to develop something, maybe as a side project, and then see that project gain traction. It gets adopted, downloaded a bunch of times, and maybe you even get to speak on it during conventions.

For our guest today this has happened, and many more things since then as well. He built a framework which enables teams to develop applications using Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS.

This framework lead to the founding of a new company, AxonIQ in 2017, and with it a whole end-to-end development and infrastructure platform for smoothly evolving Event-Driven Microservices focused on CQRS and Event Sourcing.

Joining us today is Allard Buijze, CTO and founder of AxonIQ.

• What enabled him to take his side project and make it into a company?
• What challenges have he faced and how did he tackle them?
• What advice does he have for people looking to change their idea into reality and making it into a successful startup?

Find out how Allard went from developing something during his spare time, to becoming a CTO and eventually spinning off a brand new company on this episode of Roasting Marshmallows!