Open Source Startup Podcast

Developer Tooling

Episode 180: Why Kubernetes Still Needs Simplifying: The Nadrama Story

Ryan Djurovich is the Founder & CEO of Nadrama , the open source infrastructure automation platform that deploys containers instantly. In this episode, we...

August 24, 2025

Developer Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story)

Morgante Pell is the Founder of Grit , the developer tool that puts software maintenance on autopilot and was acquired by Honeycomb in April 2025. In this...

August 18, 2025

Developer Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI

Emma Burrows is Co-Founder & CTO of Portia AI , the platform to build AI agents in regulated environments. Their open source Python SDK provides a developer...

July 31, 2025

Data Tooling Security Tooling

Episode 177: RunReveal's Anti SIEM SIEM Platform (With AI That Actually Works!)

Alan Braithwaite is Co-Founder & CTO of RunReveal , the security data platform with real-time monitoring, built-in detections, and AI-powered investigations....

July 8, 2025

Developer Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 176: Why All AI Agents Will Need Cloud Sandboxes

Vasek Mlejnsky is Co-Founder & CEO of E2B , the open-source runtime for executing AI-generated code in secure cloud sandboxes. Essentially, they give AI...

June 24, 2025

Data Tooling

Episode 175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store

Roman Gershman is Co-Founder & CTO of Dragonfly , the drop-in Redis replacement for heavy data workloads that has significant performance, cost, and scale...

May 19, 2025

Developer Tooling Data Tooling

Episode 174: The SDF <> dbt Acquisition (1 + 1 = 3)

Lukas Schulte is Co-Founder & CEO of SDF Labs , the developer platform that scales SQL understanding across organizations, which was recently acquired by...

May 2, 2025

Developer Tooling

Episode 173: Feature Flagging with OpenFeature

Andrew Norris is Co-Founder & CEO of DevCycle , the leading feature flagging platform based on the OpenFeature project. OpenFeature provides a standard for...

April 14, 2025

Developer Tooling

Episode 172: How MetalBear Makes Cloud Development 100x Faster

Aviram Hassan is Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear , the cloud development platform that lets developers run local code as if it were part of their remote...

April 7, 2025

Developer Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 171: How Companies Like Block Build Viral Open Source Projects

Manik Surtani is Head of Open Source and Bradley Axen is Principal Engineer at Block. Manik was key to launching Block's Open Source Programs Office and...

April 3, 2025