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S10 E15: Merging Code-First End-to-End Testing with Modern Synthetics and Agentic Root-Cause Analysis with Hannes Lenke, Co-Founder & CEO of Checkly
Jan 14, 2025 · Season 10 · Episode 15 · 21 min
Monitoring as Code
Hannes Lenke was born in East Germany. He started tinkering with computers at an early age, and became interested in making games at the age of 10. Once the browsers came out, he quickly dove into the world of web development. He also has a background in trading stocks, which he started when he was 14, along with software development consulting for enterprise. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 daughters. He lives in a small town close to Berlin, and enjoys running, rowing, and cooking out on his grill.
In 2010, Hannes founded a startup centered around testing. Post exit, he noticed that more and more businesses were using end to end testing... AND, the world was changing toward devops and observability. He decided that a new tool needed to be made along the lines of synthetic monitoring.
This is the creation story of Checkly.
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