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S9 E34: From Managing Infrastructure at Twilio to Defining the Internal Developer Portal: Driving Context-Aware Software Governance with Anish Dhar, Co-Founder & CEO of Cortex
Jul 30, 2024 · Season 9 · Episode 34 · 25 min
Prevent your company from "microservices gone wrong"
Anish Dhar grew up in the Bay Area, but now is located in New York. He felt lucky to be surrounded by technology, being in the Bay Area and having his Dad as a software engineer. His earliest exposure to tech was hacking his Wii - and at that point he was hooked. He eventually joined Uber and experienced many of the problems he is solving today. Outside of tech, he enjoys tennis and playing piano. He loves making music and attending shows to hear other artists, in particular EDM.
While he was at Uber, Anish noticed that the company was a prime example of microservices gone wrong. Developers were going outside of standards building services, not documenting them properly. He realized that every company he talked to had the problem of service cataloguing, and he felt confident to apply to take the challenge on and apply to YC.
This is the creation story of Cortex.
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