How & When To Raise Money

About this episode

Cory O'Daniel discusses the future of cloud operations and best practices for deploying secure cloud infrastructure.

Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and Co-Founder at Massdriver , a company that helps to improve the developer experience of cloud operations, offering self-service capabilities along with governance and guardrails to developers. A seasoned expert in DevTools, SRE, and platform engineering , Cory has built startups and managed cloud operations for over 20 years. Cory is also the creator of Bonny , an Elixir-based Kubernetes operator framework. Everyone, from Systems Engineers to SaaS found ers , from CTOs and CEOs to VCs , needs to hear what Cory has to share about the future of the cloud and how to deploy secure, best-practice cloud infrastructure! Mass Driver - https://www.massdriver.cloud/ Ishu Singh - https://ishusingh.com/

People in this episode

Host: Ishu Singh

Guest: Cory O'Daniel

Topics covered

• fundraising
• cloud operations
• developer experience
• startup management
• DevTools
• platform engineering

Keywords

• fundraising
• cloud infrastructure
• developer experience
• SRE
• platform engineering
• startups
• DevTools

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Massdriver, Bonny

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