The Infra Pod

How Github grew from 0 to millions of developers, and now bringing that to Devops! (Chat with Ted, ex-CTO of Github)

The Infra Pod

Show Notes

Ian and Tim sat down with Ted Nyman (ex-CTO of Github, CEO of Cased) to chat about how it feels like to be part of the early days of Github, how did it made its way from a little known project to what it became today. We also discussed about Ted's new startup Cased and how it's transforming Devops as well.

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