The Geek Whisperers have the pleasure to talk a little tech with Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO of Coho Data. He has a story of academics, startups, open source, enterprise IT and work/life balance.
What path is right for you? How is your career effected by academic pursuits?
We have more open conversation than conclusion. Here are some of the topics:
- From University to startup
- Learning from a ton of mistakes
- Starting XenSource and the Xen hypervisor
- Being a Professor at University of Vancouver British Columbia
- The difficulty of seeing what you fixed (not just what is left to do)
- Andy’s research (full list here)
- Book smarts vs street smart in IT
- Going back and forth between Academics and Enterprise IT
- The continued innovation coming from each
- To open source or not in academia
- The challenge of creating code for production
- Being part of the marketing strategy
- The gravitational pull to challenging problems
- John and Matt sign up to be Andy’s student next year, building the future of type-safe multi-dimensional key/value stores
You can follow Andy on Twitter and read some of his more recent work on Coho Data’s blog.
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