Molding a Passion for Open Source into a Company with Andrew Rynhard

Andrew Rynhard, Founder and CTO of Sidero Labs, joins the show today to discuss his work and Sidero Labs. Sidero is a Kubernetes lifecycle management reimagined from the operating system to entire stack. Andrew has origins steeped deeply in open source, and it has become a central focus to his entire ethos and drive.

Andrew breaks down his own trajectory that lead to Sidero and the passion he leveled for the endevour from the onset. Andrew’s passion for open source served as the impetus founding the company, and he shares his love for open source and the pathways that it created for him through his career. Andrew shares Sidero Lab’s successful initial funding, the shift to it being his full-time job, and their meteoric rise.


Highlights:

  • An introduction to Andrew and Sidero Labs (00:00)

  • The early days of Sidero Labs and their current position (03:10)

  • The moment Sidero became Andrew’s primary focus and the companies journey (08:05)

  • Sidero’s focus on distributed systems (17:48)

  • The challenges of a project that is far down the stack (22:15)

  • Some final thoughts from Andrew (31:35)

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