S5 E5: Engineering High-Concurrency Marketplaces: Handling Automated Rights and Music Licensing with Kirt Debique

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Jul 13, 2021 · 28m

Kirt Debique is originally from Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela. He came to the states to study computer engineering, at the University of Miami. On the way to attending grad school at Stanford, he did an internship at Microsoft. After being offered a full time job there, he took it - and subsequently, never made it to Stanford. He started out in a role on the OS team, but after spending 20 years at the company, he did many types of roles, including general manager over several different divisions.

He loves to play soccer, and dabbles in chess. Above all, he loves his first born son, who…