S6 Bonus: When Systems Crash: Engineering Facebook-Scale Incident Management & Exiting to PagerDuty with John Egan

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Mar 28, 2022 · 43m

John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the idea of building robots - it was too slow for him. While he was working at Harvard, he was watching the early days Y Combinator, and told his wife that there was a movement going on, and they should move to be a part of it. Startups weren't common then, so it was a risky move - but John found himself excited about being a part of it. Eventually they did make the move, created a file transfer company, and ended up getting acquired by Facebook. Outside of tech, he's married, with a 4 year old son…