Developer experience & building a developer-first company w/ Sagar Batchu @ Speakeasy

Episode notes

We talk with Sagar Batchu (Co-Founder @ Speakeasy) about his transition from engineering leader to founder, what it means to be a devex company, how he navigated finding a co-founder, and more! Co-hosted by Emma Tang & Roger Luo @ ELC Angels, we also cover shipping a product before funding and the ensuing pivots, building a developer-led startup, and attracting top talent for early-day hires. ABOUT SAGAR BATCHU Sagar ( @sagar_batchu ) is a hands-on engineer leader focused on developer and data infrastructure. Previously he was Director of Engineering at LiveRamp. As the first engineering hire for LiveRamp in London he scaled the team to 50+ over a few years and established the group as a center for privacy and analytics. Sagar enjoy's building teams from scratch, focusing on the strategic impact of technical choices and working at the cross section of engineering, product and corp dev. He's currently CEO and co-founder of a new startup in the developer infrastructure space. Sagar loves dev tools and chicory in his coffee! "As an engineer, one of the things that you can rely on the most in the early days is this ability to prototype super quickly.

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