Our guest this week has a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Chris White was the first hire and is now CTO of the rapidly growing company, Prefect. Prefect is an open-source workflow management system. Through its cloud API, it allows its users to own their execution environment.
Our guest this week has a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Chris White was the first hire and is now CTO of the rapidly growing company, Prefect.
Prefect is an open-source workflow management system. Through its cloud API, it allows its users to own their execution environment.
Chris shares many exciting insights into the beginnings of a startup. The earlier the stage of a startup, the more landscape you have to define your position. "I like taking bets on myself, and going to a startup is the fundamental bet that I can do something here and turn this into a valuable, interesting tool for developers to use."
Check out Prefect’s careers page to learn more about open positions.
If you excel at and enjoy math but are unsure of its practicality, you'll want to give this episode a listen. Chris relates several usage cases of math to software and programming.
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