Tempest’s Plan To Bring Order To Software Engineering Chaos
Summary
It’s the dirty secret of many large companies today: in a world where every business is betting on technology, they have recruited thousands of software engineers to develop the products and services of the future – but they haven’t built systems and infrastructure to support them properly. “These are creative people who are desperate to get on with building the products and features that excite them but are being stopped in their tracks by endless delays, provisioning issues and other roadblocks.” The effects on businesses are equally dispiriting. The second part of the proposition is a developer experience platform, where the goal is to enable engineers to manage their workflows more effectively, from code design through to deployment. Kouot’s co-founders are Lukasz Jagiello and Eric Skram – the three worked together to launch a previous business, Fleetsmith, which they sold to Apple, joining the tech giant as part of the deal. “We believe the Tempest team is creating a best-in-class developer experience.” Investor Jason Chan adds: “In my experience, the most effective organisations provide developers with clear, secure pathways – what we now call paved roads – which is something we introduced early on in my career at Netflix; Tempest makes it easy to implement those pathways, removing the friction that slows down teams and putting security and compliance on autopilot.” The company doesnt have the market to itself.