DEV Community

Developer on Fire

Episode 232 | Matt Watson - Leveraging Domain Knowledge

Matt Watson talks with Dave Rael about running a business, creating valuable software, and making a culture

Stackify was founded in January 2012 by Matt Watson. Before Stackify he was the CTO of a rapidly growing enterprise software service (SaaS) provider. He noticed that agile development had caused his developers to be much more involved in day-to-day IT operations, but his team lacked the tools and server access to do it efficiently. He founded Stackify to create a suite of tools to solve this problem, which virtually every dev and dev team deals with.

Matt's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Figure out how to make somebody's life easier
  2. View software from the perspective of a user
  3. Pay attention to details

Episode source