Dessy Daskalov is the co-founder and CTO of Nudge, a Toronto-based startup building a digital communications platform for deskless and frontline employees. Nudge provides employees with the information and tools they need to stay connected at work and reach organizational goals.

The goal of this project is to help new EPs deploy their Hackathon Onboarding Project with ease, and have their projects deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster. We all know that getting a project up and running in AWS and deployed on Kubernetes can be a project of its own, and we don’t want this to take away from EPs’ hackathon projects. So we had to build a solution that allows for a wide variety of backend and frontend projects to be easily deployed on our infrastructure. Our goal is to stay as close to a real-world scenario as possible and allow EPs to clone a repo and quickly deploy with minimal setup and effort to avoid the steep learning curve of many DevOps tools.

Join us: Thursday, May 13th at 11 am Pacific Time for this livestream discussion, and participate in the live Q&A at the end to ask your own questions.

I wanted to create a simple, blazing-fast “Notion-lite” that would let you make easily shareable notes and collaborate in real time, with no account required. Of course, the experience also had to be seamless between web and mobile. Thus, Sharenotes was born.

We talked to two Commit Engineers, Sim Brar and Toly Kudrevatykh, who chose to follow a management track partway into their careers, only to switch back to being independent contributors. We asked with them about the thought processes behind their decisions, what it was like managing people, and why they chose to return to the IC path.

For some, it would be a dream come true: for almost a whole week, you get to work on any project you like. You pick the tech, you choose the APIs, you define the requirements. Build whatever you want…

Commit is experimenting with making many aspects of our interviewing process asynchronous. It’s not because we’re anti-social; we believe it makes for a meaningfully better interviewing experience and helps us attract the best candidates.

We have a slack channel dedicated to books recommended by our Engineers and other team members. It’s a great source of new reads and a way to pique interest on topics we might never have thought to read about (like pirates….real ones). Here are some of our top picks, based on Slack engagement.

In our First Line of Code series, Commit co-founder Beier Cai talks to prominent tech founders and leaders building the next generation of companies, to hear about their career journeys and lessons learned from their early days.