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Christine Spang's Open Source Journey from Teen OSS Contributor to CTO of Nylas

Christine Spang's Open Source Journey from Teen OSS Contributor to CTO of Nylas

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Christine Spang started her tech journey contributing to Debian while still a teenager. She went on to MIT, then worked on Ksplice, helping the Linux kernel stay up-to-date without rebooting. From there working as a Principal Developer at Oracle, Christine when on to co-found Nylas where she's currently the CTO. Scott talks to Christine about her experience, her thoughts on going from Dev to CTO, leading teams, and their product suite at Nylas.

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