The 'C' In COSS: Engineer → Entrepreneur & Back Again

The Craft Of Open Source

Ben Rometsch chats with Kyle Johnson, co-founder of Flagsmith, about their 11-year journey together in the commercial open-source software (COSS) space. He talks about his transition from engineering to entrepreneur and back again by detailing how he navigated the evolution of his career. Kyle discusses how they have developed feature flagging as a response to the limitations of existing solutions. He also shares the proudest moments of his professional life, from managing a global remote team to offering advice to open-source project creators in creating customer-centric applications.