Edward Thomson is a fantastic software engineer, he’s currently the maintainer of libgit2: a pure C implementation of the git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API. libgit2 powers GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and many other products.
Ed is also a product manager at Vercel where he leads the compute, storage, and network products.
We talked about building libgit2, the challenges of open source, the most difficult technical challenged Ed has worked on, edge computing and more...
I say it about all my guests, because it was true and it still is. This is an episode you don’t want to miss.
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