Señors at Scale - Software Engineering & Tech Leadership · Dan Neciu

Open Source at Scale with Corbin Crutchley (TanStack Form & VP of Engineering)

·52 min·4 clips
Corbin's side project went viral on Reddit, leading a startup to track him down and offer him his first web dev job.
Corbin Crutchley discusses his journey from early coding experiences to becoming VP of engineering and a key contributor to TanStack. He shares insights on open source sustainability, managing community feedback, and the emotional challenges of maintenance, while also touching on his views on documentation, framework-agnostic design, and mental health in tech.

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A grounded look at open source strategy, hosted layers, and the tradeoffs around staying focused.

The episode follows open source strategy and the tradeoffs that come with it. It traces Corbin's path from teenage tutorials to IT work and some programming at an adult charter school, then moves into TanStack, hosted enterprise layers, and the way business demands can pull open…

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You want a candid take on open source without the usual startup gloss.

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