The Serverless Insurance Startup with Adithya Reddy

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 10 a.m.

Adithya Reddy is a software developer at Branch Insurance, a serverless insurance startup that sells bundled home and auto insurance products. In this role, he does it all\u2014web, mobile, and backend architecture. After being hired as the company\u2019s first frontend developer, Adithya expanded across the stack. Adithya graduated from Visvesvaraya Technological University with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science in 2018.\n\nJoin Corey and Adithya as they discuss what it\u2019s like to build a startup that operates in a heavily regulated industry on serverless architecture, Adithya\u2019s experience as being hired as the first developer at Branch Insurance, how serverless helps remove all sorts of tasks from the average developer\u2019s plate and reduces the barrier of entry, how going serverless locks you into the AWS ecosystem at least for the near term and why that\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing, why the Branch Insurance team uses CloudFormation instead of Terraform, and more.