Inside the Startup: Northwind Labs
How an eleven-person team ships infrastructure used by thousands of engineers
Northwind Labs occupies two rooms in Singapore and serves engineering teams in forty countries.\n\nThere are eleven people. Nobody carries the title product manager.\n\n## The operating model\n\nEvery engineer owns a surface end to end, including support. The founders argue this is the only way to keep a small team honest about complexity.
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Sosys Rahman
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Daniel Osei
Co-founder & CTO, Northwind Labs
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Northwind Labs
Artificial Intelligence · Singapore
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