Episode 47: BuildDirect

Drew and James open with some news about the future of the show. Be sure to listen up! There is also a chat about online learning resources. We also cover a little be of the S.O.L.I.D principles. Our guest this week is Klaus Salchner VP of Engineering at BuildDirect.

The guest this week is Klaus Salchner, the VP of Engineering at BuildDirect. If you don't know about BuildDirect, don’t worry. We cover a ton of topics in this episode. We go over the companies growth, the original concept, who the customers are, what challenges they face, as well as some of the cool technology behind the scenes.

Show Links

• golang course

Interview Links

• BuildDirect


• BuildDirect Careers


• Klaus on LinkedIn or Twitter

Meetups for the week of October 10th

Monday 10th (Thanksgiving)

• Git Help! & 0-Tech (Decentral, 436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Tuesday 11th

• Open Coffee (Nelson the Seagull 315 Carrall Street) 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM


• Djangovan (Mobify, #300 - 948 Homer) 6:00 PM


• Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings) 6:00 PM


• Brainstation Vancouver (1110 Hamilton) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Wednesday 12th

• Vancouver Linux Desktop (Decentral, 436 W Pender) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• Tech Talent Meetup (BC Tech Innovation Hub 887 Great Northern Way) 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM


• Pluralsight Study Group (PNI 100 - 425 Carrall St) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• .Net User Group of BC (Microsoft, 1100-1111 West Georgia) 5:45 PM to 8:00 PM


• Learn Data Science (SFU Venture Labs, 555 W Hastings St #1200) 6:00 PM


• Vancouver Amazon Web Services Users Group (TriNimbus, Suite 280 - 1401 West 8th) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Style & Class (Microsoft Canada, 725 Granville) 6:30 PM


• VanBUG (SFU Harbor Centre, 515 West Hastings) 7:00 PM

Thursday 13th

• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (Decentral Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM


• Big Data University Meetup (tba) 5:30 PM


• Mainland Advanced Security Meetup (Central City, 871 Beatty) 6:00 PM


• CodeCore Demo Day (CodeCore 142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday 14th

• SpringU Demo Day (Spring Basement - 211 East Georgia St) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Saturday 15th

• DCTRL (hackathon) (DCTRL, Pender) 12:00 PM to 11:45 PM

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect