Posts by Noah Callaway

Noah Callaway

Founding Partner

For over 10 years, Noah has been the technical backbone of the Apsis engineering team. In stark contrast to his cofounder, Noah’s history is about as textbook as it gets: CS classes at the University of Oregon while still in high school, BS from the University of Washington with specialization in physics and computer science, a stint at Microsoft, a tour at Amazon, and for the last decade plus, serving as Apsis’s lead engineer and architect. Noah’s drive for building the technically correct solution is balanced by his decade of experience running Apsis Labs, where his focus is on outcome-driven-development: finding the solution that delivers 90% of the value at 10% of the effort.

Outside of work, you’ll find Noah with his wife, dog, and two young children; or you’ll find him working, but this time on a new GUI layout engine in Rust or perhaps trying to get his video drivers to work correctly — he runs Linux after all.

Read the Source: Encryption Draft Bill

In the wake of the San Bernadino iPhone controversy the Senate Intelligence Committee has produced a draft bill that would force Apple and other software companies to decrypt data for the government when…

Communicating Software Estimates

Communication is hard. It’s also extremely important. We’re lucky that in the field of software development miscommunication tends to lead to project delays instead of loss of life. Estimates are also hard. It’s challenging to produce accurate estimates in the first place, but even after a good estimate has been produced, comes the challenging work of communicating the estimates to interested parties.

Work Sustainably

When we started Apsis Labs we never found it necessary to separate our values as founders from the values of the company. We did what felt right, and the company was an extension of ourselves. Its values were our values, and that worked for us. In our first year we tackled the usual early-stage…