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LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 4 Episode 24 - Meatballs, Manifolds, and Massive InvestmentsIn Season 4, Episode 24, Karl and Jon are joined by Randall Hunt, CTO of Caylent, for a dynamic and insightful conversation that blends cutting-edge cloud developments with a dash of humor. They dive into some of the latest updates from AWS, including the launch of on-demand key rotation for imported keys via AWS Key Management Service, new application layer 7 DDoS protection for customers using AWS Web Application Firewall and AWS Shield Advanced, and enhanced CloudTrail logging for Amazon S3’s delete objects API, which offers improved auditability and operational visibility. The discussion also explores Amazon’s ambitious investment plans in glob...2025-06-1738 min
AWS for Software Companies PodcastEp098: From BI to Gen AI: A CTO's Journey Through Data EvolutionAsh Pembroke, Portfolio CTO of Caylent, discusses the critical balance of data accuracy in the era of Gen AI for the benefit of boosting innovation.Topics Include:Ash Pembroke, Portfolio CTO of Caylent, self-identifies as a "recovering data scientist."Caylent is an AWS native services company.Data quality remains an issue despite Gen AI.Contrasts legalism versus mysticism in data quality.Legalism: accurate data when applications need it.Mysticism: insights that help decision-making.Traditional data foundations approach is being challenged weekly.Gen AI developments force rethinking of solution architectures.Teams share solutions through giant Slack threads...2025-05-0712 min
Career Hack by Scalis.aiHow to Land the Right Job with Kevin Johnson | Career Hack 28In this episode of Career Hack, Brandon Amoroso sits down with Kevin Johnson, Senior Talent Recruiter at Caylent, to explore the dynamic world of recruitment and career growth. With over 25 years of experience and a journey through explosive company growth, Kevin shares invaluable insights on building talent pipelines, leveraging AI in hiring, and the importance of networking for job seekers. Tune in to discover actionable strategies to stand out in today’s job market!Key topics:📈 How to scale hiring during explosive company growth🤝 Why networking and referrals are essential for land...2025-01-2837 min
Cloud ControlEp. 32 It’s Not Quite Rocket Science: Randall Hunt’s journey from NASA to Open SourceToday, Shon speaks with Randall Hunt, CTO of Caylent. From his unconventional journey starting as a NASA physicist to becoming a key player in MongoDB's early days and later at AWS, Hunt shares invaluable insights on cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and the future of tech leadership. This episode explores everything from maintaining developer passion after decades in tech to practical advice for newcomers, while offering exclusive insider perspectives on the changing landscape of cloud providers. Subscribe to Cloud Control for the latest in CloudOps from industry leaders. 2024-12-0544 min
The Front PorchThe #IC24 Innovation PanelJames Morley, Point of Rental's SVP of Product Development, hosts our #IC24 innovation panel. Panelists Mark Olsen from Caylent, Glenn Holland from AWS, and Evan Fort and Collin Pike from Point of Rental discuss creating a culture of innovation, leveraging AI and telematics, and overcoming traditional business challenges. (03:26) - Sustaining Innovation and Prioritization
(05:23) - Customer-Centric Innovation
(12:50) - AI and Data-Driven Decisions
(23:43) - Customer Self-Service and Future Directions
(26:17) - Future of Payments: Integrating New Solutions
(26:53) - Generative AI: Skepticism and Potential
(27:55) - Practical Applications of Generative AI
(30:11) - Generative AI in Business: Efficiency and Caution
(31:42) - Generative A...2024-11-1550 min
Point of Rental PodcastsFront Porch: The #IC24 Innovation PanelJames Morley, Point of Rental's SVP of Product Development, hosts our #IC24 innovation panel. Panelists Mark Olsen from Caylent, Glenn Holland from AWS, and Evan Fort and Collin Pike from Point of Rental discuss creating a culture of innovation, leveraging AI and telematics, and overcoming traditional business challenges. (03:26) - Sustaining Innovation and Prioritization
(05:23) - Customer-Centric Innovation
(12:50) - AI and Data-Driven Decisions
(23:43) - Customer Self-Service and Future Directions
(26:17) - Future of Payments: Integrating New Solutions
(26:53) - Generative AI: Skepticism and Potential
(27:55) - Practical Applications of Generative AI
(30:11) - Generative AI in Business: Efficiency and Caution
(31:42) - Generative A...2024-11-1550 min
The Cloud GambitNavigating Community, Open Source, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with Tim BanksSend us a textIn this episode, we dive deep into the multifaceted world of Tim Banks, a Staff Solutions Architect at Caylent. Tim shares his remarkable journey from the US Marine Corps to becoming a prominent voice in the tech community. We explore the parallels between his experiences in tech, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and community building, uncovering valuable insights on personal growth, professional development, and the state of open source. Whether you're a seasoned tech professional, a community organizer, or someone looking to break into the industry, this episode offers valuable insights on navigating the complex landscape...2024-09-2459 min
Neural NebulAIAI BenchmarksIn this episode, Caylent’s Brian Tarbox and Kenneth Henrichs tomorrow at 9am PST share how AI Benchmarks can help you find the most economical, efficient, and effective models for your business needs! They’ll explore key differences between GenAI models, evaluation tools, and more.
Produced by Aman Wadhwa. Edited by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit our website to find out more about us: www.caylent.com2024-06-1144 min
Screaming in the CloudGenerative AI, Tech Innovations, & Evolving Perspectives with Randall HuntIn this episode, we chat with Randall Hunt, the VP of Technology at Caylent, about the world of generative AI and how it's changing industries. Randall talks about his journey from being an AWS critic to leading tech projects at Caylent. He shares cool insights into the latest tech innovations, the challenges and opportunities in AI, and his vision for the future. Randall also explains how AI is used in healthcare, finance, and more, and gives advice for those interested in tech. Show Highlights: (00:00) - Introduction (00:28) - Randall talks abo...2024-05-2142 min
Neural NebulAILeveraging Data Inside of AIIn this episode, Caylent’s Brian Tarbox, Khobaib Zaamout, and Kenneth Henrichs as they dissect the distinctions between Analytical AI and GenAI, uncover the unique data needs, share best practices for data management, and tackle the challenge of bias mitigation.
Produced by Aman Wadhwa. Edited by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit our website to find out more about us: www.caylent.com2024-04-0943 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechInspiring InclusionIn this episode, our panel of guests including, Chanelle Coleman, Cassie Knutti, and Janaki Sathish, and host Lucila Rondina, dive into the theme of Inspiring Inclusion. From sharing personal journeys in tech to offering invaluable advice, they explore the importance of diversity, navigating challenges, and fostering inclusivity.
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Produced by Aman Wadhwa. Edited by Cynthia Lam. Artwork by Samanta-Maria de Souza. Music by Ashot-Danielyan-Composer from Pixabay.2024-03-2539 min
Neural NebulAIRetrieval Augmented GenerationIn this episode, Caylent’s Randall Hunt and Clayton Davis learn about the value of RAG for contextual optimization and understand use cases where RAG stands out amongst other techniques to improve your LLM's capabilities.
Produced by Aman Wadhwa. Edited by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit our website to find out more about us: www.caylent.com2024-02-2947 min
Neural NebulAIPre-AI Data Modernization & EnablementIn this episode, Caylent’s Khobaib Zaamout, Kenneth Henrichs, and Brian Tarbox delve into building a data-driven company and culture, understanding modern data workloads, and leveraging a contemporary data strategy to enhance your AI journey. They also provide valuable insights on navigating technology shifts and avoiding common pitfalls by partnering with experts like Caylent.
Produced by Aman Wadhwa. Edited by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit our website to find out more about us: www.caylent.com2024-02-0848 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechRosie Seth, Head of Managed Services Partners, Canada at AWSIn this episode, Valerie Henderson, Caylent’s President & CRO, is joined by Rosie Seth, Head of Managed Services Partners, Canada at Amazon Web Services! Reflecting on her career journey across technology giants like IBM and AWS, Rosie shares how her early life experiences shaped her strength and resilience, the invaluable lessons she's gained from mentors, and her adept navigation of career biases.
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Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Artwork by Samanta-Maria de Souza. Music by As...2024-01-191h 06
The Basement Programmer PodcastCognitive Psychology and Generative AI with Brian TarboxIn this episode, I catch up with Brian Tarbox, Solutions Architect at Caylent, and AWS Hero. Brian and I talk about his background in Cognitive Psychology, artificial intelligence, and dolphins add in for good measure! We explore things like how the behaviors of LLMs are, in some ways, taking on human-like characteristics.2024-01-1557 min
Neural NebulAIPrompt EngineeringIn this episode, Caylent’s Randall Hunt and Clayton Davis dive into an informative discussion on prompt engineering, the importance of programmatic evaluation, LLM Optimization, valuable tips for prompt creation, and a demonstration of one-shot learning using Amazon Bedrock to process unstructured data.
Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit our website to find out more about us: www.caylent.com2024-01-0943 min
Neural NebulAIGenAI for EnterprisesIn our newest episode of Neural NebuIAI, Randal Hunt and special guest Amit Singh, Global Use Case Leader for GenAI Partner Acceleration at AWS, dive into Amit's expertise around AWS's GenAI services, and his advice on approaching GenAI adoption to minimize development time and speed up ROI. You’ll also hear about important GenAI use cases Caylent is helping enterprises develop today as well as the trajectory of development and economic trends around GenAI tools.
Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. Vi...2023-11-1444 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechConflict Resolution Part 2: How to Prevent EscalationIn the second installment of our Conflict Resolution series, our guests, Lisa Cohrs, Jennifer Kaiser, Carolina Peguet, and host Jazmine Romero will discuss how you can prevent conflict from escalating, how workplace disagreements can affect your relationships with your colleagues, and the effect a remote workplace can have on conflict.
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Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Artwork by Samanta-Maria de Souza. Music by Ashot-Danielyan-Composer from Pixabay.
2023-10-3122 min
Neural NebulAIAI Foundation ModelsTo understand how Generative AI works, we must first understand AI #FoundationModels, which are neural networks trained on huge datasets that can be used to create a plethora of use case specific AI solutions.
In this episode of Neural NebulAI, Randall Hunt, Brian Tarbox, and special guest, Suraj Subramanian, Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, dive into foundation models, from development to training and fine-tuning. They also discuss how different development strategies can introduce challenges such as hallucinations and catastrophic forgetting, and how new models such as Llama 2 are using interesting reward modelling strategies to improve response accuracy...2023-10-2446 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechConflict Resolution Part 1: Conflict in the WorkplaceConflict is bound to arise in a workplace, but how do you successfully resolve it in a manner that’s both effective and respectful? In Part 1 of this two-part episode, Caylent’s Lisa Cohrs, Jennifer Kaiser, Carolina Peguet, and host Jazmine Romero discuss conflicts that emerge in a workplace, factors that lead to conflicts, and how to effectively resolve disagreements.
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Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Artwork by Samanta-Maria de Souza. Music by Ashot-Danielyan-Composer from Pixabay.2023-10-1935 min
Neural NebulAIHumans & AIMuch like the internet, Generative AI holds the potential to revolutionize our world and our lifestyles, which prompts the question, how will humans evolve and learn to work alongside AI? In this installment of Neural NebulAI, Randall Hunt and Brian Tarbox delve into the evolution of AI, its pitfalls, its capacity to enhance human tasks, and the potential for it to assume human roles, along with their experiences with GenAI tools such as CodeWhisperer and Bedrock. Additionally, they discuss AI’s role in corporate organizational structure & governance shifts and explore how the average person will collaborate with AI.
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Neural NebulAIAI Unit EconomicsIn this episode of Neural NebulAI, Randall Hunt and Mark Olson discuss AI Unit economics. Learn about the costs of investing into AI model development from training to inference, as well the ROI you can expect in terms of both customer value, and revenue generation. They also share tactics to save operational costs and the importance of monitoring investment over time.
Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
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2023-09-2642 min
Neural NebulAIUnwrapping AI & GenAIIn this pisode of Neural NebulAI, Kenneth Henrichs and Brian Tarbox unwrap the various types of AI, and dive into potential use cases across GenAI, process automation, computer vision, and more! They also discuss how organizations can optimize their data for analytics and intelligence.
Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
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2023-09-1947 min
Neural NebulAIAI EthicsFor our very first episode, we are joined by Emily Lewis-Pinnell, Caylent’s VP of Engineering, and Brian Tarbox, a Principal Solutions Architect at Caylent and an Amazon Community Hero and Alexa Champion. They dive into AI’s treatment of biased training data, the ethicality of decisions made with AI, as well as considerations around AI regulation.
Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Music by Larry Poppinz.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit our website to find out more about us.2023-09-0132 min
Real World Serverless with theburningmonk#80: Is AWS Bedrock the OpenAI killer, with Randall HuntIn this episode, I spoke with Randall Hunt, who's the VP of Cloud Strategy and Innovation at Caylent and had previously worked at Vendia, Facebook AI, AWS and SpaceX.We talked about AWS Bedrock, what is it and how it works and saw a demo of a simple AI application built with Bedrock and LangChain. Randall explained the advantages of using Bedrock and why tales of AWS's supposedly weakness in AI are far-fetched.I had a lot of fun talking to Randall and learnt a lot from the conversation and I hope you will too...2023-08-1658 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechRuth McElroy, Global IT Senior Director of Strategy and Transformation at BCGIn this episode of Breaking Through the Cloud, we talk to Ruth McElroy, Global IT Senior Director of Strategy and Transformation at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a proven leader with a track record of driving results. Sharing the mic with Valerie Henderson, President & CRO at Caylent, Ruth dives into her career journey and topics such as work-life balance, the influential role of mentors in careers, the practice of reverse mentoring, and what the future holds for BCG.
Follow Caylent on Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube. Visit our website to find out more about us: https://caylent.com/...2023-08-1047 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechSherry Karamdashti, GM of North America Startups at AWSIn this episode of Breaking Through the Cloud, we talk to Sherry Karamdashti, General Manager of North America Startups at AWS and a deeply respected leader of leaders in tech. Sharing the platform with Valerie Henderson, President & CRO at Caylent, Sherry dives into her career journey, experiencing AWS in its early years, working with start-ups, leading talented teams on challenging and rewarding initiatives, as well as pursuing new career directions and embracing change.
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Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Pro...2023-07-0649 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechHow to NegotiateIn this episode of Breaking Through the Cloud, we are joined by Valerie Henderson, Caylent’s President and CRO, Emily Lewis-Pinnell, Caylent’s VP of Engineering, and host Lucila Rondina, a Senior Talent Recruiter at Caylent. Our guests discuss their personal experiences in negotiating throughout their careers, the challenges women tend to face when negotiating, and offer some tips and best practices to improve your chances of success.
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Edited by Aman Wadhwa. Produced by Cynthia Lam. Artwork by Samanta-Maria de Souza...2023-05-3152 min
Breaking Through The Cloud: Women In TechEmbracing EquityFor our first episode, let’s dig deeper into the concept of equity, and why understanding it is so vital to embracing and fostering diversity and inclusivity, especially in the technology industry. Listen to a panel of Cayliens who share their inspiring journeys as women in tech. They discuss how they navigated through deficiencies in gender equality in the past and how they are fuelling equity in the workplace today, setting a precedent for the next generation of diverse talent.
Artwork by Samanta-Maria de Souza, Music by Ashot-Danielyan-Composer from Pixabay.
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The Leadership MindNew Age Leadership Strategies to Reinvent How You Lead with James AdamsIn today’s episode, Massimo is joined by James Adams. James has been an engineer and builder all of his life. James first learned to code when he was five years old. After graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, he studied Computational Mathematics at Arizona State University. He has been in IT professionally for 22 years. James spent half of my career developing large, distributed web applications, primarily in Java. After rising through the ranks as an engineer, architect, team lead and manager, he pivoted to full-time consulting and moved his focus to cloud infrastructure. The second ha...2022-10-2438 min
Jon Myer PodcastEp#62 Mission: Lead Cloud Solutions and Evangelism with Mr. HuntWhat does SpaceX, AWS, MongoDB, NASA or even Facebook have in common? Wait, I know there is a joke in there somewhere… or what’s the punchline?
That’s right, our next guest has led software and developer relations teams at all of them and is highly experienced in the developer community. Joining us today is Randall Hunt, VP of Cloud Strategy and solutions at Caylent and developer experience.2022-05-0234 min
Screaming in the CloudCaylent: From Etymology to Engineering with Randall HuntAbout RandallRandall Hunt, VP of Cloud Strategy and Solutions at Caylent, is a technology leader, investor, and hands-on-keyboard coder based in Los Angeles, CA. Previously, Randall led software and developer relations teams at Facebook, SpaceX, AWS, MongoDB, and NASA. Randall spends most of his time listening to customers, building demos, writing blog posts, and mentoring junior engineers. Python and C++ are his favorite programming languages, but he begrudgingly admits that Javascript rules the world. Outside of work, Randall loves to read science fiction, advise startups, travel, and ski.Links:Caylent.com: https://caylent...2022-02-1736 min
InsideAnalysisEnterprise Innovation with Cloud MigrationHost @Eric_kavanagh will talk about migrating applications to the public cloud with Loke Tan from cloud infrastructure provider Skytap and with Mark Olson from cloud native services company, Caylent.2021-11-2352 min
Operate PodcastJP La Torre - Co-Founder & CEO of Caylent
JP La Torre is co-founder & CEO of Caylent, a managed services provider for growing software teams. We met several years ago when he was initially developing the idea. He’s a classic entrepreneur in how he came upon the idea, how he pursued it through the help of an accelerator, and how he's navigated losing a co-founder along the way, adjusting course and reaching the "survive then thrive" stage where he is today. JP is very focused on his customers and the rapid evolution of technology, and as we discuss, he helps them "accelerate their time to value...2020-12-1546 min