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DevelomentorKyle Campbell – High School Dropout Turned Developer & Founder #129Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kyle CampbellKyle Campbell is a high school dropout. He is also the founder and CEO of CTO.ai, a platform that helps DevOps teams scale through streamlining developer productivity 10x. Previous to CTO.ai, Kyle founded Retsly, a company that helped developers access real-estate data, which was sold to Zillow after 8 months. As an investor and advisor to a wide range of technology startups, Kyle’s mission is to democratize DevOps to help the next generation of workers reach their full potential.If you are en...2021-02-0445 min
DevelomentorTabitha Sable – Hacker and Systems Security Engineer #128Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Tabitha SableTabitha Sable has been a hacker and cross-platform sysadmin since the turn of the century. As Systems Security Engineer at Datadog, she can usually be found teaching adversarial techniques to other engineers, sharing systems engineering viewpoints with security staff, bicycling, and saying “I wonder what happens if we…”. You can follow her on Twitter at @tabbysable.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantTabitha Sable...2021-02-0158 min
DevelomentorKiara Bickers – Caterer Turned SysAdmin & Bitcoin Author #127Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kiara BickersKiara is a writer and SysAdmin at the Bitcoin company Blockstream. Her gateway into tech and Bitcoin started as a slight obsession with Austrian economics. After first hearing about Bitcoin, she spent the next few years learning how to code with the aim of understanding it. It was during this process that she learned: knowledge of how to code doesn’t automatically translate into an understanding of why a system works.It wasn’t until she started working at Blockstream, with the cypherpunks who work...2021-01-2857 min
DevelomentorJason Hughes – Rock Star Finds Career In Business Intelligence #126Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jason Hughes.Jason Hughes has spent over 10 years in the data and analytics space in roles ranging from BI developer to business analyst, business intelligence, and management. He’s worked in a variety of industries and for Fortune 200 companies as well as companies with under 200 employees. Currently, Jason serves as the Director of Data & Analytics at Delta Dental of MN—a role he’s been in for the past year. In his free time, Jason unwinds by playing guitar, running and spending time with his wife and two d...2021-01-2540 min
DevelomentorAndrei Lopatenko - Head of Search at Zillow & eBay #125Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Andrei Lopatenko.Andrei is Vice President of Engineering at Zillow Group. He is the head of search and discovery engines. This including search science, development, infrastructure, and operations. As part of this role, he heads Zillow Group’s conversational AI efforts, which consist of initiatives around natural language processing platforms, speech analytics, call center AI, and conversational interfaces. The goal is improving Zillow’s business and customer services using natural language processing and speech understanding. Before joining Zillow in 2019, Andrei led search science teams within eBay and W...2021-01-2153 min
DevelomentorAli Spittel - Software Blogger With Over 1.5 Million Readers #124Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ali SpittelAli loves teaching people to code, and is currently doing so as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. She have been employed in the tech industry since 2014, holding multiple software engineering positions at startups, and a Distinguished Faculty and Faculty Lead role at General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive. Ali is also a software blogger!Ali blogs a lot about code and my life as a developer. Her blog posts have had over well over a million reads and have been featured on DEV’s to...2021-01-1846 min
DevelomentorPhilip Noyed – Tech Creative Director & Multimedia Artist #123Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Philip Noyed. Philip Noyed is the tech creative director at Caring Bridge and a multimedia artist living in Minneapolis. Philip Noyed is an innovative multi-media artist living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His art work represents the quintessential contemporary art movement making use of creative technology that is changing the way art is viewed today. His artwork is often called “contemporary stained glass” and can be customized for a variety of architectural and design applications. The finalized artwork can be incorporated into acrylic, glass, tubes, fabric, wall co...2021-01-1545 min
DevelomentorDavid Wong - What is Applied Cryptography? #121Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is David Wong.David Wong is a security engineer working on the libra Blockchain at Facebook. He is an active contributor to internet standards like Transport Layer Security and to the applied cryptography research community. David is a recognized authority in the field of applied cryptography; he’s spoken at large security conferences like Black Hat and DEF CON and has delivered cryptography training sessions in the industry. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published Real-World Cryptography book.If you are enjoying our content please lea...2021-01-0748 min
DevelomentorPeter McKee - Developer Relations Manager, Programming Mentor #120Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Peter Mckee.Peter McKee is the Head of Developer Relations and Advocacy at Docker and maintainer of the open source project Ronin.js. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA but currently residing in Austin, TX, Peter built his career developing full-stack applications for over 25 years. He has held multiple roles but enjoys teaching and mentoring the most. When he’s not slapping away at the keyboard, you can find him practicing Spanish and hanging out with his wife and seven children.If you are enjoying our content please le...2021-01-0446 min
DevelomentorAmar Ghose - Sales & Marketing Digital Nomad #117Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Amar Ghose.Amar Ghose is a Software CEO, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu lover, marketing nerd and compulsive audiobook listener. He is also a full time digital nomadFor the last 6 years Amar has been running ZenMaid, where he leads an awesome team who help thousands of Maid Services every day.As a SaaS marketing specialist, Amar also helps software companies to think outside the technical box and reach their customers in creative, and often unorthodox ways.Amar has been traveling the world full t...2020-12-1749 min
DevelomentorReiner Kraft - Master Inventor & CTO Turned Tech Coach #116Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ruby ShresthaReiner Kraft has more than 15+ years of experience leading high-impact technological organizations both large and small, and has spent 20 years in the Silicon Valley. (Master Inventor)During his 20 years in Silicon Valley, Reiner was one of the most prolific inventors in the area, filing more than 120 patent applications with the US Patent Office. Both IBM Research and Yahoo recognize Reiner as a Master Inventor, and the prestigious MIT Technology Review (TR 100) in 2003 also nominated him as a top innovator under the age of 30. Alongside...2020-12-1451 min
DevelomentorRuby Shrestha – People Ops at Political Tech Startup #115Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ruby ShresthaRuby Shrestha is a People Ops Manager at tech co., a startup seeking to build technology to change the landscape of democracy in America. Prior to her journey into the startup world, she worked as an administrator at a summer camp in rural New Hampshire after earning her degree in Engineering Science at the University of Virginia. Ruby loves working in a startup environment where she is always kept on her toes and can see the positive impact her work has had ev...2020-12-1038 min
DevelomentorMatthew Kelcey – Former Research Engineer at Google Brain #114Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Matthew KelceyMat works part time at ThoughtWorks where he is the Principal Consultant for Machine Learning in Australia. He divides the rest of his time between advisory / mentoring work for early stage companies as well as maintaining his small farm. Prior to ThoughtWorks, Mat was a senior research engineer in the Google Brain team where he worked across robotics & natural language understanding. Mat has held a mix of roles across his 20 year career ranging from machine learning research to engineering for large scale distributed systems; i...2020-12-0742 min
DevelomentorCarolyn Stransky – Journalist and Coder via SPICED Bootcamp #113Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Carolyn StranskyBiographyCarolyn Stransky (she/her) is a software developer and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. She’s currently working with the GraphQL Foundation as part of the Google Season of Docs program. Out of the office, she teaches at ReDI School of Digital Integration, freelance writes for outlets like Curve Magazine and maintains an admittedly ridiculous skincare routine. You can find her most places on the Internet @carolstran.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and re...2020-12-0336 min
DevelomentorMarcello La Rocca – Data Visualization and Applied Research Engineer #112Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Marcello La Rocca.Marcello La Rocca is a research scientist and a full-stack engineer focused on optimization algorithms, genetic algorithms, machine learning and quantum computing. He has contributed to large-scale web applications at companies like Twitter and Microsoft, has undertaken applied research in both academia and industry. He also authored the Neatsort adaptive sorting algorithm.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantJoining us from Zurich...2020-11-3039 min
DevelomentorMada Seghete - Deep Linking, Mobile Marketing #111Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mada SegheteBiographyMada leads market development and culture initiatives at Branch and is also one of its co-founders. Branch specializes in deep linking for mobile applications. Mada was born and raised in Romania and she came came to the US to study Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She later earned her Masters of Engineering and MBA from Stanford. Mada enjoys playing the latest viral mobile game, binge-watching the hottest sci-fi show, and photographing Branch events. Mada regularly speaks about m...2020-11-2349 min
DevelomentorMonica Lent - Tech and Travel Blogger, Software Engineer #106Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Monica LentMonica Lent is an American software engineer and engineering manager living and working in Berlin, Germany.She started coding when she was 10 years old, and hasn’t stopped since then. In her 10+ year technical career (not including coding as a kid 😉), Monica has worked in a wide range of domains such as cloud services, natural language processing, e-learning, and fintech.She has taken on roles ranging from individual contributor to technical lead and manager.Most recently, she was leading a distr...2020-11-0552 min
DevelomentorJames Tucker - Theology Major Becomes Software Developer #105Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is James Tucker. James Tucker is a developer, husband, dog dad, and former aspiring pastor.Currently, he’s working at soona as a full stack engineer, building out a content creation platform primarily with Vue.js and Ruby on Rails.James is passionate about making things and teaching others code. When he’s not coding, you can probably find him spending time with his wife Megan, reading, playing ice hockey, or camping.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and r...2020-11-0246 min
DevelomentorHilliary Turnipseed - History Major Turned Tech Recruiter #104Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hilliary Turnipseed.Hilliary Turnipseed is an experienced talent acquisition and management executive, specializing in early-stage startups, as well as the education technology, media production and advertising industries. Companies she has worked with include Discovery Communications, Black Girls CODE, POLITICO and Blackboard.While Turnipseed’s primary expertise is in recruitment, she also focuses on implementing diversity and inclusion strategies along with employee engagement and wellness program initiatives. She is well known for her creative approaches to optimizing workplace environments and policies for the Millennial and Gen Z ge...2020-10-2953 min
DevelomentorKent C. Dodds – Software Quality Instructor and World Renowned Speaker #100Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kent C. Dodds!Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he’s actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of TestingJavaScript.com and he’s an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He’s also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and React.If you are enjoying our content please...2020-10-1543 min
DevelomentorKamil Sindi – Financial Analyst Turned CTO #96Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kamil Sindi.BiographyKamil Sindi started his young professional career as a financial analyst before getting into tech.Currently, Kamil oversees engineering, data science and design at JW Player, the world’s largest independent video platform. Prior to being promoted to CTO, Kamil served as VP of Engineering responsible for infrastructure and data at JW Player, Lead Data Engineer at Better Mortgage, and as a senior technologist at a quantitative hedge fund. Kamil received a B.Sc. in Mathematics with Computer Science fr...2020-10-0141 min
DevelomentorTaylor Poindexter - Sr. Back End Engineer, Cofounder of Black Code Collective #94Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Taylor Poindexter.Taylor Poindexter is the co-founder of Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to provide a safe space for Black Engineers to collaborate and grow their skills. In addition to this, she is a Senior Back End Engineer for a startup called tech co. A company that is working to make a more participatory democracy. Some awards she’s received include: 2019 Power Woman of DC Tech, DC Fem Tech’s 2018 Power Woman in Code, DC’s 2017 Top Technologist, and 2017 Power Woman of DC Tech. In her spare...2020-09-2441 min
DevelomentorDavid Glick – 20 year Amazon veteran turned CTO #87Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is David Glick.David Glick is the CTO of the FLEXE fulfillment technology platform. Before FLEXE, he spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, including five years as the VP of Fulfillment Technology, where he oversaw the development and functionality of the technology within Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the technology for Amazon’s transportationIf you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantIf you’ve ever wo...2020-08-3143 min
DevelomentorDan Papandrea - How to Get Paid as a Tech Sales Engineer? #86Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dan Papandrea. Dan “POP” Papandrea is the Field CTO for Sysdig, a cloud-native security and visibility platform. Dan became a tech sales engineer after starting his tech career in tech support and IT. POP spends his days learning and contributing to the orchestration and container ecosystem. POP is the host of the hit podcast The POPCAST by Dan POP which explores the leaders and creators and stories behind the code. twitter: @popcastpopIf you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review...2020-08-2745 min
DevelomentorBoris Paskhaver - Udemy Online Educator with 275K Students #85Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Boris PaskhaverBoris Paskhaver is a New York City-based software engineer, author, and consultant. He’s also been an online educator on Udemy since 2016.After graduating from New York University in 2013 with a degree in Business Economics and Marketing, Boris worked as a business analyst, systems administrator, and data analyst for a variety of companies including a digital marketing agency, a financial services firm, and an international tech powerhouse. At one of those roles, he was fortunate enough to...2020-08-2442 min
DevelomentorAtri Sharma - Database Engineer and Open Source Committer #84Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Atri Sharma!As a database engineer and open source committer, Atri Sharma has built a career in tech deeply focused some of today’s most popular databases. Some of these include PostgreSQL, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Presto and HAWQ. After getting his bachelor’s from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Atri Sharma has held roles at Amazon, EnterpriseDB, Teradata, Barclays, Pivotal, Microsoft and Intuit. Along the way, he’s become a prolific contributor to several open source projects like Lucene, PostgreSQL and a handful of other Apache S...2020-08-2034 min
DevelomentorHayden Simmons - Emerging Market Fintech and Biz Development #82Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hayden SimmonsHayden has been working in emerging market fintech for most of his career. He graduated from Colorado College in 2007, with an Economic Development major and Spanish minor, having written his thesis on the impact of collectivized remittances in rural Mexico. He spent the early part of his career on the non-profit side, connecting venture-backed remittance startups with immigrant communities for product-market fit testing.Hayden later spent 4 years at Juvo, managing strategic partnerships across LatAm, Africa and Southeast Asia. He then helped Migo expand from...2020-08-1441 min
DevelomentorKen Youens-Clark - Music Major Turned Scientific Programmer #81Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ken Youens-Clark. BiographyKen Youens-Clark is a senior-level programmer with 24 years of experience developing software in industry and research environments (scientific programmer). He is the author of Tiny Python Projects published by Manning Publications.Ken has deep knowledge of the entire software life-cycle experience, from design, execution, testing, release, and iteration. Ken is a creative thinker and innovator, constantly looking for ways to improve upon systems and interfaces. Ken enjoys mentoring younger developers through code reviews, book reviews, and teaching....2020-08-1051 min
DevelomentorNaomi Ceder - Fostering a Global Python Community #80Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Naomi Ceder.BiographyNaomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago. She switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python.An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi currently serves as chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general.By day she leads a team...2020-08-0640 min
DevelomentorStephen Wolfram - What Is The Future Of Computing? #79Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Stephen Wolfram.Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Stephen is shaping the future of computing every day.Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking. He has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.(https...2020-08-031h 05
DevelomentorDr. Ryan Rosario - How to Excel at Statistics and Computer Science? #78Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dr. Ryan Rosario!Dr. Ryan Rosario is currently a Data Scientist at Google, in the Search area, and Lecturer for the UCLA Department of Computer Science. Prior to Google, Ryan has worked at both Facebook and Amazon. Ryan has split his time between industry and academia. His research, academic and work interests include Machine Learning, Text Mining and Natural Language Processing. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes...2020-07-3035 min
DevelomentorMichael Hartl - PhD In Physics Turned Education Entrepreneur #77Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael HartlMichael is an education entrepreneur and the founder of Learn Enough. Michael is the author of over ten books, including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, one of the leading introductions to web development, and received a Ruby Hero Award for his contributions to the Ruby community. He is also the author of the influential mathematical essay The Tau Manifesto and founded the internationally celebrated math holiday Tau Day in 2010. Previously, Michael taught the core physics curriculum at Caltech, where he wa...2020-07-2750 min
DevelomentorEmily Robinson & Jacqueline Nolis – How To Jump Into Data Science from Any Background? #76Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest are Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis, authors of the book 'Build Your Career in Data Science'. Emily Robinson works at Warby Parker as a senior data scientist on a centralized team tackling some of the company’s biggest projects. Previously, she was at DataCamp, where she built and ran their experimentation analytics system, and at Etsy, where she worked with their search team to design, implement, and analyze experiments. I regularly give talks on A/B testing, R programming, and data science career advice at conferences and meetups (see al...2020-07-2357 min
DevelomentorJames Schaffer - Learning to Code After Years of Social AdvocacyWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is James Schaffer.James Schaffer is a founder, strategist, product designer, and currently a freelance software engineer. He has over a decade of experience managing small organizations including a social justice advocacy firm.James is skilled in entrepreneurship, planning, curriculum design & development, data ETL and financial modeling. James is committed to leveraging excellent product design and data engineering for social equity and progressive policy.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“The co...2020-07-2039 min
DevelomentorSimon Willison - Data Journalism, The Importance of Side Projects #74Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Simon Willison.Simon Willison is a JSK Journalism Fellow. When selected as a fellow he was an engineering director at Eventbrite. He originally joined Eventbrite through its acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator-funded company he co-founded in 2010. Simon has made huge leaps in data journalism. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework. He has also been blogging about web development, programming and data journalism since 2002 at simonwillison.net.Simon is the creator of Datasette, a new tool for publishing structured data as a...2020-07-1648 min
DevelomentorCaitlyn Greffly - From Beer Sales to Coding Via Thinkful Bootcamp #73Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Caitlyn Greffly.Caitlyn Greffly is a software engineer who recently transitioned from beer sales into tech via Thinkful bootcamp. She also tries to advocate for others who are making the career switch, and enjoys talking about tech with anyone who will listen.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“I spent a good chunk of time working in the beer industry. And I just got sick of the travel. There was a lot of...2020-07-1340 min
DevelomentorLeon Mallett - Why Do Generalists Thrive in Digital Marketing? #72Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Leon MallettLeon Mallett accepted a job in digital marketing when real estate investing became too risky. Before he knew it, digital marketing became his passion! Leon is currently the chief operating officer (COO) of IAM Cloud (IAM Technology Group Ltd). Leon Mallett is a biology major turned digital marketer and tech executive who I first met on Twitter on a thread on careers and jobs people have held. Turns out we were both paper boys growing up and are now in the C-Suite at tech fi...2020-07-0839 min
DevelomentorZhenya Antić - Finding Work-Life Balance as a Linguist and Freelance NLP Consultant #71Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Zhenya AntićZhenya Antić is an AI consultant in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). She helps businesses transform their textual data to extract meaningful insights from it, improve their process, cut costs and increase productivity by automating their text processing. (Freelance NLP Consultant)Zhenya's background is in Computer Science (BS from MIT) and Linguistics (PhD from UC Berkeley). She also working on many NLP projects at FactSet, a large financial software company, and as a consultant for companies of all sizes. If...2020-07-0628 min
DevelomentorDr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen – Controversy Detection in Social Media #70Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dr. Shiri Dori-HacohenDr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen is the CEO & founder of AuCoDe, an AI-based FinTech startup that detects online and social media controversy. (Controversy Detection).She has fifteen years of academic and industry experience, including Google and Facebook. She received her M.Sc. and B.Sc. (cum laude) at the University of Haifa in Israel and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she researched computational models of controversy. Dr. Dori-Hacohen is the recipient of several prestigious awards, i...2020-07-0243 min
DevelomentorDiane Burley – Tech Content Marketing & Storytelling #69Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Diane Burley..Diane Burley is a storyteller. She helps executives in all industries understand technology’s role in solving many of the challenges they face today. What is tech content marketing? How does it differ from marketing in other industries?Diane is a former journalist and multi-media executive. She put the first daily newspapers on the web in 1995. Diane is fully aware of the complexities of integrating vast amounts of data, facing political hurdles, and changing up processes to support the technologies-all while facing that “existential thre...2020-06-2937 min
DevelomentorVicki Boykis – Econ Major Turned Machine Learning Engineer #68Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Vicki Boykis.Vicki Boykis is currently a machine learning engineer at Automattic as well as a published writer on topics in the data science space. Vicki received a Bachelors degree in Economics from Penn State and her MBA from Temple. That’s right, she didn’t study computer science in university! She became curious in software engineering at her job at Comcast. She decided to learn on her own with a little help from her peers. Oh, and she took a few online courses from a commu...2020-06-2537 min
DevelomentorAdam Cheyer - Co-Founder of Siri, Viv Labs, and Change.org #67Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Adam Cheyer.Adam Cheyer is an inventor, entrepreneur, engineering executive, and a pioneer in AI and computer human interfaces.Adam has been a co-founder or founding member of four successful startups, including Siri (sold to Apple, where he led server-side engineering and AI for the Siri assistant). Change.org (the world’s largest petition platform), Viv Labs (sold to Samsung, where as VP R&D, Adam leads product engineering and developer relations for Samsung’s voice assistant), Sentient (massively distributed machine learning).Previously, Adam was VP E...2020-06-2252 min
DevelomentorCharity Majors - Systems Engineer & Cofounder of Honeycomb.io #66Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Charity MajorsCharity Majors is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab. She is also the co-author of Database Reliability Engineering. Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, a company dedicated to building production engineering and observability products“With distributed systems, you don’t care about the health of the system, you care about the health of the event or the slice.”If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episo...2020-06-1850 min
DevelomentorErik Bernhardsson - Spotify, Recommendation Algorithms & Hiring #65Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Erik Bernhardsson.Erik Bernhardsson is the CTO of Better. Better is on a mission to change the enormous and hopelessly broken mortgage industry. Erik runs the technology team, which consists of roughly 50 engineers.Before Better, Erik spent six years at Spotify, mostly building the core of the music recommendation system. He started out writing recommendation algorithms and eventually built a team of 20 people to help out with this.In his spare time, Erik enjoy building open source software, for instance Annoy (6k stars on...2020-06-1539 min
DevelomentorMichael Tuso - What Does It Take To Be In Tech Sales? #64Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael TusoMichael Tuso is currently Director of Revenue Performance at Chili Piper. He has held a variety of sales roles both inside of and outside of technology. Over the years, he’s sold for Citrix, SnackNation and now Chili Piper. He’s also done a different category of “sales” work as a campaign manager. To make his story even more colorful, Michael built much of his early sales experience working from South and Central America in places like Costa Rica and Bolivia. So, if you’ve a...2020-06-1135 min
DevelomentorDr. Roman Yampolskiy - Controlling Artificial Super-Intelligence #63Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dr. Roman Yampolskiy.Dr. Yampolskiy’s main areas of interest are behavioral biometrics, digital forensics, pattern recognition, genetic algorithms, neural networks, artificial super-intelligence and games. Dr. Yampolskiy is an author of over 100 publications including multiple journal articles and books. His research has been cited by numerous scientists and profiled in popular magazines both American and foreign (New Scientist, Poker Magazine, Science World Magazine), dozens of websites (BBC, MSNBC, Yahoo! News) and on radio (German National Radio, Alex Jones Show). Reports about his work have attr...2020-06-0834 min
DevelomentorSona Maniyan - Stay-At-Home Mom Turned Sr. Data Scientist #62Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Sona Maniyan.If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to change careers into the tech industry after a long time as a stay at home parent, stay tuned!Sona Maniyan received both her bachelor’s and master’s in accounting and finance. Subsequently, she landed roles ranging from consultant to customer service supervisor and financial analyst. But Sona’s career path took a turn after a few years as a stay-at-home Mom. She decided to go back to school to become a software en...2020-06-0143 min
DevelomentorJohn Carnell - MBA Grad Turned Tech Architect, Manager #61Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is John Carnell. John Carnell is currently the team lead at Genesys.He comes to us with 20+ years of experience working across a variety of technical development roles including consultant, tech architect, developer and team lead. He has a background in both computer science and criminology and has also gone on to get an MBA. Along his path he’s written a book and taken on a number of speaking engagements.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!2020-05-2741 min
DevelomentorPeter Bell - Founder of CTO Connection, Psychotherapist #60Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Peter BellPeter Bell has a long history of building tech companies and holding down roles like CEO and CTO. After studying electronics and communications systems engineering, Peter promptly went into private practice as a psychotherapist. He then returned to tech to add a long string of founder titles to his resume. Over the years, Peter has built web design companies, digital agencies, and sales and tech training companies. He’s worked for the likes of Github and General Assembly, as well as a variety of sma...2020-05-2543 min
DevelomentorJonathan Cutrell - Eng. Manager, Podcast Host of Developer Tea #59Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jonathan CutrellJonathan Cutrell is a communications and media studies graduate who started his early career as a writer and editor before entering the world of development. He’s held a variety of roles including software engineer, director and CTO. These days, he’s an engineering manager and fellow podcaster who started the Spec.fm podcast network. Spec.fm currently hosts 12 different podcasts and sees an average of 100,000 downloads a weekIf you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Epi...2020-05-2143 min
DevelomentorArun Ganesan - Embedded Systems Engineer at Ford #58Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Arun GanesanArun Ganesan is an Embedded Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company. Arun obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona. He then started working at Ford Motor Co. as an Analytical Programmer due to his knowledge in Matlab programming. Arun started writing Matlab scripts for durability analysis which then expanded to systems level analysis. At that point he jumped to being Systems Engineer. Arun continued with Matlab programming as well as C# programming – this is where he...2020-05-1828 min
DevelomentorDrew Lazzeri - Lumberjack Turned Programmer Pursues Music #57Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Drew LazzeriBiographyDrew Lazzeri is a former lumberjack who then went on to get a degree in math and theater from Santa Clara University. From college, he has gone on to be a freelance web developer and full stack engineer. Interviewing.io Referral Code for Develomentor Listeners!While he currently works for another guest of the show, Aline Lerner at interviewing.io, he’s about to take a sabbatical from tech to go to music school in Hungary for a f...2020-05-1429 min
DevelomentorChris Love & Jay Vyas - Kubernetes, Large Scale Distributed Systems #56Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guests are Chris Love and Jay Vyas.The first five people who email the show at kube@develomentor.com will receive a code good for one free ebook. For those who don’t want to send an email, you can get a 40% discount ON ALL Manning books, including Core Kubernetes by using the discount code poddevmen20. Get 40% off on Core Kubernetes or anything from Manning Publications using this link!!BiographyC...2020-05-1150 min
DevelomentorMichael Hausenblas – Academia to Dev Advocate at AWS, Red Hat #55Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael Hausenblas. BiographyMichael started his career in academia as a PhD academic researcher. These days, Michael is a Developer Advocate at AWS. He is part of the container service team, focusing on container security. Michael shares his experience around cloud-native infrastructure and apps through demos, blog posts, books, and public speaking engagements as well as contributes to open-source software. Before AWS, Michael worked at Red Hat, Mesosphere,MapR and in two research institutions in Ireland and Austria.2020-05-0734 min
DevelomentorNadeem Chaudhry - CTO of Jobot, AI Powered Job Search #54Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Nadeem Chaudhry. Nadeem Chaudhry is the proverbial college dropout who left school early to get started on his software career. After leaving college before his junior year, he worked his way up from software engineering and architecture into engineering management and leadership. These days, he’s the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Jobot, a startup focused on using artificial intelligence to transform the career recruiting space. Nadeem has worked in a variety of industries including ecommerce, recruiting, and customer relationship management. All along the way, he has...2020-05-0332 min
DevelomentorMike Gamson - CEO of Relativity, Former VP of Sales at LinkedIn #53Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mike Gamson. Mike first joined the Relativity team in 2017 as a member of the advisory board. He got the unique opportunity to get to know the company’s business and team extremely well before stepping up to the role of CEO in 2019. Mike brings over 20 years of recruitment, sales, and product marketing experience to Relativity. In his former role at LinkedIn, Mike oversaw LinkedIn’s Global Solutions Organization (GSO) for its more than 30 offices worldwide, focusing on servicing corporate customers in three primary areas—talent solutions, marketin...2020-04-3034 min
DevelomentorLiz Phillips - Theatre, Grace Hopper Coding Bootcamp #52Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Liz Phillips. Liz Phillips is a full-stack software engineer in New York City. She has a strong background in design from her previous career working in theater and film. Every week you can tune into her educational Twitch stream where she’s creating a welcoming community for coders of all skill levels to meet other coders, ask questions, and learn by working on a real open source projects and answering questions. Liz is a proud member of the The Live Coders Twitch stream team. Liz believes in u...2020-04-2741 min
DevelomentorJosh Wills - Statistician, Former Director of Data Engineering at Slack #51Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Josh Wills. Josh Wills is a former engineer on Slack's Search, Learning, and Intelligence Team helping to build the company's production search and machine learning infrastructure. He's a recovering manager, having most recently built and led Slack's data engineering team and before that the data science and engineering teams at Cloudera and Google. Josh is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, the founder of the Apache Crunch project, and a co-author of O'Reilly's Advanced Analytics with Spark. In May of 2012, he tweeted a pithy definition of...2020-04-2334 min
DevelomentorChidamber Kulkarni - rENIAC, FPGAs & Database Acceleration #50Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Chidamber Kulkarni. Chidamber has been working on various aspects of FPGA technology for 16+ years now. In the last 5-6 years his primary focus has been acceleration of database and related technologies. Chidamber is a founder & CTO of Reniac Inc, a company that specializes in database acceleration with FPGAs. Prior to Reniac, Chidamber was at Xilinx for 9 years as design engineer. Chidamber has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke, a research university in Belgium. Click Here –> For more information about tech...2020-04-1935 min
DevelomentorJeff Meyerson - Poker Player Launches Tech Podcast, Software Engineering Daily #49Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jeff Meyerson. Jeffrey Meyerson is the creator and host of the podcast Software Engineering Daily (@software_daily). He is also the founder of FindCollabs, a platform to find collaborators for ventures.Jeff definitely took a non-traditional path to software engineering. Before getting his degree he played poker professionally for 3 years and then became a poker coach!Post-college, he worked at a number of software companies including Amazon and eBay as an engineer. Pretty quickly, Jeff realized that he prefers to work for himself. These...2020-04-1643 min
DevelomentorGeoff Harcourt – CTO of Literacy Non-profit, CommonLit #48Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Geoffrey Harcourt. Geoff Harcourt is the CTO at CommonLit, a non-profit that provides reading curriculum services in English and Spanish to students and teachers around the world. CommonLit currently serves over 15 million students between the 3rd and 12th grades. Before joining CommonLit he was a product engineering consultant at thoughtbot, where he worked with high-growth startups to help them tackle process and scaling problems. He previously worked as CTO of Cortex Building Intelligence, a startup whose product helps commercial real estate operators reduce their ut...2020-04-1339 min
DevelomentorJennifer Creighton – English Grad Turned Software Architect, Speaker #47Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jennifer Creighton. Jenn Creighton is a frontend architect and conference speaker. She lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online @gurlcode.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“Doing a major in English is very technically heavy, and so I think a lot of that transfers into engineering. You pay attention to composition a lot. You a...2020-04-0946 min
DevelomentorOlivia Liddell - Arabic Teacher Turned Curriculum Developer at AWS (#46)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Olivia Liddell. Olivia Liddell is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services. Over the course of her career, she has created innovative teaching and technical training solutions for learners from diverse backgrounds and skill levels.A Certified Ethical Hacker, Olivia frequently speaks on topics such as social engineering and security awareness. In her spare time, she enjoys distance running, studying linguistic anthropology, and developing web applications for Arabic language learners.Click Here –> For more information about tech careers...2020-04-0447 min
DevelomentorJody Mulkey - CTO of GoodRx, former CPO of Aspiration (#45)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jody Mulkey. Prior to GoodRx, Jody Mulkey (@jodymulkey) was the Chief Product Officer at Aspiration. An accomplished technologist and inspirational engineering leader, Jody is known for building high-performance systems and teams.Prior to Aspiration, Jody spent 5 years as CTO of Ticketmaster leading the global product and technology transformation. Prior to Ticketmaster Jody spent over 14 years at Shopzilla, now Connexity, a leading source for connecting buyers and online sellers that reaches a global audience of over 40 million shoppers monthly...2020-04-0253 min
DevelomentorAline Lerner – Pro Chef Starts Tech Recruiting Firm, Interviewing.io (#44)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Aline Lerner. Aline Lerner is the founder and CEO of interviewing.io, an anonymous technical recruiting platform where companies like Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, and Quora have hired great software engineers. Before that, she was a software engineer for 5 years, ran hiring at Udacity, and wrote a lot of stuff about hiring on the internet.Aline’s data-driven posts about how typos matter more than pedigree, how resumes are a low-signal filtering tool, and how te...2020-03-2953 min
DevelomentorGary Flake Pt. 2 – Founding Clipboard, Getting Acquired by Salesforce (#43)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Gary Flake. Dr. Gary William Flake is an independent scientist, author, and inventor, that currently advises over a dozen startups, public companies, universities, and non-profits.Gary was previously the CTO of Search and Data Science at salesforce.comwhere he managed salesforce’s entire search business unit. Prior to that, Gary was CEO of Clipboard Inc., which was acquired by salesforce.com in May of 2013. Before founding Clipboard, Gary was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft (2005-2010), where he was responsible for bridging Mic...2020-03-2646 min
DevelomentorGary Flake - Scientist, Author, and Former CTO of Search at Salesforce (#42)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Gary Flake. Dr. Gary William Flake is an independent scientist, author, and inventor, that currently advises over a dozen startups, public companies, universities, and non-profits.Gary was previously the CTO of Search and Data Science at salesforce.com where he managed salesforce’s entire search business unit. Prior to that, Gary was CEO of Clipboard Inc., which was acquired by salesforce.com in May of 2013. Before founding Clipboard, Gary was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft (2005-2010), where he was responsible for bridging Mic...2020-03-2345 min
DevelomentorMark Imbriaco - Tech Director of DevOps at Epic Games (#41)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mark Imbriaco. Mark Imbriaco has done everything from scaling and systems operations to starting his own company. His focus has been on an emerging part of technology: DevOps and site reliability engineering. Mark often leads scaling (for sites and applications) and builds teams that manage those sites. Mark has held positions at AOL, Bank of America, Github, Basecamp, Heroku, DigitalOcean and now Epic Games.Episode Summary“DevOps is all about how do we take the code that gets developed, and the...2020-03-2047 min
DevelomentorHyoun Park - Gender Studies Major Turned Tech Industry Analyst (#40)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hyoun Park. Park has an MBA from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Amherst College.Hyoun Park is the CEO and Founder of Amalgam Insights, an industry analyst firm focused on managing technology at scale for emerging business models. Over the past 20+ years, Park has been at the forefront of trends such as Moneyball, social networking, Bring Your Own Device, data monetization, and the Subscription Economy working with startups, large enterprises, and the...2020-03-1645 min
DevelomentorMark DiMassimo - Creative Director, CEO of DiMassimo Goldstein (#39)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mark DiMassimo. Mark DiMassimo (Creative Director) is Chief of DiMassimo Goldstein, an “inspiring action” agency which he founded in 1996. A creative entrepreneur since his teens, DiMassimo began his agency career working for the author of “Direct Marketing: Strategy, Planning & Execution." DiMassimo set a goal to start an agency that would bring the benefits of great brand building to direct model innovators, particularly those that offer life-changing services directly to clients.The promise would be simple: drive brand value up and cost-per-acquisition down.This...2020-03-1236 min
DevelomentorMike Gualtieri - Tech Analyst at Forrester (#38)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mike Gualtieri. Mike Gualtieri has more than 25 years of experience in the industry helping design and develop mission-critical applications in eCommerce, insurance, banking, travel/hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology for organizations including NASA, eBay, Bank of America, Liberty Mutual, Nielsen, EMC, and many others. His background is that of a practitioner, having written thousands of lines of code, managed development teams, and architected complex systems.Mike's research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver digital transformations that lead t...2020-03-0939 min
DevelomentorEric Bowman - Programmer of The Sims, Currently SVP at TomTom (#37)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Eric Bowman. Eric Bowman is SVP Engineering at TomTom, which he rejoined in 2019 to help shape TomTom’s engineering culture for an increasingly online future. Previously, Eric was Zalando’s first VP Engineering, where he drove Radical Agility and led the engineering team into the cloud and oversaw huge growth and change at the company. A 25-year industry veteran, Eric has been a technical leader at multiple startups as well as global companies including Gilt Group, Three, Electronic Arts, and Maxis, where he was one of the three amigo...2020-03-0541 min
DevelomentorJono Bacon - Community Manager, Speaker, and Author (#36)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jono Bacon. Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, developer workflow, and other services. He also previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, OpenAdvantage, and consulted and advised a range of organizations.Bacon is a prominent author and speaker on community management and best practice. His most recent book, People Powered, came out in 2019. Jono also wrote the best-selling The Art of Community (O’Re...2020-03-0244 min
DevelomentorSimon Willnauer - Cofounder of Elastic & Berlin Buzzwords (#35)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Simon Willnauer. Simon is one of the main developers of Apache Lucene and a Lucene committer. He is also a PMC member and Apache Software Foundation member. Simon has led Elasticsearch's core development for over five years and co-founded the Berlin Buzzwords conference on search, store, and scalability.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary"The big common denominator between concurrency problems and other big problems is that they usually are...2020-02-2640 min
DevelomentorRebecca Watson - Tech Sales and Relationship Building (#34)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Rebecca Watson. Rebecca Weeks Watson is a digital media and tech entrepreneur who has been awarded two U.S. patents. After starting her career in finance and then consulting for Match.com, she decided to pursue her interest in the startup world. She was on the founding team and led Business Development for two different marketing technology companies, one of which was acquired by Meredith Corporation. During that time she led the product development, launch, and distribution of social media products that became adopted by publishers and brands w...2020-02-2442 min
DevelomentorLaurie Barth - Software Engineer, Speaker & Blogger (#33)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Laurie Barth. Laurie is a Staff Software Engineer on the Gatsby Learning Team as well as a conference speaker, egghead instructor and member of the TC39 Educators committee. As a technical blogger, Laurie is a contributor to various publications, including CSS Tricks and Smashing Magazine. When she isn't writing code you can find her playing board games and eating cupcakes with her puppy, Avett. Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary"I'm a very plan oriented per...2020-02-2046 min
Develomentor#31 Charles Max Wood - From Programmer to Full-Time Podcast WizWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Charles Max Wood. Charles Max Wood guides developers in being successful developers and building terrific lives through programming at maxcoders.io. He's also on a mission to create a podcast for every programming community. He loves connecting with new people, talking about code, and hanging with his family.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary"I've had mentors and people to help me build my career and I want to help other people do that too."...2020-02-1353 min
DevelomentorTracy Lee - On Founding ThisDot and Building Communities #30Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Tracy Lee. Tracy Lee is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a consultancy focused on helping companies with digital transformations. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. She heads up Community Relations for Node.js at OpenJS Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web podcast, organizer of This.JavaScript, Contributor Days, Google Developer Group Silicon Valley and Triangle, and RxWorkshop. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet or at http://t...2020-02-1043 min
DevelomentorDaniel Tunkelang - Endeca, Search and Choosing to Freelance (#29)Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Daniel Tunkelang. Daniel Tunkelang is currently an independent consultant or, in his words, a 'high-class consultant' for technology companies. Previous to this, he was a data science and engineering executive who has built and led some of the strongest teams in the software industry.Daniel studied computer science and math at MIT and has a PhD in computer science from CMU. He was a founding employee and chief scientist of Endeca, a search pioneer that Oracle acquired for $1.1B. He led a local search team at G...2020-02-061h 00