Podcast Episodes | Podcast Focused on Careers in Tech- Develomentor

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July 20, 2020

James Schaffer – Learning to Code After Years of Social Advocacy

Biography James Schaffer is a founder, strategist, product designer, and currently a freelance software engineer. He has over a decade of experience managing small organizations

July 16, 2020

Simon Willison – Data Journalism, The Importance of Side Projects

Biography Simon Willison is a JSK Journalism Fellow. When selected as a fellow he was an engineering director at Eventbrite. He originally joined Eventbrite through

July 13, 2020

Caitlyn Greffly – From Beer Sales to Coding Via Thinkful Bootcamp #73

Biography Caitlyn Greffly is a software engineer who recently transitioned from beer sales into tech via Thinkful bootcamp. She also tries to advocate for others

July 9, 2020

Leon Mallett – Why Do Generalists Thrive in Digital Marketing? #72

Biography Leon Mallett accepted a job in digital marketing when real estate investing became too risky. Before he knew it, digital marketing became his passion!

July 6, 2020

Zhenya Antić – Finding Work-Life balance as a Linguist and Freelance NLP Consultant #71

Biography Zhenya Antić is an AI consultant in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). She helps businesses transform their textual data to extract meaningful

July 2, 2020

Dr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen – Controversy Detection in Social Media #70

Biography Dr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen is the CEO & founder of AuCoDe, an AI-based FinTech startup that detects online and social media controversy. (Controversy Detection). She

June 29, 2020

Diane Burley – Tech Content Marketing & Storytelling #69

Biography 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

June 25, 2020

Vicki Boykis – Econ Major Turned Machine Learning Engineer #68

Biography Vicki Boykis is currently a machine learning engineer at Automattic as well as a published writer on topics in the data science space. Vicki

June 22, 2020

Adam Cheyer – Co-Founder of Siri, Viv Labs, and Change.org #67

Biography 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

June 18, 2020

Charity Majors – Systems Engineer & Cofounder of Honeycomb.io #66

Biography Charity Majors is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab. She is also the co-author of Database Reliability Engineering.

June 15, 2020

Erik Bernhardsson – Spotify, Recommendation Algorithms & Hiring #65

Biography Erik Bernhardsson is the CTO of Better. Better is on a mission to change the enormous and hopelessly broken mortgage industry. Erik runs the

June 11, 2020

Michael Tuso – What Does It Take To Be In Tech Sales? #64

Biography Michael Tuso is currently Director of Revenue Performance at Chili Piper. He has held a variety of sales roles both inside of and outside

June 8, 2020

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy – Controlling Artificial Super-Intelligence #63

Biography 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

June 1, 2020

Sona Maniyan – Stay-At-Home Mom Turned Sr. Data Scientist #62

Biography If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to change careers into the tech industry (more specifically as a data scientist) after a long time

May 28, 2020

John Carnell – MBA Grad Turned Tech Architect, Manager #61

Biography John Carnell is currently the team lead at Genesys. He comes to us with 20+ years of experience working across a variety of technical

May 25, 2020

Peter Bell – Founder of CTO Connection, Psychotherapist #60

Biography Peter Bell has a long history of building tech companies and holding down roles like CEO and CTO. After studying electronics and communications systems

May 21, 2020

Jonathan Cutrell – Eng. Manager, Podcast Host of Developer Tea #59

Biography Jonathan Cutrell is a communications and media studies graduate who started his early career as a writer and editor before entering the world of

May 18, 2020

Arun Ganesan – Embedded Systems Engineer at Ford #58

Biography Arun 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

May 14, 2020

Drew Lazzeri – Lumberjack Turned Programmer Pursues Music #57

Biography Drew Lazzeri is a former lumberjack who then went on to get a degree in math and theater from Santa Clara University. From college,

Daniel Tunkelang – Endeca, Search and Choosing to Freelance (#29)

Ep. 11 Ellen Friedman – Biochemist to Principal Technologist

Ep. 15 Kelsey Hightower – Tech Support to Dev Advocate to Keynote Speaker

Emily Robinson & Jacqueline Nolis – How To Jump Into Data Science from Any Background? #76