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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,

May 11, 2020

Chris Love & Jay Vyas – Kubernetes, Large Scale Distributed Systems #56

Today’s episode is a bit of a special one in that we are going to interview not one, but two guests. They are the co-authors

May 7, 2020

Michael Hausenblas – Academia to Dev Advocate at AWS, Red Hat #55

Biography Michael started his career in academia as a PhD academic researcher. These days, Michael is a Developer Advocate at AWS. He is part of

May 4, 2020

Nadeem Chaudhry – CTO of Jobot, AI Powered Job Search #54

Biography Nadeem Chaudhry is the proverbial college dropout who left school early to get started on his software career. After leaving college before his junior

April 30, 2020

Mike Gamson – CEO of Relativity, Former VP of Sales at LinkedIn (#53)

BiographyEpisode SummaryKey MilestonesAdditional Resources Biography Mike first joined the Relativity team in 2017 as a member of the advisory board. He got the unique opportunity

April 27, 2020

Liz Phillips – Theatre, Grace Hopper Coding Bootcamp #52

BiographyEpisode SummaryKey MilestonesAdditional Resources Biography Liz Phillips is a full stack software engineer in New York City. She has a strong background in design from

April 23, 2020

Josh Wills – Statistician, Former Director of Data Engineering at Slack #51

BiographyEpisode SummaryKey MilestonesAdditional Resources Biography Josh Wills is a former engineer and Statistician on Slack’s Search, Learning, and Intelligence Team helping to build the company’s

Eric Bowman – Programmer of The Sims, Currently SVP at TomTom (#37)

Ep. 11 Ellen Friedman – Biochemist to Principal Technologist

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

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