Develomentor
147 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThe Develomentor podcast is an interview-based show designed to help you find your path in technology. Each interview explores the career path and lessons learned of individuals who have built successful careers in technology across a range of roles, including software engineering, data science, engineering management and sales engineering. A monthly bonus episode features a panel discussing timely topics in technology, like compensation, freelancing, joining a startup and much more.
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Andrew Montalenti - From Morgan Stanley to Founding Parse.ly #92
September 17, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Andrew Montalenti Andrew is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Parse.ly. Andrew was Parse.ly’s founding CTO, and he led the company through its early R&D, fundraising, and initial scale-up growth/hiring periods. He now leads the company’s product strategy and vision as CPO. Based in NYC, Andrew is a regular speaker on topics including real-time analytics, open source software, fully distributed teams, and product m...
Sean Melody – Senior Architect and Chief Technologist #91
September 14, 2020 13:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Sean Melody Sean Melody has held a variety of roles across a several companies since he started his career almost 20 years ago. He’s been an engineer, architect, team lead, dev manager, CTO, and now works for a small company as a Chief Technologist where he focuses on bringing new products to market in the automotive space. He does product development, especially with web front ends, and has done various back end and mobile proj...
Abdel Tefridj – Master Soap Maker Turned Chief Innovation Officer #90
September 10, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Abdel Tefridj. Abdel is leading the product development at Data Bid Machine to optimize companies’ traffic acquisition. He is a technology and product executive with an extensive background in eCommerce, data science, and software development. Abel has also held roles as chief innovation officer. He is advising several growing companies in their digital transformation and scaling their data science initiatives. Strong backgroun...
Deepanshu Madan - Sending LinkedIn Messages to Get Any Tech Job #89
September 07, 2020 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Deepanshu Madan. “Deepanshu is a full-stack software engineer, Product, and Business lead. He has recently co-founded ProcessLabs.ai, to help technology leaders optimize their engineering processes and ship high-quality software, faster. Deepanshu has a Bachelors’s and Master’s in Computer science and has worked across a variety of technology development roles. He started his career as a Software engineer in Test, moved on to bec...
Cornelia Davis – Cloud Computing Expert & CTO #88
September 03, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Cornelia Davis. As the Chief Technology Officer at Weaveworks, Cornelia Davis is responsible for the company’s technology strategy so as to aid enterprises who are transforming their business through the leverage of cloud computing platforms. Cornelia cut her teeth in the space of modern application platforms at Pivotal where she was on the teams that brought Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Pivotal’s PaaS), various data products and Piv...
David Glick – 20 year Amazon veteran turned CTO #87
August 31, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBWelcome 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 transportation If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider s...
Dan Papandrea - How to Get Paid as a Tech Sales Engineer? #86
August 27, 2020 13:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBWelcome 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: @...
Boris Paskhaver - Udemy Online Educator with 275K Students #85
August 24, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Boris Paskhaver Boris 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 in...
Atri Sharma - Database Engineer and Open Source Committer #84
August 20, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBWelcome 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...
Veljko Krunic - How to Align AI With Your Business #83
August 17, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Veljko Krunic! Veljko Krunic is a data science consultant, has a computer science PhD, and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Today’s topic – How To Align AI With Your Business? If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting us Quotes “Almost any engineer has a privilege of creating something that was not there before and that was something very important for me.” “It’s not...
Hayden Simmons - Emerging Market Fintech and Biz Development #81
August 14, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hayden Simmons Hayden 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 te...
Hayden Simmons - Emerging Market Fintech and Biz Development #82
August 14, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hayden Simmons Hayden 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 te...
Ken Youens-Clark - Music Major Turned Scientific Programmer #81
August 10, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ken Youens-Clark. Biography Ken 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, con...
Naomi Ceder - Fostering a Global Python Community #80
August 06, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Naomi Ceder. Biography Naomi 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...
Stephen Wolfram - What Is The Future Of Computing? #79
August 03, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBWelcome 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 respons...
Dr. Ryan Rosario - How to Excel at Statistics and Computer Science? #78
July 30, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBWelcome 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 u...
Michael Hartl - PhD In Physics Turned Education Entrepreneur #77
July 27, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael Hartl Michael 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 Da...
Emily Robinson & Jacqueline Nolis – How To Jump Into Data Science from Any Background? #76
July 23, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBWelcome 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 regu...
James Schaffer - Learning to Code After Years of Social Advocacy
July 20, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBWelcome 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 equ...
Simon Willison - Data Journalism, The Importance of Side Projects #74
July 16, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBWelcome 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 sin...
Caitlyn Greffly - From Beer Sales to Coding Via Thinkful Bootcamp #73
July 13, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBWelcome 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....
Leon Mallett - Why Do Generalists Thrive in Digital Marketing? #72
July 08, 2020 20:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Leon Mallett Leon 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...
Zhenya Antić - Finding Work-Life Balance as a Linguist and Freelance NLP Consultant #71
July 06, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Zhenya Antić Zhenya 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 N...
Dr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen – Controversy Detection in Social Media #70
July 02, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen 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 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 re...
Diane Burley – Tech Content Marketing & Storytelling #69
June 29, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBWelcome 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 o...
Vicki Boykis – Econ Major Turned Machine Learning Engineer #68
June 25, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBWelcome 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....
Adam Cheyer - Co-Founder of Siri, Viv Labs, and Change.org #67
June 22, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBWelcome 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 engineer...
Charity Majors - Systems Engineer & Cofounder of Honeycomb.io #66
June 18, 2020 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Charity Majors 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. 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.” ...
Erik Bernhardsson - Spotify, Recommendation Algorithms & Hiring #65
June 15, 2020 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBWelcome 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 ...
Michael Tuso - What Does It Take To Be In Tech Sales? #64
June 11, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael Tuso Michael 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...
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy - Controlling Artificial Super-Intelligence #63
June 08, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBWelcome 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...
Sona Maniyan - Stay-At-Home Mom Turned Sr. Data Scientist #62
June 01, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBWelcome 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...
John Carnell - MBA Grad Turned Tech Architect, Manager #61
May 27, 2020 03:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBWelcome 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 o...
Peter Bell - Founder of CTO Connection, Psychotherapist #60
May 25, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Peter Bell Peter 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. H...
Jonathan Cutrell - Eng. Manager, Podcast Host of Developer Tea #59
May 21, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jonathan Cutrell Jonathan 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 do...
Arun Ganesan - Embedded Systems Engineer at Ford #58
May 18, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Arun Ganesan 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 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 b...
Drew Lazzeri - Lumberjack Turned Programmer Pursues Music #57
May 14, 2020 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Drew Lazzeri 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, 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...
Chris Love & Jay Vyas - Kubernetes, Large Scale Distributed Systems #56
May 11, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guests are Chris Love and Jay Vyas. The first five people who email the show at [email protected] 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!! Biography Chris Love is a 20-year veteran consu...
Michael Hausenblas – Academia to Dev Advocate at AWS, Red Hat #55
May 07, 2020 00:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBWelcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael Hausenblas. 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 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, Mic...
Nadeem Chaudhry - CTO of Jobot, AI Powered Job Search #54
May 03, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBWelcome 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 spac...
Mike Gamson - CEO of Relativity, Former VP of Sales at LinkedIn #53
April 30, 2020 02:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBWelcome 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 m...
Liz Phillips - Theatre, Grace Hopper Coding Bootcamp #52
April 27, 2020 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBWelcome 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 prou...
Josh Wills - Statistician, Former Director of Data Engineering at Slack #51
April 23, 2020 01:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBWelcome 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 C...
Chidamber Kulkarni - rENIAC, FPGAs & Database Acceleration #50
April 19, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBWelcome 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 Engineer...
Jeff Meyerson - Poker Player Launches Tech Podcast, Software Engineering Daily #49
April 16, 2020 02:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBWelcome 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 i...
Geoff Harcourt – CTO of Literacy Non-profit, CommonLit #48
April 13, 2020 03:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBWelcome 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 prob...
Jennifer Creighton – English Grad Turned Software Architect, Speaker #47
April 09, 2020 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBWelcome 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 careers Episode Summary “Doing a major in English is very technically heavy, and so I think a lot of that transfers into engineering....
Olivia Liddell - Arabic Teacher Turned Curriculum Developer at AWS (#46)
April 04, 2020 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBWelcome 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 ant...
Jody Mulkey - CTO of GoodRx, former CPO of Aspiration (#45)
April 02, 2020 01:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBWelcome 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 le...
Aline Lerner – Pro Chef Starts Tech Recruiting Firm, Interviewing.io (#44)
March 29, 2020 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBWelcome 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-sig...