Engineering People Podcast
55 episodes - English - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRyan Carson, CEO and Founder of Treehouse, interviews the world’s leading engineering managers - so we can learn from their experience and ideas.
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Introducing: Change Wave
December 20, 2018 17:11 - 50 seconds - 1.9 MBChange Wave is a new Treehouse podcast that takes an exclusive look at the real, first-hand stories of how cutting-edge leaders rose to the top, smashed through barriers and created real change. Subscribe to Change Wave wherever you get your podcasts. See you there!
Robby Russell
December 10, 2018 20:46 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBRobby Russell is the VP of Engineering at Planet Argon.
Josh Schlanger
December 05, 2018 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBJosh Schlanger is the Vice President of DevOps and IT at Demandbase, currently leading the teams that manage all the infrastructure, security and compliance, release management and end user support to help Demandbase achieve and maintain its status as the leader in Account Based Marketing (ABM). With 20 years of experience with public and private cloud, security, compliance, big data, and business applications, he was fortunate enough to have been part of an acquisition by IBM as well as an ...
Alexander Gladshtein
December 04, 2018 09:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBAlexander Gladshtein is the Director of Software Development at CBORD, which powers access, card, foodservice, housing, nutrition and diet office management systems for healthcare, higher education, and business campuses.
Nathan Stott
December 03, 2018 09:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBNathan Stott is the VP of Architecture at Influence Health.
Nathan Mumm
November 30, 2018 09:00 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBNathan Mumm is the Chief Technology Officer at BluZEBRA Technologies and the Chief Information Security Officer at Copiers Northwest.
Ted Neward
November 29, 2018 09:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBTed Neward is an industry professional of twenty years' experience. He speaks at conferences all over the world and writes regularly for a variety of publications across the Java, .NET, and other ecosystems. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, dog, four cats, eight laptops, seven tablets, nine phones, and a rather large utility bill.
Patrick McFadin
November 28, 2018 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBPatrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of DataStax products successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years.
Dan Harden
November 27, 2018 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBDan Harden is an Engineering Manager at Condé Nast. He and his team work within a family of over 20 iconic brands (such as WIRED, The New Yorker, and Vogue), each with their own unique style. He has a keen interest in shaping the future of journalism, and he is passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them achieve their career goals.
Tal Broner
November 21, 2018 11:30 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBTal Broner is Vice President of Software Engineering at Egnyte, overseeing product development and innovation. Tal has held a variety of leadership positions in engineering, product management and global operations for large-scale cloud and on-premise enterprise software solutions companies. Prior to Egnyte he served as Vice President of R&D in HP’s Enterprise Software division with responsibility for the IT Service Management products, generating over $500 Million in annual revenue. He was ...
Chris Cortez
November 20, 2018 12:30 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBChris Cortez is Vice President of Engineering for Apex Clearing, the technology platform for the most innovative Fintech and Financial Services firms. In two and a half years, he has tripled the size of his Engineering organization to support the runaway growth of Apex customers and industry segment. In addition to his work in technology leadership, Cortez produced the film No No: A Dockumentary, which premiered in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on ...
Virgil Beaston
November 19, 2018 13:00 - 9 minutes - 8.67 MBVirgil Beaston is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Powin Energy and has been with the company since 2011. Beaston has over 10 years of experience in the battery and energy storage industry and is often asked to speak publicly as a subject matter expert. He views business and the rapidly growing storage sector from a unique perspective as he previously was a patent attorney at an intellectual property law firm and then was a co-founder and CTO of a start-up com...
Dan Gaul
November 16, 2018 17:32 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBDan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males. As CTO, Dan is responsible for site part...
Raj Gupta
October 26, 2018 21:33 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBRaj Gupta is a Silicon Valley executive with over 25yrs of experience in leading product strategy, innovation, and global software development teams at technology startups as well as multinationals like Oracle Corporation. He is currently the CTO and SVP Engineering at Navis Inc., a leader in supply chain and maritime software, where he leads all product and engineering activities. Under his leadership Navis is leading the way for fully autonomous port operations and shipping, and making glo...
Dan Gaul
October 25, 2018 18:30 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBDan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males. As CTO, Dan is responsible for site partner ...
Raghu Konka
October 24, 2018 15:03 - 8 minutes - 7.73 MBRaghu Konka is the Vice President of Engineering at iPass Inc. an industry pioneer in global Wi-Fi and Intelligent mobile connectivity platform. Since joining iPass Engineering in 2001, he developed & architected various service components and led different teams. He is now responsible for all aspects of iPass SmartConnect SaaS platform that comprise of iPass SmartClients & SDK, Big Data & Veri-Fi Analytics, Authentication Fabric, Billing & Reporting systems and Location services. Learn how...
Rob Reesor
October 23, 2018 15:12 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBRob Reesor is Senior Vice President of Product Development at Planview, Inc., where he is currently responsible for all development and testing of three of Planview’s Work and Resource Management applications. After graduating from the University of Oregon with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science, Rob launched a 30+ year career as a developer, team lead, manager, director and vice president. He left Silicon Valley to move to Austin in 2000 as part of an acquisition of a compa...
Dmitry Fonarev
October 22, 2018 17:16 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBDmitry Fonarev has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise, Application, SaaS and embedded software development, as well as extensive experience with managing multiple on and offshore teams across various product development functions. He is currently SVP of Product Dev at SmartBear Software. Prior to SmartBear, Dmitry was Vice President of Engineering at Dell Software Group which he joined through the vKernel acquisition. At vKernel, he helped drive the company to profitability by ...
Arun Samuga
October 19, 2018 15:41 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBArun Samuga is the Vice President of Platform Engineering at Elemica, a digital supply chain company. Over the last 23 years, he has delivered software solutions for the aviation, retail, finance, utility and process industry verticals in various countries namely India, UAE, Japan, the UK and the USA. At Elemica, he oversaw the development of a patented Business to Business cloud integration platform using world class talent and emerging technologies. He also actively researched applicabilit...
John Bullard
October 18, 2018 04:30 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBJohn Bullard is the Vice President of Engineering at Distil Networks. Based in San Francisco, he leads the edge platform and data engineering team. Before joining Distil John confounded two tech startups, both of which are still active. Prior to entering the startup world John was a member of the Office 365 launch team at Microsoft where he focused on cloud security and scalability. Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn F...
Chris McCooey
October 12, 2018 04:15 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBChris McCooey is VP of Engineering for B2C at Purch. He oversees engineering teams delivering web and mobile experiences to Purch’s brands. Purch helps people buy better. Chris’ mission is to build technology that honors the intent of Purch’s users. With over 20 years leading software teams, Chris is passionate about developing engineers, nurturing innovators and creating experiences that delight users. Previously, Chris worked at Cnet and CBS Interactive running search, API and platform tea...
Robert Stewart
October 11, 2018 04:15 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBRobert Stewart is the CTO and Chief Architect at Castlight Health and has been with Castlight since 2011. He led the engineering teams that built Castlight Action, a fully-automated platform for benefits professionals to leverage data and machine learning algorithms to connect employees to the right benefits and programs. Robert previously held senior development and management positions at Voxify, Avaya, and Lucent Bell Labs, and has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Philosophy from Rice U...
Don Thompson
October 10, 2018 04:15 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBDon Thompson is VP of Software Development at Nextech Systems, a leading specialty specific Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software company. He has worked his entire career at Nextech, starting at a coop position 18 years ago as the company grew from 10 employees to its current size of over 250. Don received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Dayton in Computer Science. Don currently lives in Tampa, FL. Most of his free time is spent staying active, he can oft...
Ben Adida
October 01, 2018 04:15 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBBen Adida is VP Engineering at Clever, the leading K-12 education platform. His passion is using technology to empower individuals and level the playing field. Ben has extensive experience in identity, payments, voting technology, health IT, security & privacy, and Web architecture. He has developed free software for 20 years and Web software for close to 25 years. He is a Board Member at the non-profit Creative Commons. Previously, Ben was Director of Engineering at Square, Director of Engi...
Tim Goodwin
September 28, 2018 04:05 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-goodwin-6349631/
Nidhi Gupta
September 26, 2018 04:05 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBNidhi Gupta is Senior Vice President of Technology at Hired, a marketplace that matches tech talent with the world’s most innovative companies. Nidhi leads the company’s global engineering, developer operations and product teams. Nidhi is a skilled engineer and product executive who is passionate about building and growing thriving product and engineering organizations that deliver world-class products at scale. Prior to Hired, Nidhi was Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering at To...
Andy Markham
September 24, 2018 16:01 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBAndy is responsible for leading the technology development and innovation efforts for Healthline. Andy bring over 20 years of experience with technical operations, software engineering, and product development for companies across a variety of industries. Prior to joining the Healthline, Andy led engineering for several divisions/acquisitions for the Monster.com team. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Math from UNC - Chapel Hill. His hobbies include volleyb...
Christian McCarrick
September 21, 2018 04:30 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBChristian McCarrick is the VP of Engineering for Auth0 where he manages a globally distributed team. He is dedicated to improving the craft of software engineering leadership. He volunteers his time to mentor through the Everwise and Plato networks and teaches engineering workshops for new engineering managers. He also hosts a popular podcast called SimpleLeadership where he interviews top technology leaders in order to help other managers grow and be successful. LinkedIn: https://www....
Leonid Movsesyan
September 19, 2018 04:01 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBLeonid Movsesyan is Vice President of Engineering at Cadre. Before joining Cadre, he was a Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox where he led teams responsible for reliability, efficiency and performance of their services. Leonid has also worked at Yelp as a Senior Reliability Engineer, and at Yandex as Co-Head of Infrastructure, managing teams responsible for common infrastructure components and tools. He received his Master’s in Computer Science from Moscow State Industrial University. L...
Kevin Skibbe
September 17, 2018 04:01 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBKevin Skibbe is the VP of Engineering at BetterCloud where he is responsible for the day to day duties of the Development, Test Engineering, and Architecture teams. Kevin's passion is to continually bridge the gap between technology, business, customer, and partner teams. Before joining BetterCloud, Kevin held several positions as a software engineer and engineering leader. Kevin is a native Georgian and holds both an MS and BS in Computer Science from Columbus State University. ...
Dr. Anurag Maunder
September 10, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBDr. Anurag Maunder is an SVP of Engineering at Kindred AI, an artificial intelligence company that solves human problems with autonomous robots. He started his career with prestigious AT&T Bell Labs. He was the Founder, CTO of Kazeon Systems that was acquired by EMC and the Founder CEO of dLoop that was acquired by Box. In last few years, he established the Advanced Development lab for EMC to focus on Machine learning for automating storage configurations and also created Johnson Controls ...
Prashant Pandey
September 04, 2018 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30.3 MBAs head of engineering, Prashant leads Asana’s growing engineering organization towards high velocity, sustainability, and quality. Before joining Asana, Prashant started and led the Bay Area team building Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service. He also led engineering for mobile advertising start-up Vdopia and worked on storage systems at IBM Research. Prashant earned an M.S. in Computer Science from UIUC, and a BTech(Hons) in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani. LinkedIn:...
Zak Stengel
August 27, 2018 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBZak Stengel is the SVP of Engineering at The Trade Desk, which is a global technology company that provides a platform for advertisers to reach target audiences across any device in real time. Since 2013, Zak has led The Trade Desk’s Engineering team through massive growth, from a single team of 8 people to a global organization of nearly 200 across 12 offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. In this time, the team has driven a technological expansion to a scaled platfor...
Eric Richard
August 20, 2018 04:00 - 28 minutes - 20.1 MBEric Richard is the SVP of Engineering at HubSpot, where he oversees HubSpot’s global product development teams. Eric brings more than two decades of experience in the tech industry as a founder, CTO, engineering, and business leader. Eric's focus has been on managing and mentoring impactful software development, support, IT, security and operations teams while creating and implementing information security programs, supporting agile culture, and creating empowering environments for engineer...
Mike Herrick
August 13, 2018 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBMike Herrick is the SVP of Product & Engineering at Urban Airship and is responsible for developing, operating, supporting, and sustaining UrbanAirship’s products. He joined the company in 2010. Prior to Urban Airship, Mike was the Vice President of Products for Collaborative Software Initiative. In that role, he was responsible for product management, product development, technical support, and hosted operations. Prior to Collaborative Software Initiative, Mike built a broad backgroun...
Roger Gonzalez
August 06, 2018 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBRoger Gonzalez is the SVP of Product and Engineering for CreativeLive, where he leveraged his experience in building high-performing teams to transform development of the CreativeLive student experience. His eclectic career spans 27 years and includes everything from web development to AI for underwater robots. Roger has managed orgs with hundreds of developers spread across four continents, but found his passion in managing the chaos at smaller, fast-moving startups like CreativeLive. Lin...
Dan Neri
July 30, 2018 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.61 MBDan Neri is Director of UI Engineering at accesso, where he leads the application development of the Passport ticketing product suite. He is an engineering leader who is passionate about building highly productive teams and growing leaders who are both product driven and people focused. At accesso, he has helped scale their eCommerce platform to $1.5b across 20 countries, while cultivating an innovative engineering culture. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielaneri/
Tammy Wang
July 23, 2018 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBTammy Wang is the VP Data Science at Riviera Partners, where she is building AI solutions to disrupt the traditional recruiting model by matching elite tech executives with industry-leading innovators like Dropbox, Hulu, Doordash, Docker, & Airbnb. With a PhD in computer science, she has 17+ years of experience building & managing data teams that have driven growth at companies such as Zillow & Microsoft. She recently published a research paper in Communications of the ACM & is the author of...
Peter Troost
July 16, 2018 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBPeter Troost is responsible for Acquia’s Engineering organization, including platform as a service and software as a service products. Prior to joining Acquia, Peter has been in product leadership roles for 25 years in organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies including The Travelers, Gillette, and Oracle. Most recently Peter served as the CTO for Radius Worldwide responsible for all software as a service products. Peter has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a Bachelor of Science ...
Amy Wiley
July 09, 2018 04:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBAmy Wiley, Vice President of Engineering Services, Webroot As Vice President of Engineering Services, Amy is part of a global team that ranges from DevOps engineers, escalation engineers, quality assurance (QA) team members, and support engineers to customer retention agents, UX/UI designers, advanced malware removal analysts and threat research experts. In her role, Amy serves as the voice of the customer, working with development, QA, product management and sales and marketing to ensure...
Eric Schrock
July 02, 2018 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBEric Schrock is the CTO at Delphix, where he drives technology strategy and thought leadership around the future of enterprise data. He previously helped scale the Delphix product and team as VP of Engineering. His passion is for creating things, from woodworking and music to products and organizations. Prior to Delphix, Eric was a founding member of the team at Sun that built the ZFS Storage Appliance product. He started his career as a Solaris kernel hacker after earning a CS degree from B...
Seth Falcon
June 25, 2018 04:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBSeth is the VP of Engineering at Chef. He is a product-focused engineering leader who believes the essential elements for a high-performing team are shared purpose, clear communication, commitment to learning, and mechanisms for measuring outcomes. Seth began his career melding data analysis, software engineering, and open source project management at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he worked on the Bioconductor project and contributed to R. In 2010, he joined Chef Software,...
Mark Laplante
June 18, 2018 04:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBMark has been with ConnectWise, Inc for 14 years and is currently Senior Director of Product Development for the ConnectWise software. Mark is also chairman of the board of directors for Computer Mentors, a non-profit organization that teaches the fundamentals of programming, entrepreneurism, public speaking, and more to the underserved youth of our community. He is also on the ISDS Advisory Board for the MUMA College of Business at the University of South Florida. Since joining ConnectWi...
Thomas Price
June 11, 2018 04:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBThomas Price is the Director of Engineering of the Core Engineering division at the Standard where he focuses on the Core Applications and Enterprise Integration product teams. He was also until very recently responsible for the Application Security team at the Standard as well. Thomas started his career as a firmware developer and has slowly moved up the technology stack to desktop applications, mobile software and now enterprise software. He has spent a large portion of his career in regul...
Paul Hepworth
June 04, 2018 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBPaul Hepworth is the VP of Engineering for UserTesting and has used Agile and Lean practices to build UserTesting's human insights platform to help businesses make better decisions more quickly. Paul has been working in the tech industry for the past 20 years in software teams across the bay area. He has worked at large financial institutions and several small to medium startups. Over the past 13 years, Paul has taken interest in rolling out lean methodologies through continuous ...
Mikey Butler
May 28, 2018 04:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBMikey Butler is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at New Relic. He's responsible for Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Site Engineering Operations. He brings more than 30 years of experience in the software industry. The first half focused on system coding at Digital Equipment, Bank of America, Data General, Rolm and Sun. The latter half on engineering management for Cisco Systems, Sybase, BEA Systems, Intuit and, most recently, Seagate. And named one of the 50 Most Impor...
Katie Womersley
May 21, 2018 04:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBKatie is a Director of Engineering at Buffer, a globally distributed team with no offices, and O’Reilly author. At Buffer, she leads the engineering team focusing on crafting productive, effective teams, developing career frameworks and engineering management practices and delivering a world-class software product. She previously worked as a software engineer before moving into leadership. Her writing has appeared in The Next Web, Inc Magazine and Fast Company. LinkedIn: https://www.linked...
Tim Olshansky
May 14, 2018 04:00 - 12 minutes - 9.19 MBTim Olshansky is the Chief Technology Officer at Aconex, the most widely used online collaboration platform in the world for large capital projects. He joined Aconex in 2015 after the acquisition of a startup he co-founded, Worksite, the first fully cloud-based cost management system in the industry. He now leads the development of Aconex’s entire project collaboration solution, which powers some of the world’s largest projects like Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada. LinkedIn: https://www.lin...
Mark Barbir
May 07, 2018 07:30 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBMark Barbir is the SVP Software Engineering at MINDBODY, where he oversees the software development lifecycle, project management, and quality assurance. With over 20 years of experience in both mobile and web, his passion is building great products and teams. Prior to MINDBODY, Mark led product management and software engineering at SenseLabs, which delivered mobile performance brain training to NBA, NFL, Olympic and Red Bull athletes. His experience also includes supporting a diverse brea...
Wei Wei
April 30, 2018 08:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBWei Wei is the VP of Engineering at FreeWheel. He has been working at FreeWheel since 2007 (Comcast acquired FreeWheel in 2013). Wei played various roles in FreeWheel across Engineering, Client Services, and Business Operations in his 10-year tenure. Currently, he leads a Big Data Engineering team in New York to build a Cloud-based Linear Viewership data platform to help grow Comcast’s advertising business and drive the unification of Linear and Digital advertising. Wei has been an active...