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Chapter № 024 May 15, 2024 •28:48

S9 E24: The Data Streaming Renaissance: Bypassing JVM Bloat and Squeezing 10x Performance From Modern Hardware Engines with Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO of Redpanda Data

Data Engineering Scaling Systems Founder Story

Alex Gallego was born and raised in Colombia. He has always identified as a builder, and as a kid, he would help his Uncle re-build dirt bike engines, …

Chapter May 09, 2024 •38:35

S9 Bonus: The Bootstrapped ALM Blueprint: Reaching $20M ARR With Zero Venture Capital and Automating Risk-Aware Quality Assurance with Adam Sandman, Founder & CEO of Inflectra

Automation Bootstrapping

Adam Sandman grew up in Wales, in the United Kingdom. He went to university to study physics, because he had a fascination and desire to understand how things …

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Chapter № 023 May 07, 2024 •18:59

S9 E23: The $120M War Chest Shift: Overthrowing Legacy Payment Bottlenecks and Accelerating the Path to Fintech Unicorn Status with Vlad Sadovskiy, Founder & CEO of Netevia

Fintech Founder Story Payments & Billing

Vlad Sadovskiy is a first generation immigrant from the Ukraine in the early 1990's. He has been in the payments space for 30+ years, so he knows a …

Chapter May 02, 2024 •37:19

S9 Bonus: From Film Tech to Architecting a Bitcoin-Backed Bretton Woods System: Overthrowing Custodial Bridging Risks with Sasha Mitchell, Head of BeL2 & Founder of Elacity

Fintech Cloud Architecture

Sasha Mitchell living in Bangkok, Thailand, but grew up in London. He stared in the creative industries, as one side of his family are architects and the other …

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Chapter № 022 Apr 30, 2024 •23:59

S9 E22: From Meeting His Co-Founder on Tinder to Leading a YC Startup in a War Zone: Scaling an On-Demand Creative Marketplace Under Fire with Roman Sevast, Co-founder & President of Awesomic

Marketplace Founder Story Growth Strategy

Roman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her out to dinner - but he didn't have …

Chapter Apr 25, 2024 •20:23

S9 Bonus: The Metadata Breakthrough: Bypassing Legacy Tree Walks and Scaling Real-Time AI Dataset Ingestion with Björn Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO of Quobyte

Data Engineering Scaling Systems Real-Time Systems

When asked about his life outside of tech, Björn Kolbeck stated "Is there anything outside of tech?". He has made his hobby into his job, being exposed to …

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Chapter № 021 Apr 23, 2024 •19:34

S9 E21: The Synthetic Audio Frontier: Overthrowing the "Uncanny Valley" and Engineering Ethical, Human-Parity AI Voices with Matt Hocking, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of WellSaid Labs

LLM & Generative AI AI Integration

Matt Hocking has a background in design, and started off as a graphic designer in Australia. He moved into lecturing while running a design school, which led him …

Chapter Apr 18, 2024 •19:12

S9 Bonus: Whats New with Alice Technologies - Rene Morkos, Founder & CEO

Automation Founder Story

Welcome back listeners.Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. If you recall our conversation with Rene from …

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Chapter № 020 Apr 16, 2024 •24:14

S9 E20: Investor Attraction Blueprint: Overthrowing Legacy Outreach and Engineering Founder-First Public Relations Engine with Michael Hummel, Co-Founder & CEO of Establish

Founder Story Growth Strategy

Michael Hummel has a different perspective on tech and startups than most people in this realm. His background dis in marketing, and prior to his current venture, he …

Chapter Apr 11, 2024 •29:41

S9 Bonus: Demystifying Unit 8200’s Cyber Warfare Dominance and Launching a New Cloud Efficiency Engine with Alon Arvatz, Author of The Battle for Your Computer & CEO of PointFive

Infrastructure Security & Compliance Cloud Architecture

Alon Arvatz has been in tech for a long time. Fun fact, he loved technology but hated computer science. After getting introduced to the industry by his father, …

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Chapter № 019 Apr 09, 2024 •30:03

S9 E19: The Event-Native API Revolution: Unifying Synchronous Rest and Asynchronous Kafka Pipelines with Linus Håkansson, Chief Product Officer at Gravitee

API Design System Design Real-Time Systems

Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He's a family …

Chapter Apr 04, 2024 •32:51

S9 Bonus: Doing the Work of a Whole DevOps Team, with just two people - Erin Marie & Jesus Maria of MSquared

Engineering Leadership Staffing & Resources DevOps

Erin Marie has been in tech for 20 years. Prior to tech, she was a history major but became more passionate about building websites and technology. She went …