Season 9

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Chapter № 008 Jan 23, 2024 •21:15

S9 E8: The IoT Data Backbone: Engineering Ultra-Lightweight MQTT Architectures and Scaling Critical Edge Infrastructure with Roger Light, Creator of Eclipse Mosquitto & Co-Founder of Cedalo

Infrastructure System Design Real-Time Systems

Roger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post graduating, he did research, then taught. But in parallel, he …

Chapter Jan 18, 2024 •28:32

S9 Bonus: From an SAP Innovation Lab Concept to a 4-Time Inc. 5000 Heavyweight: Bypassing the Flat Paper Instruction Manual with Nate Henderson, Co-founder & CEO of BILT

Product Development Enterprise Software Growth Strategy

Nathan Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia, where he actually met his now co-founder, back when he was 5 years old. His wife grew up in Mexico, and …

Chapter Jan 17, 2024 •24:07

S9 Bonus: The Open-Source Supply Chain Shield: Eliminating Malicious Dependencies and Automating Repository Governance with Craig McLuckie, Co-Creator of Kubernetes & CEO of Stacklok

Security & Compliance Open Source Automation

Craig McLuckie is a self proclaimed boring guy - monochromatic, as he put it. At one point, he tried retiring from his professional ventures - IE building technology …

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Chapter № 007 Jan 16, 2024 •21:20

S9 E7: Aggregating Distributed Git Telemetry and Eliminating Developer Burnout Without Micro-Management with Naomi Chopra, Co-Founder & CEO of Hatica

Engineering Leadership Team Building Observability & Monitoring

Naomi Chopra grew up in Delhi, India, but attended Grad school in the US, specifically in Atlanta. He worked in the valley for several companies, including Uber, but …

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Chapter № 006 Jan 10, 2024 •30:58

S9 E6: Engineering Proactive Cash Flow Frameworks and Overthrowing Reactive Budgeting Anxiety with Melissa Pancoast, Founder & CEO of The Beans

Fintech Growth Strategy Payments & Billing

Melissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, being outside skiing or rowing. The latter was a huge part of her …

Chapter Jan 04, 2024 •31:41

S9 Bonus: The Edge-Computing Architecture Blueprint: Breaking Server Latency and Scaling Developer-First Feature Flags with Jonathan Norris, Co-Founder & CTO of DevCycle & Taplytics

Infrastructure Developer Tools Automation Real-Time Systems

Jonathan Norris lives in Toronto, and has a passion for tech that started early in his life. He has participated in the First Robotics competition, which got him …

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Chapter № 005 Jan 02, 2024 •25:49

S9 E5: The Identity Workflow Revolution: Engineering Drag-and-Drop Authentication and Shattering the Build-vs-Buy Tax with Gilad Shriki, Co-Founder of Descope

Product Development Developer Tools Identity & Access

Gilad Shriki was born and raised in Israel. He loves the outdoors, and loves to travel. Skiing in a passion of his, and he loves to explore new …

Chapter Dec 28, 2023 •20:32

S9 Favorite: The Pop-Culture Video Engine: Bootstrapping & Scaling ClassHook to Acquisition with Alexander Deeb

Bootstrapping EdTech

Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him through his life, and his parents pushed him to do well …

Chapter Dec 21, 2023 •32:20

S9 Bonus: Squeezing Maximum Conversion from 130,000 A/B Tests and Killing the Competitor-Copying Fallacy with Sahil Patel, CEO of Spiralyze

Product Development Growth Strategy Product-Market Fit

Sahil Patel has lived in Atlanta for 12 years now, but has made a lifetime of leaving Atlanta... and the coming back. He attended undergrad in ATL, and …

Chapter Dec 20, 2023 •44:15

S9 Bonus: The Expedia of InsurTech: Overthrowing Health Insurance Jargon and Engineering AI-Powered Personalized Enrollment Rails with Ariel Dominguez & Irena Tigranyan, Co-Founders of HealthBird

Fintech LLM & Generative AI AI Integration

Ariel Dominguez has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started his first company at age 15, selling websites in Miami, hiring family members before he …

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Chapter № 004 Dec 19, 2023 •30:14

S9 E4: The CI/CD Optimization Blueprint: Bypassing Bloated Dev Pipelines and Slashing Cloud Expenses with Predictive Test Selection with Ayal Regev, Co-Founder & CTO of Redefine.dev

Developer Tools DevOps Growth Strategy

Ayal Regev lives in Tel Aviv, and continues working hard on his startup, despite the hostage conflict in the country at the time of this recording. Prior to …

Chapter Dec 14, 2023 •24:01

S9 Bonus: The Immigration Risk Fabric: Bypassing Legal Friction with Data-Driven Onboarding Maps and Global Mobility Engines with Leonardo Shapiro, Founder & CEO of Not Alien

Automation Compliance & Privacy AI Integration

Leonardo Shapiro is originally from Mexico City. His family was from Russia and Poland, but ended up being in Mexico City after being denied from the US. He …