Carolina Code Cast™

In Greenville, our community is made up of numerous different meetup groups from around the area covering a multitude of different topics, getting together on Slack and Discord . Many of these groups are coordinated and supported under via Hack Greenville and RefactorGVL . Greenville is not unique in this either. Numerous tech communities exist in the southeast, particularly in our orbit around So...

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Episode Summary In this episode of the Carolina Codecast, host Barry Jones talks with Eric Weissmann, Executive Director of NextGEN, about his career journey from Cincinnati and the Walt Disney Company to Greenville. Eric discusses his work in entrepreneurial ecosystem building, his role at Cintrifuse, and his current efforts to foster innovation and startup growth in the Greenville area. They del...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Ryan Edge, Software Development Lead with Uptech Studio. Get to know Ryan ahead of his 2024 Carolina Code Conference keynote as he recounts his journey, Uptech's support for startups with advancements in cross-platform development using Flutter and backend solutions with NodeJS. He shares his involvement with th...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones sits down with Gavin Coyle, Head of Growth at Enok Collective, to discuss his diverse career journey from biology to technology. Gavin talks about his role as a product manager and agile coach, and the mentorship culture he's developing through Mentorship in Tech, formerly EngineerKit. He shares insights into the challenge...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chat with Pete Broderick, Co-Owner of Simply Binary and Co-Founder of Slipstream. During the episode Barry and Pete talk about moving from Virginia to Greenville, good habits, health, fitness and discipline to manage work and family life, the meetup experience in the area and Simply Binary’s commitment over the hears to help fac...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Ben Trent, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Elastic. During the episode Barry and Ben talk about his journey into software from a math degree, extensive discussion of the Georgia Tech online Computer Science Masters degree, his time at Rackspace, working with Inference Systems at Elastic, dig deep into machine le...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Bruce and Maggie Tate with Grox.io and the GigCityElixir Conference. During the episode they will talk about their grand adventure, buying a boat and taking it on the Great Loop from the Tennessee River, to the Mississippi, out to the Atlantic Ocean, up the coast, through New York to the Great Lakes and back down the...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Luke Kapustka with DEF CON 864 (DC864). During the episode Barry and Luke talk about his work as one of the community leads for DC864, the origins and growth of the group, his experience in the security industry as a penetration tester and social engineer. We’ll learn about popular tools like Burp Suite, hear stories...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Olivia Evans, Community Manager at Flywheel. During the episode Barry and Olivia talk about her career path from Anderson to San Antonio to Winston Salem and finally coming back to Greenville. We discuss Flywheel Coworking, history, its foundation, events like Tech Slam’n Eggs, the Flywheel Cafe and open houses. We wi...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Vincent Mayers, JUG Leader, Java Champion and Conference Organizer. During the episode Barry and Vincent talk about the upcoming Devnexus Java Conference in Atlanta on April 9th-11th, the journey from Boy Scouts, pottery and professional kayaking in London to tech recruiting in Atlanta turning into a multicity tech co...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chat with Barry Johnson, Trainer and CTO of Seek Quality. During episode, Barry Johnson talks about his career from early beginnings as a student at Clemson, through starting Carolina Online which eventually became Nuvox Communications and now Windstream, watching the formation of the internet at Clemson culminating with his pos...

Episode Summary This week on a special edition of the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chat with John Warner…twice! Due to some technical difficulties that prevented his original interview from running as Episode 2 ahead of the Innoventures Futures Festival in September, so we had John back on the show in November to talk about how things went and what the future looks like. In this special ep...

Episode Summary In this special Valentine’s episode of the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with his wife, Christie Jones, Owner and President of Therapy360. During the episode they talk about the journey of starting and growing Therapy360 over the last 17 years, balancing work life, family life, conference preparation and almost 20 years of marriage while enjoying their evening tea afte...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Don Sullivan, Senior Software Engineer at Simply Binary. During the episode, Barry and Don talk about traveling around the USA with a travel trailer while working remote as a software engineer, trying tacos in every state, family fun with uranium mines, a unique self-taught path into a programming career, getting into...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Charles Nutter, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. During the episode, Barry and Charles talk about his globe trotting conference tours talking about JRuby including Okinawa, Taipei, Brussels, San Diego, Detroit, Atlanta and of course Greenville as we get deep into JRuby and the JVM, new features, future p...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Lelia King, Executive Director of Build Carolina. During the episode, Barry and Lelia talk about Build Carolina, its multiple programs such as the Carolina Code School, the Develop Carolina Apprenticeship Program, SC Codes, her journey to getting here, history with The Iron Yard and what’s involved with supporting the...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Hunter Hodnett, CTO and Co-founder at Chipp. AI . During the episode, Barry and Hunter talk about his journey from San Francisco to consulting with startups in Austin’s snowpocalypse, starting a meetup and getting involved Greenville as well as co-founding an AI company based out of Fargo, North Dakota. There’s even a...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Joey Loman, Shopmaster at SynergyMill. During this episode, Barry and Joey talk about the building things, fabricating prototypes, 3D printing, robotics, Ham radio, dialing into Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), making TV studios, running telecom companies, hacking stories (allegedly) and community building. “I have one...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Christina Roberts, Chairwoman of the Board at the Agile Learning Institute. During this episode, Barry and Christina talk about opening technology careers via mentorship from the Agile Learning Institute, the Persevere program helping people learn to code from prison without an internet connection, local Women Who Cod...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Jake Hennett, Software Engineer with Lima One Capital . During this episode, Barry and Jake talk about all sorts of things from “No Code” solutions with MuleSoft, Create React apps, the value in learning unpopular things, software in the finance world, balancing work, family and education, focus and motivation for dev...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Liz Johnson, Staff Software Engineer with Silicon Hemisphere . During this episode, Barry and Liz talk about her talks at PyCon and PyData around Python, AI and data science as well as her experience with PHP+Laravel and Ruby on Rails. Liz explains Vectors and TFIDF (Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency) in a m...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Eric Burden, IT Senior Principal Consultant with NTT Data Services. During the episode, Barry and Eric talk about moving from Memphis to Pickens, plugging into the local tech community in the upstate with Hack Greenville, the Code Connector community in Memphis, teaching with a heart for service, getting into R for da...

Episode Summary This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Jās Eckard, YAML Engineer at VMWare/SaltStack. During the episode, Barry and Jās talk about Salt Stack, Ansible, YAML configuration management, Terraform, ToFu, the IDEM Project, Southeast Linux Fest, Upstate Carolina Linux Users Group (UCLUG) and Columbia too, benefits of speaking at local meetups and how we learn mo...