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Genie is an open-source tool that provides job and resource management for the Hadoop ecosystem in the cloud. Tom Gianos is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix focusing on its big data platform. He is one of the core contributors in charge of maintaining and improving Genie.

Pachyderm is a containerized data analytics platform that seeks to replace Hadoop. Joe Doliner is the Co-founder and CEO of Pachyderm. Previously he worked as a software engineer at RethinkDB and AirBnB.

DemocracyOS is an open-source application for online decision making. The organization’s goal is to enable more responsive and transparent communication with government using modern technology. Santiago Siri is the president of DemocracyOS.

ReadMe is simplifying the process of writing documentation. The platform provides a readymade developer hub with the ability to integrate API endpoints into documentation. Greg Koberger is a developer and designer, and the founder of ReadMe. He previously founded a traveling incubator and worked for Mozilla.

It provides automated code grading, plagiarism checking, code quality analysis and additional course management tools. Prah Veluvolu is the CEO and Co-founder of Mimir. He studied at Purdue University and participated in the Boiler Startup Accelerator before graduating from the Y Combinator Summer 2015 class.

Fullstack Academy is a 13-week immersive program for students to learn software engineering. Their flagship course focuses primarily on Javascript and the associated frameworks used to build real-world web applications. David Yang and Nimit Maru are the Co-founders of Fullstack Academy. They were part of the Y Combinator summer 2012 class.

Yhat is an enterprise software company tackling the challenge of how data science gets done. Their products enable companies and users to easily deploy data science environments and translate analytical models into production code. Greg Lamp is the Co-founder and CTO of Yhat and previously worked as a product manager in financial services. Yhat was part of the Y Combinator winter 2015 class.

Kaggle is a platform for data scientists to collaborate and compete on machine learning problems with the opportunity to win money from the competitions’ sponsors. Ben Hamner is the co-founder and CTO of Kaggle.

Many companies find themselves drowning in data. The quantity of data matters far less than the right questions in the pursuit of actionable insights. Edwin Chen is a data scientist and blogger. He previously led data science teams at Dropbox and Google.

Yad Faeq returns to the podcast to discuss data science at a high level, and rescue Software Engineering Daily from the threat of the hype vortex. Yad is a software engineer, currently working on machine learning applications. Yad first appeared on Software Engineering Daily on Episode 0, the inaugural show.

Dataquest is an in-browser platform for learning data science that is tackling this problem. Vik Paruchuri is the founder of Dataquest. He was previously a machine learning engineer at EdX and before that a U.S. diplomat.

Successfully solving a problem often demands a strong model for communication and well-trained robots. Stefanie Tellex is an assistant professor at Brown University whose research focuses on constructing robots that use natural language to communicate with humans.

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ChickTech: High School builds girls’ confidence, teaches them vital skills, and introduces them to a wide range of technological interests, from robotics to game design to programming. Janice Levenhagen is the Founder and Executive Director of ChickTech.

Pivotal makes software platforms and database products to enable enterprises to make use of their data. Sarah Aerni is principal data scientist at Pivotal.

Well-known tech companies of Silicon Valley sponsor the next generation of female software engineers emerging from these dinners. Sukrutha Bhadouria is a software engineer at Salesforce and the Managing Director of Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners.

Former Andreesen-Horowitz partner Preethi Kasireddy saw excited software engineers coming through the doors every day, pitching their ideas. This was her impetus to take the leap and make the career switch to software engineering. She is attending Hack Reactor, a 12-week coding boot camp.

Businesses can make changes to apps using Apptimize’s powerful and friendly editor, and free up developers’ time for more impactful work. Nancy Hua is the Founder and CEO of Apptimize. She worked in high-frequency trading prior to starting a company. This is the first show of Women in Tech Week, where we will discuss the inequalities women in tech face, and see what solutions may exist for this pr...

Mobile devices use a virtual machine to interpret the JavaScript into native code. Tadeu Zagallo is a Facebook engineer who works on React Native for iOS.

Fluxxor is a set of tools for building JavaScript data layers using the Flux architecture. It was one of the earliest open-source implementations of Flux. Brandon Tilley is a software engineer who works at The Minerva Project. He is the creator of Fluxxor.

These technologies complement the paradigm shift of React and other Facebook technologies. Nick Schrock is the co-creator of GraphQL and an engineer on product infrastructure at Facebook.

Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript to use with React or any other view library. Dan Abramov currently works full time on Redux, React Hot Loader, and React Transform.

Facebook engineering has recently produced a powerful suite of loosely coupled tools for development: React, GraphQL, Relay, React Native, and Flux Architecture. Ben Alpert is an engineer on the React Core team at Facebook.

It offers users a way to build full-fledged web apps from their React components. Michael Jackson works on React Router and is the founder of ReactJS Training. He will be speaking at the upcoming QCon San Francisco.