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George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. George joins the podcast to talk about his path to becoming an investor, his data-first thesis about investment, The post Startup Investing with George Mathe...

This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Justin Cormack who is the CTO at Docker. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software The post KubeCon Special: Docker with Justin Cormack appeared first...

Josh Prismon is a veteran software architect, having worked at FICO for 17 years before shifting to Index Exchange in 2022. In this episode, Josh joins the podcast to speak with host Lee Atchison, who also has deep experience in software architecture from his time at Amazon, New Relic, and other companies. Josh and Lee The post Software Architecture with Josh Prismon appeared first on Software Eng...

Cox Automotive has been at the frontier of digitizing the automotive space with popular products such as AutoTrader, Kelly Blue Book, and Dealertrack. To deliver these products the company manages large quantities of data and diverse engineering teams. Scaling its operations required an engineering transformation of the company. Chris Dillon is the VP of Architecture The post Engineering Transform...

The Buy Now, Pay Later model, or BNPL, is traditionally a business-to-consumer model that is gaining traction in the business-to-business domain. Adoption of BNPL in business-to-business scenarios offers benefits like improved cash flow management for buyers, and increased sales for suppliers, often leading to higher order value. However, this model introduces complexities, including the need The...

As Companies scale and their codebase becomes large, it can become difficult to measure team effectiveness. With so many moving pieces, and an increased lack of visibility, Engineering Leaders mostly rely on gut feelings to guide decisions and determine impact. Uplevel pulls meta-data from programs like Git, Slack, Jira and public calendar events and uses The post Engineering Insights with Christi...

The company Continue has a new take on the resale marketplace. By partnering with brands and pulling post-purchase data onto their platform, this innovative solution simplifies and enhances the resale process, empowering consumers to participate in a more sustainable and circular economy. Richie Ganney and Harry Riley are the Co-founders of Continue and they join The post Resale Revolution with Ri...

In the Software Industry, Conferences are crucial for developers, offering learning, networking, and collaboration opportunities. Attendees stay updated on the latest technologies, gain new skills, and connect with peers. These events expose developers to industry trends, inspire innovation, and foster professional growth. Overall, Conferences play a vital role in advancing knowledge, building con...

Astasia is a Partner on Quiet Capital’s enterprise team. Prior to joining Quiet, she was an investor on Redpoint Venture’s early stage enterprise team. Astasia joins the show to talk about Early Stage Venture Capital. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information The post Early Stage Venture Capital with Astasia...

Lee Edwards is a Partner at Root Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups that are focused on solving hard engineering problems. Lee is an investor in Privacy Dynamics, a company that offers data anonymisation as a service. You can listen to our interview with the CTO of Privacy Dynamics, John Craft The post Seeding Bold Engineers with Lee Edwards appeared first on Sof...

Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code. Andy Johns is our guest in this episode. Andy previously worked on growth at Facebook, Twitter, and Quora as an early employee. He’s also an investor in The post Mental Health in Tech with Andy Johns appeared first on Software Enginee...

Gabe Greenberg Michelle Bakels Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code. During the pandemic, the strains of being an engineer became even more acute, as we were secluded in our homes, in some cases The post Developer Health with Gabe Greenberg and Michelle Bakels appeared fi...

Vantage is a system for optimizing cloud costs. It provides tools and interfaces for developers to analyze how they are spending on AWS resources, and has recently expanded into GCP as well. Vantage users gain an easy interface into their costs that would otherwise be hard to analyze via the raw AWS console. Ben Schaechter The post Vantage Engineering with Ben Schaechter appeared first on Software...

Substack is a platform for subscription based content, covering newsletters, podcasts, and soon video. The design and speed of the platform are notable–with a minimalistic format that simply gets creators paid for its work, Substack has gained massive popularity. Chris Best is the CEO of Substack and joins the show to talk about the platform, The post Substack with Chris Best appeared first on Sof...

National Instruments develops software and hardware for engineering in a wide variety of domains, from aerospace to government technology to application testing. The interface between hardware and software presents a variety of difficult engineering challenges. Luke Schreier is a Senior Vice President at National Instruments and joins the show to discuss the engineering and management The post Nat...

Increasingly, technology groups need to be strategic about the cloud services they adopt to ensure their vendor’s pricing is both fair and measured exactly right for the application’s unique access pattern.  Definitely answering questions like these can take a significant amount of time and energy from your most valuable engineers.  Taloflow is a company trying The post Taloflow with LV Jadavji ap...

Online poker was deemed illegal in the United States ten years ago. Since then, poker has decreased in popularity, then found new invigoration thanks to live streaming and a large volume of bored gamers looking for something to do during the pandemic. Poker is a strategy game that can be played even without the financial The post Clubs Poker with Taylor Crane appeared first on Software Engineering...

Pinterest is a visual discovery engine people use to find ideas in home, food, style, beauty, and more. The service grew quickly after its founding in 2010 and the company has grown to be a global team of thousands of professionals spanning time zones and continents. To deliver the smooth experience Pinterest users have come The post Pinterest Engineering appeared first on Software Engineering Dai...

TechLit Africa is a non-profit on a mission to lessen African poverty by leveraging the internet.  Rural Africans lack digital skills and computers to gain from the digital economy, even though developed countries have an abundance of used computers.  That’s where TechLit Africa comes in.  They accept used computers, refurbish them with custom classroom code, The post TechLit Africa with Nelly Che...

As the internet has grown, increasingly, we are consumers of services provided by corporations rather than owners and operators of our own systems.  To many, this trend towards centralization is antithetical to the spirit of a free and open internet. Urbit is a new operating system and peer-to-peer network.  There are several layers of novel The post Urbit with Galen Wolfe-Pauly appeared first on...

Robotic process automation or RPA refers to software robots constructed to automate some business process.  Perhaps the most ubiquitous example is adding filters to your email inbox.  I’ve worked with a lot of salespeople that configure complex email follow-up campaigns when inbound emails come in, but even that’s a fairly basic example compared to what’s The post UiPath with Boris Krumrey appeare...

Climate modeling is increasingly important as supply chains, emergency management, and dozens of other efforts need to make predictions about future conditions and how they will impact business.  Analyzing climate data requires geospatial systems, and those systems need a full-stack geospatial technology solution. Gopal Erinjippurath serves as CTO and Head of Product at Sust Global, The post The S...

Internships can be an incredibly valuable resource to new professionals and are often the first professional work experience for many participants.  It’s often the case that internship programs are suboptimal.  Employers don’t always provide a clear path to success for the intern.  Interns in turn don’t always have a resource to reach out for help The post Internship Management Solutions wit...

With a few impressive exceptions, software is rarely written by one person.  It takes a team and as that team outgrows a single shared office, coordination and communication become emergent problems.  There are lots of lessons to be learned from companies that have already found approaches that scale. In this episode, I interview Tramale Turner, The post Building Engineering Teams with Tramale Tur...

To many people’s surprise tech sales is not much of an art. It’s actually a regimented science where reps have clear step-by-step processes to bring in new business. Each stage takes the customer closer to the end of the deal and consists of learning more about the customer’s needs.  A CRM is a database reps The post AI in Sales with Ohad Parush appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .