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Guillermo (Memo) Sanchez joins this episode to talk about being a tech founder. After working at FactSet for over 5 years, he co-founded Reonomy. Then, he was a manager at Blink Health and VP of Engineering at DelShah Capital before co-founding another startup, Pragmic that was recently acquired by dev01. Memo discusses getting into tech, his first startup and the lessons he learned, navigating co...

Harry Wolff, Director of Engineering at MongoDB , discusses his experiences as a manager and director, his career as a frontend developer, frontend engineering at MongoDB, how he shares knowledge and content through his YouTube channel, and much more. You can check out Harry Wolff's content on his website here and his YouTube channel here -- make sure to subscribe to his channel!  You can sup...

Matthew Gerstman joins me in this episode to discuss the history of the web. Matthew has worked in frontend development at Dropbox, and now he is a Staff Engineer at Bluecore. Inspired by a post he recently made , we discuss a variety of topics relating to the evolution of the web-- including HTML, document object models, PHP,  javascript, web 2.0, CSS, ECMA scripts,  cross-browser bugs...

Michael Hurwitz (Twitter: @dngrmike), a Principal Software Engineer on Bluecore's Data Science Infrastructure team, joins me on this podcast to talk about all things caching, including his open-source caching library LazyLRU (find it on GitHub here and read a blog about it here ). The first part of the episode is focused on the basics of caching, what it is used for, and caching policies and patte...

Computational astrophysicist Bronson Messer joins me on this episode to talk about computers and science. Bronson got his PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Tennessee, and he now works at Oak Ridge National Library as the Director of Science of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. We discuss how he uses the worlds most powerful supercomputers to simulate supernovas blowing up, what...

In this episode, Bruno Aziza , Head of Data & Analytics at Google Cloud, discusses everything Data & Analytics. From startups to big companies, Bruno has learned a lot along the way and has seen shifts in the field. He discusses those learnings, along with what is coming next. Listen to hear about the importance of his role with the community and going beyond the bytes, the state of Data &...

Brent Lassi and special guest Mike Hurwitz join me again for part II on security. Brent Lassi co-founded one of the first AppSec companies called Apex, and he now works as the CISO at Bluecore. Mike Hurwitz is a Principal Engineer at Bluecore and has previously worked at Tumblr and Shutterstock. In this episode we talk more about the evolution of security in the last few years-- both about the adv...

Brent Lassi and special guest Mike Hurwitz join me on this episode to talk about security. Brent Lassi co-founded one of the first AppSec companies called Apex, and he now works as the CISO at Bluecore. Brent explains his day-to-day and his journey in his field. He also teaches me about infosec, differences in privacy and security, and what security engineers must do to ensure that software is saf...

Jason Reid, Director of Data Science and Engineering at Netflix, joins me on this episode to discuss Netflix's culture. We discuss the topics in the book No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention and his personal experiences at Netflix. We have a great talk about the Keeper Test, career growth, titles, paying top of personal market, mentorship, diversity, and much more! The opinions i...

Bahar Shah joins me in this episode to talk about the very beginning stages of a startup. She graduated from MIT, worked at Microsoft as a software engineer, then went to Bluecore where she became a director of engineering, and now she is in the very early stages of a startup she co-founded called Tell. We discuss how Tell began, creating culture, setting values early on, funding, and much more!&n...

David Dyar joined IBM in their heyday and moved on to help other startups grow as a Senior Vice President (currently at DailyPay). In this episode, he shares his experiences along the way and the lessons he has learned from them. David discusses his various roles, diversity in the workplace, what kinds of people he looks for within organizations, challenges coming into companies, maintaining workp...

On this episode we talk with Evan Jones (www.evanjones.ca or Twitter: @epcjones), who works at Datadog and previously worked at Bluecore, Twitter, Mitro (his own startup), Infix, Google, and received a PhD from MIT. We discuss server reliability, learning from a cloud provider outage, the difficulties of scaling systems, how to address failures due to overloading your systems, and much more! 

Kelsey Hightower (Twitter: @kelseyhightower), Principal Engineer at Google Cloud and a well-known open-source contributor, joins me on this episode to discuss a variety of topics concerning cloud development, tools, and experiences. Kelsey shares some of his personal experiences about learning and growth, and we discuss some challenges we face today like identity and observability, and how to navi...

In the second part of the database discussion with Mike Hurwitz (Twitter: @dngrmike), we discuss distributed databases. Mike talks about what guarantees one can make about distributed data stores. Like, what guarantees can you make with updates? and what happens when a 6-year-old runs into a datacenter with a squirt gun and sets your machine into a pile of sparks and flames? do we really get a cho...

Michael Hurwitz (Twitter: @dngrmike) is a Principal Software Engineer on Bluecore's Data Science Infrastructure team and is an expert when it comes to databases. He previously worked at Blink Health, Shutterstock, and Tumblr. In this entertaining episode, Mike covers the basics of different types of databases. We discuss B+ trees, the differences in columnar- and row-stores, caching, indexes, and...

John Hymel is a Ph. D. student at Georgia Tech. In this episode, he answers the question "what is computational chemistry?" and dives into basic concepts and applications. We also discuss the types of projects and workflows John uses. John is passionate about what he does, and it is always fun to talk to him. 

In this episode, I learn about Jason Deng (Twitter: @jasondengster & more https://linktr.ee/jasondeng ), a tech lead at Bluecore, and his experience as a front-end dev. He explains different aspects of his job and the tools he uses. We talk about tech debt, current front-end tech usage, and the future of front-end. Jason explains Typescript, React, Redux, and GraphQL. We also discuss cultural...