Frontier Podcast by Gun.io

Ledge sits down with Eric Rodwell, VP Worldwide Solutions Engineering at Conga, to discuss the importance of self awareness when starting the journey of professional development. He shares helpful tips on putting yourself in the shoes of your customer to keep quality high and deliver an exceptional experience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Glenn Thimmes joins Ledge on the podcast to discuss his technical experience. From working for Microsoft becoming an expert in .NET, to becoming CTO for Centeva developing agile solutions for the federal government. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Eric Hunter, Managing Director for futurist consultancy firm Spherical Models, LLC and CTO of Bradford & Barthel, LLP, about how having a stroke sparked his interest in how we process information and the intersectionality between future technology and human behavior. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Kritzman, CEO at SkillNet, joins the podcast to discuss how Skillnet is helping companies to do better with their HR by upskilling and reskilling to retain talent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ledge sat down with James Graham, Founder of Community Phone, to talk about how Community Phone is reinventing the way we look at telephone companies by helping millions reduce the cost of their monthly phone plan, safeguarding their online privacy, and providing competent help from individuals in their local community immediately. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jason Hintersteiner is the CTO at Imperial Network Solutions and is an expert on all things WiFi and joins the podcast talk about this technology that we use everyday and how to think about security holistically when it comes to Wifi networks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Andrew Plato, CEO, President, and Founder of Initian to chat about accidentally discovering the SQL attack, and through that experience gaining an appreciation for security which led him start his own security firm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Ledge sits down with Michael Weissman, 10-time entrepreneur, career high tech executive, and consultant to such tech allstars as Apple, Amazon, Adobe, and more. Michael’s current adventure is Synchy, an advanced adtech product that delivers product advertising right alongside the product purchase experience, following on the success of Amazon’s ad network, and building a next gener...

Technology co-founder Matthew McDonald is no stranger to rapid change. He joined a Startup Weekend event, met some contractors there with an idea to change construction equipment rental industry, and built a prototype -- booking their first validation client the same weekend. When a friend suggested they apply to Ycom, Matthew admits he blew off the idea at first. After deciding to go through with...

Electrical engineer, Fabrizio Filippini, has always had a strong passion for web, IoT, and sports. That got him into wearables, which led him to join as a co-founder of FitBark.  Wearables for animals? No one thinks innately about health monitors for pets like they do for humans, with our Apples Watches, FitBits, and more. It turns out this is an important area of development because pets don...

Dan Tienes, CTO of Corporate Cost Control, has unique perspectives on cybersecurity, particularly having taken a personal interest in the well-known Equifax breach, having spent time working at the company for 9 years after an acquisition.  With a deep insight into the Equifax corporate culture, born of his time at the company, Dan has thoughtful perspectives on both failures of technology an...

Tim Anderson is the Vice President of Technical Operations of Kasasa, a community financial institution fintech company. Kasasa offers a suite of checking account products for which Tim runs the implementation and support team -- making sure customer data is onboarded properly. When you serve a conservative customer base, the day to day isn’t necessarily a cutting edge revolution in technology --...

Video connections are critical in a remote business environment. If we’re going to embrace remote work, we need video calls. That’s what Ledge talks about with Bobby Beckman, CTO of Lifesize, a formidable competitor in the video calling sector. The major challenges of video call handling cover a range of technical challenges. Furthermore, the user experience challenges like making videos easier to...

Three-time CTO, Rich Brown, put in his Fortune 500 time across the enterprise sector at Bank of American, SAP, and others.  Ledge and Rich discuss the trade-offs of native and hybrid, cloud and local, and the true experience end users are looking for. We talk about the evolution of Microsoft and the company’s re-evolution in the developer ethos with the acceptance of .Net Core. Hosted on Acas...

Damian Schenkelman is the Director of Engineering at Auth0. Ledge reached him at his remote office in Brazil.  Auth0 provides SDKs and APIs for identification and login. Auth0 is the Stripe of logging into websites and apps. As an engineering director, Damian’s number one objective is scaling engineering teams: making sure the right people are in the right seats with the right training and su...

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Nav Bhachech, who boasts an impressive CV having worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, to talk about his work with various SV-area startups. Nav goes into detail about his work with developing Microsoft Office apps, utilizing add-on and API functionality in standard Office applications. He discusses the issues with developing systems that aren’t considered ‘coo...

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Nav Bhachech, who boasts an impressive CV having worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, to talk about his work with various SV-area startups. Nav goes into detail about his work with developing Microsoft Office apps, utilizing add-on and API functionality in standard Office applications. He discusses the issues with developing systems that aren’t considered ‘coo...

Do we take software demos for granted? Should we be investing more energy and attention into demo UX? CEO and founder of Omedym, Greg Dickinson, believes so. Omedym’s solution helps companies craft interactive software demo experiences, intelligently delivering answers to would-be buyers’ questions in real time. As Internet culture wreaks havoc on our attentions spans, would-be customers ashew the...

ason Zubrick has enjoyed a trailblazing career in retail finance, helping small-scale outlets revolutionize their technology approach, as the CTO at defi SOLUTIONS. defi’s loan origination solution provides banks, credit unions, and auto lenders with a flexible technology platform that enables modern lending programs. Innovation and accuracy underpin performance in this  industry and Jason em...

Mobile app security expert Domingo Guerra is an authority in a field that’s growing at a frenetic pace. As the founder of Appthority, Domingo witnessed first-hand how businesses require increasing levels of assistance to properly secure critical business data and protect consumers on mobile platforms. When Appthority was acquired by Symantec, Domingo continued his work at the cutting-edge of mobil...

Leon Fayer began his prolific software engineering career some 25 years ago in government contracting, and has since shifted gears to focus on the private sector. His multi-sector gives him unique insight into the ways technology has come to define every discipline of commerce. After years of founding and running successful start-ups, Leon now works in consultancy with high-traffic sites, such as...

Entrepreneur Michael Dash had it all -- a multi-million dollar business, cars, real estate, you name it. He also had a compulsive and addictive personality that led him to gambling, drugs, and a destructive path that brought it all down. In his new book, “Chasing the High,” Michael lays out his path to redemption in a raw, honest, framework that he’s turned into a program called “F.A.T.E” -- From...

AI pioneer, Sandra Carrico, joins Ledge in this fascinating episode where she recounts the early days of AI, the early 80s AI winter, and the dawn of computational linguistics. Now the VP of Engineering and Chief Data Scientist at Glynt.ai, she works daily with the company’s ML systems to refine the patented algorithms she invented to extract data from documents such as utility bills, insurance cl...

Caleb Ontiveros, who left the University of Notre Dame’s PhD program in philosophy to pursue a career in tech, is often asked by people studying philosophy how he transitioned to software engineering and programming. Caleb created the Facebook group, Philosophers in Software Engineering to help others like him. The group’s members collect and share advice for philosophers interested in learning ho...

Software may be written on machines, but it's written by and for human beings. That’s according to Ledge’s guest, April Wensel founder, of Compassionate Coding, a company offering advice and workshops to engineering teams on how to bring a more human touch to the workplace. “We weren’t caring enough about human beings in the engineering process,” notes April, who used her background in software en...