IT Career Energizer

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show is an internationally recognized author, speaker, blogger and sometimes teacher and consultant.  He has been working with the web since late 1993 and is recognized as an expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS and web standards.   He is currently a technical lead at non-profit organization Rebecca's Gift and is also co-founder of An Event Apart, a web design confere...

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show is currently a VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. He is a recognized industry expert on a variety of topics including digital transformation, social collaboration and online business models.  And in 2015 he was identified as one of the top 20 people most mentioned by IT leaders.   EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Dion Hinchliffe is Phil's guest on today's s...

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft.  He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software and web services. Before becoming a Principal Program Manager he was a professional mobile developer and has been crafting apps since 2011. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: James M...

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show is a functional programming advocate.  He has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years in a variety of roles including software support, development lead, project management and systems analysis. He is the co-founder of the Knoxville Functional Programmers group and is currently a senior consultant for Result Stack. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on t...

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show has been creating software for several decades.  He has trained developers around the world, led eXtreme programming projects for the US government and eBay, and introduced Lean and Agile concepts at Google, Guidewire Software and Apple. In 2017 he refocused on technical training and coaching, both in person and online. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today...

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show has worked in IT for over twenty years after failing to become a writer and divides his career into three parts.  The first third was spent building applications for the fast-paced online gambling industry. The second third was spent maturing that business, in the area of third line support and operations.  And the remainder of his time was spent working on cont...

GUEST BIO: Fran Buontempo is editor of the ACCU's (Association of C and C++ Users) Overload magazine.  Fran has been programming in C++ for over a decade and also knows C# and Python.  Fran has also written a book about how to program your way out of a paper bag. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Fran Buontempo. She is a C and C++ expert who is the editor of the ACCU's (Associat...

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show is the founder of Cloudskills.io, a technical advisor, author and a mentor for people ramping up on cloud technologies.  He has worked for tech giants Microsoft and Amazon and has founded two consulting companies of his own. And as well as having published four books and creating multiple online courses, he is often seen speaking from the stage at events around...

GUEST BIO: Michal Spacek is a developer who builds breaks and tests web applications.  He has a specific interest in web application security and likes to pass on his knowledge and experience to others, having spoken at more than 100 conferences and events to date. Michal says that he is on a mission to teach web developers why and how to build secure and fast web applications. EPISODE DESCRIPTION...

GUEST BIO: Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, teacher and mentor, and hardware and robot tinkerer.  She has a passion for technology and has had ever since she wrote her first computer programs in elementary school. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Sarah Withee. She has been programming all of her life, which has turned her into an accomplished polygl...

GUEST BIO: Dave is a Software Developer who has been building web applications since using HTML tables for layout started to go out of style.  A background in classical design and computer systems technology has enabled him to roam between the worlds of design and development.  Dave hails from Ottawa, Canada where he works remotely for Test Double. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show...

GUEST BIO: Charity is CEO at honeycomb.io.  She is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse and Linden Lab always seeming to end up responsible for databases.  Charity is also the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering and a regular conference speaker. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Charity Majors. She started her career working as a systems...

GUEST BIO: Jessica Ivins is a user experience (UX) designer and faculty member at Center Centre , the UX design school in Chattanooga, TN, where she prepares students to be industry-ready, junior UX designers. Jessica dedicates much of her time to the UX community. She founded the Chattanooga UX Design Meetup. She publishes UX articles on her blog and on Medium . She also speaks internationally at...

GUEST BIO: Ryan Levick is a developer advocate working in Berlin.  Ryan joined Microsoft as a result of its acquisition of Wunderlist in 2015.  Ryan has spent his career building apps on both the server and client side and exploring a wide range of open source technologies with a particular focus on functional programming.   Ryan has a passion for the Rust programming language, which he often writ...

Melissa Perri is a Product Management coach and consultant, and founder & CEO of Produx Labs.   She has trained organizations and teams on Product Management best practices and has spoken at more than 30 conferences in 14 different countries.  Melissa is also author of "Escaping the Build Trap" as well as launching her own school, Product Institute, in 2016. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on to...

GUEST BIO: Maaret Pyhajarvi is an Engineering Manager for F-Secure leading a team while continuing with hands-on testing and programming.   In 2016, Maaret was awarded Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person and she has spoken at events in 25 countries delivering close to 400 sessions.  Maaret is also author of two books, Mob Programming Guidebook and Exploratory Testing.   EPISODE DESC...

GUEST BIO: Beau is a technology Strategy Consultant and has been a professional polyglot programmer since 1998.  He hosts Astrocasts and is co-host of That Podcast.  Beau is an active open-sourcer, creator of Sculpin and helped to create Stack PHP.  He is also a serving Core Committee member for the PHP Framework Interoperability Group.   EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Beau S...

GUEST BIO: Nader  Dabit is a Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services.  He specializes in helping teams to build and implement cross-platform applications more efficiently.  Nader is also author of the book "React Native in Action" and host of the "React Native Radio" podcast.   EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Nader Dabit. He is currently a Developer Advocate at AWS. Nader s...

GUEST BIO: Rhia is a software engineer for a data-driven tech company where she creates backend software applications using C#, .NET, Python, AWS and a variety of other tech.   Rhia is an active member of Kansas City Women in Technology and she is passionate about encouraging underrepresented and underexposed communities to take advantage of the opportunities available in tech.   EPISODE DESCRIPTI...

GUEST BIO: Kyle Shevlin is a front end web developer and software engineer who specializes in JavaScript and React.   Kyle is also host of the Second Career Devs podcast where he talks to guests who became software engineers after a previous career.   EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Kyle Shevlin. Kyle specializes in working with JavaScript, React, Redux, GraphQL, Noda, Webpack...

GUEST BIO: Sarah is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft where she helps organizations with their Data Centre Transformations.  In recent years Sarah has started to focus and specialize in all things Cloud, especially Microsoft Azure.   Sarah is also a STEM Ambassador and likes to share her story in the hope that it will inspire the next generation to start a STEM career.   EPISODE DESCRIPTION...

GUEST BIO: My guest on today's show is Matt Harrison.  Matt is an instructor on Python and Data Science material.  He has been co-chair of the Utah Python user group and has presented at conferences including PyCon, OSCon and OpenWest.  Matt is also an author of a number of books about Python, including the Treading on Python Series.   EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Matt Harrison is Phil's guest on today's...

GUEST BIO: Guillermo Rauch is the CEO and co-founder of ZEIT, a San Francisco company whose mission is to make cloud computing as easy and accessible as mobile computing. Prior to ZEIT, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup.  He's also the creator of several popular Node. JS libraries. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Guillermo Rauch.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: (0...

GUEST BIO: Richard Warburton is the co-founder of Opsian.com and maintainer of the Artio FIX Engine.  He's worked as a developer in different areas including Developer Tools, HFT and Network Protocols. Richard wrote the book "Java 8 Lambdas" for O'Reilly and is also an experienced conference speaker, having spoken at dozens of events and sat on conference committees for some of the biggest confere...

GUEST BIO: Ruth Yakubu is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and founder of PoshBeauty.com.  Ruth specializes in Java, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Data Platform and Cloud and has worked for companies such as Accenture, Warner Brothers and TicketMaster in software architectural design and programming.   Ruth has also been a speaker at several conferences including Devox...