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Free Code Camp is an open source community dedicated to teaching people how to code while also helping non-profits Quincy Larson is the Founder of Free Code Camp, and previously was the director of several schools in the U.S. and China. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Oce...

Steve Kinney is the co-director of academics at Turing School of Software and Design. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. Use promo code SEDAILY for $10 in free credit.

Haseeb Qureshi is an former high-stakes poker player who pivoted to web development. He is an instructor at App Academy in San Francisco. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. Use promo code SEDAILY for $10 in free credit.

Dwarf Fortress is a construction and management simulation computer game set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, and attempts to construct a successful underground fortress. Tarn Adams works on Dwarf Fortress with his brother Zach. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to g...

Kudu is an open-source storage engine for the Hadoop ecosystem. It balances the advantages of both HDFS and HBase, by allowing for performant random-access queries while also providing fast writes and scans for analytics. Todd Lipcon is a software engineer at Cloudera who leads the development of Kudu. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdail...

Our conversation covered the world of software podcasting, including a discussion of one of our favorite software podcasts, JavaScript Jabber, a weekly podcast about all things JavaScript, including Node.js, front-end technologies, careers, and teams. Charles Wood is the host of JavaScript Jabber, Ruby Rogues and several other software podcasts. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider...

Ethereum is a decentralized platform for applications that are guaranteed to run exactly as expected via smart contracts. Gavin Wood is a Co-founder and the Director of Development at Ethereum. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. Use promo code SEDAILY for $10 in free credit. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get...

Léonie Watson is an accessibility engineer and a director at the British Computer Association of the Blind. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. Use promo code SEDAILY for $10 in free credit. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired.

Derek Sivers is a programmer, musician, and writer. He has created several companies and products, including CD Baby, which became the largest seller of independent music online. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. Use promo code SEDAILY for $10 in free credit. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus up...

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.

Crocodile Browser with Anesi and Osine Ikhianosime

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.