B-Grade Media

Michael is a Principal Software Engineer at BambooHR and the founder of Continuous Confidence Consulting. He consults with technology companies to improve their processes and culture by utilizing the principles of Continuous Confidence in their daily work. Michael’s philosophies help engineers build and deliver software smoothly and repeatably by combining Continuous Confidence and modern CI...

Welcome to season two of Talking Culture! My guest for episode one is Daniel Leon, who spent over a decade in the airline industry and is now fully immersed in South Florida’s IT Solutions sector. Daniel firmly believes organizational success hinges on fostering inclusive environments and advocates for diverse teams’ transformative power.

Tobias is an experienced consultant, coach, and mentor for engineering leadership and developer experience with over a decade of experience. He was the driving force behind the Developer Experience Team at BRYTER, leading the successful transition to continuous deployments. He is dedicated to helping software companies build high-performing engineering organizations and teams, leveraging his exper...

Michael Chaoui is the Founder and CEO of Atlas One Security, an information security consultancy specializing in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), with deep knowledge of building and sustaining customer trust programs. As Atlas One’s Principal Consultant, Michael’s experience has spanned across Big 4, FAANG, large multinational corporations, smaller public tech companies, and start-ups that...

My guest is Detelina “Lina” Vasileva. Lina graduated with a degree in Psychology in 2008 and has worked in IT since 2006. To this day, Lina is on a mission to help people strike the right balance of technology, processes, and people to solve business problems. Her mission to create work conditions which allow people […]

Joao is a site reliability engineer from Portugal who has worked in many different environments. Joao’s career began in a Portuguese microelectronics company as a test engineer. He discovered that he was getting more of a kick from automating instruments than from the actual results, and decided to pursue a career in software development. Currently, […]

In more than twenty years of leading software engineering and IT teams running the gamut from startup to Fortune 500, Steve Dwire discovered that many technology leaders struggle as they advance. When they become managers, they think they’re getting a promotion and are surprised to learn they are switching careers. They expect a change of […]

In episode 3 of season 8, Meg and Wade take a look back at all that happened in 2021. From personal changes like their family being separated for the first time in their history, the Covid pandemic, January 6th, and other events that shaped the year that was, and was not. If you are experiencing […]

Episode two of season eight is all about gender bias in the workplace. Wade and Meg share their experiences with gender bias in the jobs and workplaces they have worked in as well as observations about why these biases exist in the first place. — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/b-grade-media/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho...

Welcome to season 8! Sorry, it took so long to get here, but we hope the episode is worth the wait.  In the first episode of season 8, Wade and Meg discuss their relationship; the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. So sit back and enjoy the musings of Wade, the dad, and Meg, […]