About Dai Wakabayashi Dai Wakabayashi is a tech reporter for the New York Times based in San Francisco whose primary focus is all things Google. Prior to joining the Times, Dai covered Apple and Japanese tech companies (e.g., Sony, Nintendo, Panasonic, and Sharp) for The Wall Street Journal for almost eight years. He also worked for Reuters for nine years, focusing on Microsoft during his time there. Links Referenced: Dai’s recent AWS article NY Times hires Wakabayashi to cover tech Twitter: @da...
Jan 22, 2020•35 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast About Leon Adato Leon Adato is a Head Geek and technical evangelist at SolarWinds®, and is a Cisco® Certified Network Associate (CCNA), MCSE and SolarWinds Certified Professional. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.Before he was a SolarWinds Head Geek, Adato was a SolarWinds user for over a decade. His expertise in IT began in 1989 and has led him through roles in classroom training, desktop support, server support, and software distribution.Funny...
Jan 15, 2020•34 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast About Adam Jacob Adam Jacob is a co-founder of Chef Software and the creator of Chef. He has over a decade of experience designing, building, and managing large production systems. Adam is Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of The System Initiative. Before Chef Software, he founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy where he built production cloud infrastructures. Adam has been responsible for large production systems, internal corporate automation, and Sarbanes-Oxley c...
Jan 08, 2020•48 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast Links Referenced Oxide Website On The Metal Podcast
Jan 01, 2020•40 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast About Rachel Stephens Rachel Stephens is an industry analyst with RedMonk, the developer focused industry analyst firm, covering a broad range of developer and infrastructure products. At RedMonk she has worked with vendors such as Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft. Rachel arrived at RedMonk with a background in finance, including an MBA with a Business Intelligence specialization, along with broad exposure to a variety of enterprise database systems. Her analysis and work leverages a variety of...
Dec 25, 2019•41 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast About Pete Cheslock Pete is Professionally Unaffiliated, but spends his time consulting and advising companies such as CHAOSSEARCH and CloudTruth. Previous he was the VP of Product for CHAOSSEARCH, and before that he has been running large scale infrastructure on Amazon Web Services since 2009 Links Referenced re:Invent Expo Nature Walk Twitter Thread Twitter Username: @petecheslock LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petecheslock/ Personal site: https://pete.wtf Company site: https://pete...
Dec 18, 2019•56 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast About Chloe Condon Chloe is a Bay Area based Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. Previously, she worked at Sentry.io where she was an advocate for their open-source & hosted error monitoring tool, and created the award winning "Sentry Scouts" program. Her unique demos and projects with Microsoft Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart "astrology", and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Franc...
Dec 11, 2019•33 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast About Cody Ogden A product designer at heart, Cody has been crafting experiences for the web since he was ten years old. He’s best known for his open source website and its cheeky Twitter account, Killed by Google, which Fast Company called “an informational fever dream,” and one netizen praised as “an ignorant meme.” His project tracks news of Google’s product decisions until they are laid to rest in the Google Graveyard. Cody works remotely as a software engineer at Cannabiz Media. He's a fan ...
Dec 04, 2019•35 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast About Russ Savage Russ Savage is a Product Manager at InfluxData where he focuses on enabling DevOps for teams using InfluxDB and the TICK Stack. He has a background in computer engineering and has been focused on various aspects of enterprise data for the past 10 years. Russ has previously worked at Cask Data, Elastic, Box, and Amazon. When Russ is not working at InfluxData, he can be seen speeding down the slopes on a pair of skis. Links Referenced russ@influxdata.com https://www.linkedin.com/...
Nov 27, 2019•32 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast About Tiffany Farriss Tiffany is the CEO and co-owner of Palantir.net. Along with George DeMet, she provides the vision and values for Palantir. She has over 20 years of internet consulting and development experience and extensive experience providing information architecture and usability consulting for a wide variety of clients. Tiffany has a BA in Mathematics from Northwestern University, where she focused on mathematical modeling and human-computer interaction, and was a member of the Drupal...
Nov 20, 2019•42 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast About Sasha Rosenbaum Sasha is a Program Manager on the Azure DevOps engineering team, focused on improving the alignment of the product with open-source software. Sasha is a co-organizer of the DevOps Days Chicago and the DeliveryConf conferences, and recently published a book on Serverless computing in Azure with .NET. Links Referenced: Sponsor: Snark.cloud/AWSsolutions Twitter Username: @DivineOps LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-rosenbaum/ Personal site: https://www.sasharosen...
Nov 13, 2019•32 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast About Tanya Janca Tanya Janca is the co-founder and CEO of Security Sidekick. Her obsession with securing software runs deep, from starting her company, to running her own OWASP chapter for 4 years and founding the OWASP DevSlop open-source and education project. With her countless blog articles, workshops and talks, her focus is clear. Tanya is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion, co-founding the international women’s organization WoSEC, starting the online #MentoringMonday initiative,...
Nov 06, 2019•34 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast About Josh Doody Josh is a salary negotiation coach who helps experienced software developers negotiate job offers from big tech companies like Google and Amazon. Links Referenced: Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshdoody LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshdoody/ Personal site: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/ My Coaching Site:: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/coach/ A detailed article on how to answer the salary expectations question: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/t...
Oct 30, 2019•37 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast About Paul Dix Paul Dix is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in c...
Oct 23, 2019•33 min•Ep 83•Transcript available on Metacast About Paul Chin Jr. Paul Chin Jr. is a curious human who likes to work with new technologies. His day job is at Cloudreach as a cloud solutions architect, working with enterprises to modernize their applications in the cloud. On the side, he’s a prophet for Nicolas Cage and is called to spread his message. Links Referenced Twitter Username: @paulchinjr LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulchinjr/ Personal site: https://www.paulchinjr.com Company site: www.cloudreach.com Talk hashtag: #p...
Oct 16, 2019•30 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast About Paul Johnston Paul Johnston is an interim CTO, CTO and strategist who has particular interests in serverless, cloud, startups and climate change. Formerly, Paul served as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS for Serverless and CTO of multiple startups, including one of the world’s first serverless startups. Paul’s also a keynote speaker, tweets a lot at @PaulDJohnston, and blogs a lot on Medium. Right now, he may also be working in stealth mode on something (it’s probably serverless)… Links ...
Oct 09, 2019•32 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast About Nicole Forsgren, PhD Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google . She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps , and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engi...
Oct 02, 2019•39 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast About Andrew Peterson Andrew Peterson is the CEO and Cofounder of Signal Sciences. Under Peterson’s leadership, Signal Sciences has become the #1 and most trusted provider of next-gen WAF and RASP technology and one of the fastest growing cybersecurity companies in the world. As CEO, Peterson is responsible for overseeing all business functions, go-to-market activities, and attainment of strategic, operational and financial goals. Prior to founding Signal Sciences, Peterson has been building lea...
Sep 25, 2019•35 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast About AJ Stuyvenberg Aaron Stuyvenberg (AJ) is a Senior Engineer at Serverless Inc, focused on creating the best possible Serverless developer experience. Before Serverless, he was a Lead Engineer at SportsEngine (an NBCUniversal company). When he's not busy writing software, you can find him skydiving, BASE jumping, biking, or fishing. Links Referenced: Twitter: @astuyve Serverless.com Serverless Blog...
Sep 18, 2019•40 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast About Josh Stella Josh Stella is co-founder and CTO of Fugue, the company delivering autonomous cloud infrastructure security and compliance. Previously, Josh was a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he supported customers in the area of national security. Prior to Fugue, Josh served as CTO for a technology startup and, for 25 years, in numerous other IT leadership and technical roles. Links Referenced Twitter: @joshstella LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-stella-949a...
Sep 11, 2019•35 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast About Matt Broberg Matt loves working with technology communities to develop products and content that invite delightful engagement. He’s a serial podcaster, best known for the Geek Whisperers podcast , is on the board of the Influence Marketing Council , co-maintains the DevRel Collective , and often shares his thoughts on Twitter and GitHub @mbbroberg . He’s also a fan of tattoos and cats, though remains unsure of Schrödinger’s. Links Referenced: Twitter Username: Mbbroberg LinkedIn URL: https...
Sep 04, 2019•38 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast About Nicole Forsgren, PhD Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google . She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps , and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engi...
Aug 28, 2019•39 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast About Richard Campbell Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox ( ww...
Aug 21, 2019•32 min•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast About Mike Warren Mike Warren is cofounder and CTO of Descartes Labs. Mike’s past work spans a wide range of disciplines, with the recurring theme of developing and applying advanced software and computing technology to understand the physical and virtual world. He was a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years, and also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Sandpiper Networks/Digital Island. His work has been recognized on multiple occasions, including the Gordon Bell prize fo...
Aug 14, 2019•31 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast About Chris Vickery Chris Vickery is Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard. His research has protected over two and a half billion private consumer and account records which would have otherwise remained at risk of malicious exploitation. He has been cited as a cyber security expert by The New York Times, Forbes, Reuters, BBC, LA Times, Washington Post, and many other publications. Some examples of his high profile data discoveries involve entities such as Verizon, Facebook, Viacom, Donald ...
Aug 07, 2019•34 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast About Tara Walker Tara is a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure IoT product group primarily focused making services for IoT and Intelligent Edge great on Azure. While she now primarily focuses on IoT, Tara has additional expertise and interests in Serverless, Artificial Intelligence (AI) cloud services, and Mobile Development solutions. Over her 20-year career, she has been employed by Amazon Web Services, Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner, Georgia Pacific, and various other Fortune 500 compa...
Jul 31, 2019•23 min•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast About Ken Collins Ken Collins is a Staff Engineer at Custom Ink focusing on DevOps and eCommerce architecture with an emphasis on emerging opportunities. Custom Ink is approaching its 20th year in business and is entering its second phase in Cloud adoption where Ken helps an increasing growing engineering team succeed using AWS-first well-architected patterns. Ken lives near Norfolk, VA and organizes the area’s Ruby User Group. Links Referenced: Twitter: @metaskills Custom Ink...
Jul 24, 2019•30 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Galen Hunt founded and leads the Microsoft team responsible for Azure Sphere. The mission of his team is to ensure that every IoT device on the planet is secure and trustworthy. Previously, Dr. Hunt lead the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft Research and pioneered technologies ranging from confidential cloud computing to light-weight container virtualization, type-safe operating systems, and video streaming. Dr. Hunt was a member of Microsoft's founding cloud computing team and helped bui...
Jul 17, 2019•28 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast About Christina Warren Christina Warren is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where she helps shape the overall strategy for Developer Relations in Azure. As an advocate, she hosts shows on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video channel for developer content, speaks and creates content at events, conducts on-camera technical interviews within the developer community, and liaisons with product teams across the company. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christina spent a decade in digital media as an editor, s...
Jul 10, 2019•45 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast About Mitchell Hashimoto Mitchell Hashimoto is Founder and CTO of HashiCorp. He is the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault and Nomad - a set of open source tools that each individually are downloaded and used millions of times per year. At one point Mitchell was in the top 5 most active users on GitHub. At HashiCorp, Mitchell is helping define a remote-first culture with over 500 employees spanning dozens of countries. He loves open source, automation, and working from hom...
Jul 03, 2019•40 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast 
