Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
S7 E5: Vicki Duben, Viewst
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vicki Duben's background is actually in physics and applied mathematics. Prior to graduation, sh...
S7 HarperDB Update - Jaxon Repp, Head of Product
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episodeGuest: Jaxon Repp is the Head of Product at HarperDB. He has 25 years of experien...
S7 Bonus: Luca Rossi, Refactoring
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luca Rossi is based in Italy, and has lived there his whole life. He has studied computer science, w...
S7 Bonus: Dan Lorenc, Chainguard
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Lorenc got into tech in a roundabout way. Most of his time in school was dedicated to the study ...
S7 E4: Yuliia Tkachova, Masthead Data
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yuliia Tkachova grew up in the Ukraine, but lives in Canada now. She has a family with 2 kids, and a...
S7 Bonus: Josh Lewis, Sensible
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Lewis was fascinated by computers in the late 80's / early 90's. In the early days, he ...
S7 Bonus: Andrew Hoag, Teampay
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Hoag remembers a time before he started his own company where there were other things outside...
S7 E3: Stephany LaPierre, Tealbook
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephany LaPierre is originally from Quebec, so English is her second language. She was a ski instru...
S7 Bonus: Nat Robinson, Trustworthy
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nat Robinson is from New Zealand, and grew up there the first half of his life. He finds that growin...
S7 Bonus: Dan Draper, CipherStash
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Draper is from South Australia, specifically Adelaide, but his family now lives in Sydney. Inter...
S7 E2: Marie Ng, Llama Life
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Ng was born in Malaysia but grew up in Australia. She has lived and worked in London and New Y...
S7 Bonus: Aaron Upright, Zenhub
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Upright used to get a ton of energy staying up late and strategizing about his startup, but no...
S7 Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of ent...
S7 E1: Ian Small, Evernote
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Small is a Canadian, and claims that is the most important thing about him. Tech started for him...
Season 7 Trailer
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello listeners.Believe it or not, Season 6 has come to a close, and tomorrow, we are kicking off ye...
S6 Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook (Replay)
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him thro...
S6 Bonus: Adam Newman, Pyrl (Replay)
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Newman grew up in the suburbs of New York and Brooklyn. Now, he lives in the DC / Maryland area...
S6 Bonus: Harshil Parikh, Tromzo
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Harshil Parikh is the father of 2 daughters, as well as the father of 2 dogs. Most of the time spent...
S6 Bonus: Gavin Mendel-Gleason, TerminusDB
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When asked what he does for fun, Gavin Mendel-Gleason likes to program for fun. He builds stuff in h...
S6 Bonus: Jennifer Smith, Scribe
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Smith had an abnormal path to tech. She was born in upstate New York, and was not exposed t...
S6 E30: Liam Gerada, Krepling
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Gerada comes from an eCommerce background, building websites, stores, etc. He is passionate abo...
Microsoft Careers with Girish & Junior!
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is sponsored by Microsoft!Guests: Girish Bablani and Junior Diarrassouba, two Mi...
S6 Bonus: Addison Higham, StreamNative
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Addison Higham is a father of 2 kids, and has been married for 12 years. His family is of the utmost...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Graham Morby, Sr. Software Engineer
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who ...
S6 E29: Irina Bednova, Cordless
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Irina Bednova started programming when she was a kid, starting out with a smash the cockroach game w...
S6 Bonus: Andre Ferraz, Incognia
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Ferraz was influenced heavily by his parents, as they were both computer scientists. When he w...
S6 Bonus: Robert Cooke, 3Forge
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since he was a little kid, Robert Cooke always had a fascination with computers. Even when he w...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Daniel McElroy, WV Coding Club
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Daniel McElroy is the Founder of the West Virgi...
S6 E28: Tyson Kunosvsky, Autocloud
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tyson Kunosvsky was born in South Africa, and travelled a lot as a kid. When he was a kid, he was ma...
S6 Bonus: Saksham Sharda, Outgrow
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saksham Sharda likes to make short films, or anything that is related to videos. In fact, he has nar...
S6 Bonus: Mike Cruz, Protégé
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Cruz grew up in Guam, near Japan. He spent 18 years before moving to the US for college. He has...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Dustin Usey, Treehouse
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Dustin Usey is a Treehouse graduate and a full ...
S6 E27: Gina Bianchini, Mighty Networks
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Bianchini grew up in Cupertino in the 70's & 80's, which was a place where people w...
S6 Bonus: Omer Rosenbaum, Swimm
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Omer Rosenbaum lives in Tel Aviv, with his wife and 3 month old son. He loves to teach, and he share...
S6 Bonus: Andreas Creten, madewithlove
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Creten has been in tech for as long as he can remember, and even started a company when he w...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Cynthia Kao, Operation Code
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operat...
S6 E26: Aria Hahn, Pocketed
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aria Hahn grew up in Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada. She's always been on the entrepreneu...
S6 Bonus: Chakri Devarakonda, Tavant
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chakri Devarakonda finds it strange how he got into Quality Engineering starting out as a security g...
S6 Bonus: Ben Turner, Verituity
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Turner's grandfathers were both an entreprenuer. One grandfather went to Cornell, but ended ...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Jason Gilmore, Treehouse
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. He is al...
S6 E25: Tom Hacohen, Svix
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Tom Hacohen, coding started when he was 9 years old. He took after school robotics classes which...
S6 Bonus: Mark Porter, MongoDB
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit for him and a great journey fo...
S6 Bonus: Maria Meier, Phantasma Labs
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Meier grew up bilingual, as her Mom was from Poland and her Dad was from Germany. In her free ...
Notifications North Star - Stephanie Griffith, Marketing Expert
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Stephanie Griffith is an email and SMS marketi...
S6 E24: Matt Young, UserVoice
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Young claims to have been born with a tech spoon in his mouth, having his Dad work for IBM and ...
S6 Bonus: Tyler Rohrer, Remotely
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his words, Tyler Rohrer is best described through his spirit animal, Curious George. He likes to ...
S6 Bonus: Andrew Salvadore, Coinrule
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Salvadore is a father of 2 young boys, and when he is not working, they fill up his schedule....
Notifications North Star - Troy Goode, Courier
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Cour...
S6 E23: Franzi Low, Localyze
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Franzi Low doesn't have the usual CTO path. She studied economics, and was doing her PhD in econ...
S6 Bonus: Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shaunak Roy spent 10 years in the tech industry before deciding to be a tech entrepreneur. In underg...
Notifications North Star - Vatasha White, Courier
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Vatasha White is a Senior Software Engineer at...
S6 E22: Matt Provo, Stormforge
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Provo has been married for 16 years and has three kids. So between the Provo household and his ...
S6 Bonus: Temilola Adebayo, HumanSquad
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Temilola Adebayo is in tech, but her background is in film production. She grew up most other life i...
S6 Bonus: Christine Spang, Nylas
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to Christine Spang, she is secretly Canadian, being born in Toronto. She moved to Upstate ...
Notifications North Star - Patrick Malatack, Matrix Partners
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Patrick Malatack is a partner at Matrix Partne...
S6 E21: Douwe Maan, Meltano
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Douwe Maan started programming when he was 9 years old, and grew up with his Dad pushing Linux on hi...
S6 Bonus: Jon Dahl, Mux
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Dahl was a philosophy major in college, and eventually, obtained a graduate degree studying theo...
Notifications North Star - Eric Koslow, Lattice
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notification North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Eric Koslow is the Co-founder of Lattice, the p...
S6 E20: Izzy Azeri, mabl
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Izzy Azeri has been in the tech industry for 20 years, starting out at places like EMC and VMWare. H...
S6 Bonus: George Georgallides, Basis Health
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
George Georgallides is originally from a small island in Europe called Cypress. He grew up there, jo...
S6 Bonus: Savarth Misra, ContractPodAI
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Savarth Misra didn't start out in tech. In fact, he was a lawyer, working as a corporate commerc...
S6 E19: Kirk Marple, Unstruk Data
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kirk Marple has been a family man for 20+ years now. His kids are older now, in their 20's, whic...
S6 Bonus: Beier Cai, Commit.dev
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Beier Cai has been in the tech space for 16 years, almost exclusively in early stage startups. The t...
S6 Bonus: Patrick Bryant, CODE + TRUST
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Bryant lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and splits time in Washington, DC. He loves entr...
S6 E18: Or Weis, Permit.io
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Or Weis has been a programmer or engineer since the age of 5. He started playing with DOS commands s...
S6 Bonus: Stephanie Florio, Swob
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Florio's journey to tech started in the world of advertising. She always knew that she...
S6 E17: Girish Redekar, Sprinto
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you would have told Girish Redekar while he was in college that he would eventually be writing so...
S6 Bonus: Austin Parker, Lightstep
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Austin Parker started out at a young age with computers, writing programs in BASIC and hanging out o...
S6 Bonus: Stephen Mathai-Davis, Q.ai
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Mathai-Davis grew up in a family where he was expected to go into the buy side of Wall Stree...
S6 E16: Jimmy Jacobson, Stake.rent
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy Jacobson grew up in Snoqualmie, about 45 minutes east of Seattle, Washington. He graduated fro...
S6 Bonus: Lars Grønnegaard, Dreamdata
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Outside of technology, Lars Grønnegaard is an avid cyclist. He stats that if you've been to Cop...
S6 Bonus: Jack Naglieri, Panther Labs
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Naglieri grew up in Ohio, but moved to Virginia when he was 10. He had a normal east coast fami...
S6 E15: Itiel Schwartz, Komodor
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Itiel Schwartz, it's hard to remember life before his current venture. He studied computer s...
S6 Bonus: Todd Larsen, Tech Leaders
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the time he was very young, Todd Larsen was always interested in technology. However, he ended ...
S6 Bonus: Marin Smiljanic, Omnisearch
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marin Smiljanic was born and raised in Croatia. He attended a local math school, which actually got ...
S6 Bonus: Aaron Bromberg, StimScience
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Bromberg is living the Dad life outside of tech. His kids are 11 and 13, so he wants to spend ...
S6 E14: Joe Pettersson, Banked
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Pettersson is quite the renaissance man, with many interests and ventures he is a part of. He...
S6 Bonus: Dan Langevin, Vericred
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Langevin grew up in Madison, CT - east of New Haven. He had a good size family, with his Dad bei...
S6 Bonus: Roy Ng, Bond
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Ng moved to LA from Hong Kong when he was 10 years old, first with his Mother, with his Father f...
S6 E13: Alexander Luksidadi, Rose Rocket
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Luksidadi came to Canada in 2002 as an immigrant, with a dream to work for IBM. However, d...
S6 Bonus: Liran Haimovitch, Rookout
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liran Haimovitch is 34 years old, and recently married. He and his wife enjoy traveling and eating d...
S6 Bonus: Perry Zheng, Cash Flow Portal
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Perry Zheng graduated in 2010 from Duke University. He became a software engineer, working for big n...
S6 E12: Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bobby Gruenewald is a lifelong learner, and an activator. He majored in Finance, but was always inte...
S6 Bonus: Brandy & Ryan, Kitcaster
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brandy Whalen and Ryan Estes are two different folks, joined together in a unified mission. If you l...
Mentorcam March - Josh Campbell
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Brand BuildingJosh Ca...
S6 E11: Hywel Carver, SkillerWhale
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hywel Carver has been writing code since he was 9 years old. His first language was C, which quite a...
S6 Bonus: John Egan, Kintaba
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the i...
S6 Bonus: Dr. Gordon Jones, Thrivacy
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gordon Jones just turned 60 years old, but you wouldn't know it from his energetic, vibrant ...
Mentorcam March - Edvard Engeseath
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Angel InvestingDr. Ed...
S6 E10: Tommy Yionoulis, OpsAnalitica
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy Yionoulis has a traditional tech founder st4ry... via hotel, restaurant and standup comedy rou...
S6 Bonus: Verl Allen, Claravine
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prior to his current venture, Verl Allen spent 12 years at Adobe. During that time, he was raising 3...
S6 Bonus: What's Your Problem?
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m excited to share with you a preview from a new podcast I’ve been enjoying and think y...
Mentorcam March - Benjamin Balazs
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: All Things ProductBio...
S6 E9: Panos Siozos, LearnWorlds
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Panos Siozos and his co-founders go back 25 years or more. They all studied Computer Science togethe...
S6 Bonus: Barak Schoster, Bridgecrew
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barak Schoster claims he's generally a boring guy. What he does professionally, he also loves to...
Mentorcam March - Max Samuel
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: How VC's see your...
S6 E8: Ev Kontsevoy, Teleport
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ev Kontsevoy wanted to be an engineer when he grew up, and this was directly influenced by his engin...
S6 Bonus: Prabhjot Singh, Pyze
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prabhjot Singh has been in enterprise software for the last 22 years - so he has seen a thing or 2. ...
Mentorcam March - Rune Hauge
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Funding your startupF...
S6 E7: Brian Vallelunga, Doppler
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Vallelunga loves to build things - products, companies, or silly things on the side. In Elemen...