2019

David Feinman is the CEO of Viral Ideas Marketing. We met him in his role as one of the Community Managers of Online Geniuses, a huge internet marketing community known for their industry leader AMAs. In this episode David and I compare notes about customer experience and UX as leads become trials and users become […]

Boston Code Viking, Steff Kelsey started as engineer #3 at Notarize. This episode was recorded while he was their VP of Engineering, leading a team of 40. He’s now the VPE of Appcues.  Scaling an engineering org is challenging enough on it’s own, but what about doing that in a totally new market segment? That’s […]

A veteran of Microsoft, Groupon, and now Mode Analytics, Engineering Leader, Ushashi Chakraborty has gotten used to hearing the most abnormal feedback: “I love coming to your meetings!”  She realized after some reflection that her extensive improv experience through Chicago’s famed Second City Conservatory, had instilled in her skills and habits that were just as […]

Practitioners turned tech founders give us a unique view into the customer discovery process because they usually start their companies in order to solve a problem they’ve experienced themselves. Such is the case for attorney turned startup founder Alex Nordholm, CEO of DealWIP, a legal tech startup whose product is a SaaS due diligence project […]

Google Staff Developer Advocate Kelsey Hightower is tech community famous for his down-to-earth and refreshingly funny keynotes. In this episode we talk about putting people first and tools second on the path to engaging and authentic engineering practice.

Sina Golshany is the Director of Technology at Fabricated Extrusion Company. He previously spent 8 years at Boeing in various aerospace engineering roles. Sina established and manages the computational engineering function responsible for supporting the custom extrusion business and product design needs of customers in various industries including, heavy machinery, aerospace, automotive, medical devices and […]

In its purest form, the microservices architectural pattern tells us to “dream small” while designing services, which is all well and good, but how small is still useful? Pragmatic microservice design helps draw some useful boundaries, and keeps our eyes on shipping product.  In this episode we talk to Director of Engineering Daniel Knight about […]

Business and technology leaders face consistent pressure to bring products to market faster. Never in the last quarter century has the pace of change, the quantity of available tools, and the raw compute power been greater. In this episode, slashBlue CEO Tom Dodds joins me to talk about how to build technology that’s aligned with […]

When we talk about the software development lifecycle, we often focus on the product and engineering functions, potentially leaving out a critical team: Sales, and specifically Sales Engineers. To add a little color to this role, we invited Chris Goodman, Director of Integrations and Alliances from SentinelOne. Chris gives a different look at customer empathy […]

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) is a global leader in the B2B Travel Management space. The Hotels division within CWT was rebranded as RoomIt in the summer of 2017. My guest in this episode, Alex Behrens, was brought in as Director of Engineering to lead that effort.  It’s no small feat to build an entirely new […]

There’s a difference between working for a startup, founding a startup, working freelance, and working as a consultant for a company on payroll. It all comes down to the risk profile you are willing and able to tolerate, and that is itself a function of the stage of life you’re in and other variables. In […]