2019

Leon Fayer began his prolific software engineering career some 25 years ago in government contracting, and has since shifted gears to focus on the private sector. His multi-sector gives him unique insight into the ways technology has come to define every discipline of commerce. After years of founding and running successful start-ups, Leon now works […]

Entrepreneur Michael Dash had it all — a multi-million dollar business, cars, real estate, you name it. He also had a compulsive and addictive personality that led him to gambling, drugs, and a destructive path that brought it all down. In his new book, “Chasing the High,” Michael lays out his path to redemption in […]

AI pioneer, Sandra Carrico, joins Ledge in this fascinating episode where she recounts the early days of AI, the early 80s AI winter, and the dawn of computational linguistics. Now the VP of Engineering and Chief Data Scientist at Glynt.ai, she works daily with the company’s ML systems to refine the patented algorithms she invented […]

Caleb Ontiveros, who left the University of Notre Dame’s PhD program in philosophy to pursue a career in tech, is often asked by people studying philosophy how he transitioned to software engineering and programming. Caleb created the Facebook group, Philosophers in Software Engineering to help others like him. The group’s members collect and share advice […]

Software may be written on machines, but it’s written by and for human beings. That’s according to Ledge’s guest, April Wensel founder, of Compassionate Coding, a company offering advice and workshops to engineering teams on how to bring a more human touch to the workplace. “We weren’t caring enough about human beings in the engineering […]

Eric Hauser has spent his entire career working in software engineering. Beginning with stack development and ending up in management, Eric is currently working for Drone Deploy, a San Francisco based startup that develops drone technology.  Ledge and Eric sat down to discuss Drone Deploy’s business model, and how the company focuses on developing drone […]

A 20-year veteran of software engineering, Oren Boiman’s Bay Area-based Magisto has reached 100 million users over the last decade. Oren has been a visionary in his field, understanding the importance of AI well ahead of the curve. Magisto is a pioneering video editing app, which employs AI to assist with the editing process. This […]

With over 50 years of existence, email is one of those things we just take for granted. But it is by no means solved: there is an ongoing conflict between security, control, and user experience. Who hasn’t struggled to organize all the information scattered through emails ahead of an important call? Alexis Panagides is the […]

Video ads for B2C are all the ra ge in 2019: we expect our favorite brands to reach out to us through engaging, high quality video content. But what about B2B? Can video help move your customers through your funnel faster? Graeme McLaughlin is the Head of Strategy at Explainify, where he helps B2B companies […]

Ryan Yockey has accrued an enviable résumé, after over 15 years of working with a wide variety of cutting-edge companies.  A self-taught dev, Ryan founded his own art business, DNA Imprints, in 2006, and currently works as Director of Engineering at FabFitfun; an innovative firm that dispatches boxes packed with health-related goodies to mostly female […]

John Feland attempts to measure the impossible! In a world in which the consumer market is increasingly defined by data, John Feland assists companies with enhancing their social capital; the trust that consumers place in their brand. Over a diverse and impressive career, beginning with research posts at Stanford, Feland has continually refined his understanding […]

For our special 100th episode, Ledge sat down with Gun.io’s founder and CEO, Teja Yenamadra for a first-time telling of the history of the company going all the way back to the dorm room days and tracing a winding road of pivots and relationships to today’s premium developer and client experiences. You can also watch […]