David Ledgerwood
David is a Managing Partner at Add1Zero where his team provides lead-to-close sales execution for tech-enabled B2B services companies ready to leap from 6 to 7 digits of revenue. He is also a co-host of the Leaders of B2B podcast. When David isn’t working, he spends time with his five kids and frequently travels between Dallas and Nashville to keep his interstate marriage alive.
Technical Evangelism as The Voice of Building Better Software with Priyanka Sharma
What exactly is “technical evangelism?” At Gitlab, it’s sharing opinions on what’s going on in the community as technologists — helping each other to collectively move forward to build better, ship better, and operationalize better so software is more responsive to customer needs. That’s according to Ledge’s guest, Priyanka Sharma. The great thing about evangelists? […]
Managing Teams with The Iron Triangle of Engineering Leadership with Colin Henry
You might have heard of the “Iron Triangle” of software development: Cost, Quality, and Speed. You can only choose two. How about the “Iron Triangle” of engineering leadership? No, it’s not a new Game of Thrones episode, but it is an extremely useful tool for implementing leadership across your organization. In this version you choose […]
The Engineering Magic Behind Low Code Platforms with Alex Howard of Brandcast
What if digital and marketing teams could really launch amazing web apps without needing developers? That’s the promise of low-code and no-code platforms. The interesting paradox is the extensive engineering required to create and maintain them. That’s what makes this work so interesting: freeing developers to work on challenging problems while enabling others to achieve […]
Technology for good and people-first FTW with Kevon Saber of GoCheckKids
Embracing technology to make the world a better place; that’s a common theme with this podcast. Kevon Saber’s story continues to weave that fabric. Kevon started his tech career developing mobile games, later making a personal pivot to focus more on the cross-section of business and people. After completing his MBA at Stanford, he went […]
Avoid The Fog of Development Through Continuous Learning with Ravi Lachhman of Cisco
It only takes a few minutes of talking to Ravi Lachhmann before you realize, “This dude seriously loves engineering.” That personality serves him well as a Technical Evangelist at Cisco company AppDynamics. Ravi’s perspectives on production outages, operating what you build, and “Netflixian” organizational design all come back to one root idea: keep learning, and […]
Tips on Technology Leadership from One Phone Call with Sherri Hammons of The Nature Conservancy
Imagine this: you get a call for a CTO job. The company has never had a CTO. It’s a global company with boots on the ground in every country and all 50 states. It gathers scientific data in droves that very well might save the planet. What would you do next? Sherri Hammons knows the […]
Improving UX with Automated Business Solutions with Tyler Foster of Sentient Technologies
Tyler Foster is the Vice President of Engineering for Sentient Technologies. As both a senior individual contributor and executive, Tyler has spent more than 18 years delivering technical solutions to the worlds hardest problems. Tyler’s past-experience includes leading firmware and control system development for subglacial lake exploration ROVs deployed in Antarctica with the MSLED / […]
Digital transformation and the right tool for the job with Dan Morgan of Unitas Global
Dan Morgan is a lifelong Chicagoan, with nearly 20 years of experience as a developer and manager. He’s worked across multiple industries including entertainment, paper products, transportation logistics, and health care. Technology is Dan’s passion: he worked for five years on research data science with the University of Chicago, and currently serves as VP of Software Engineering & Development at […]
Coordinating engineering teams to build a seamless user experience with Ryan Burgess of Netflix
In this episode, Ledge chats with Ryan Burgess, Software Engineering Manager at Netflix, about leading their Acquisition UI team optimizing the signup and login processes for one of highest usage apps on the planet. They discuss the challenges of coordinating among engineering teams at massive scale, working on technologies that span a multitude of different […]
Open Source, the grey areas, and keeping sharp with community with Ahmad Nassri of TechMasters
Ahmad Nassri is a force in the open source world. Any given day you can find him leading advisory groups at the Node.js Foundation, kicking off OSS conferences, or masterminding technology communities like TechMasters. You might be surprised to know he’s also an architectural lead at one of the world’s largest telco companies. Wait…How does […]
Microsoft Azure Insights From a Developer Advocate with Burke Holland of Microsoft
Burke Holland is a Nashville-based Developer Advocate for Microsoft. He’s one of the rare people who’s had a developer advocate position since way back in 2011, so I asked him about his path to what we now have started calling Dev Rel. In this episode Burke answers questions like what is a developer advocate? What […]
How to scale DevOps, standards, and automation in a high-growth agency with Tyler Shambora of Pack Digital
I spoke to Tyler Shambora in late 2018. At the time of this recording he was the Directory of Technology at BVA. He recently founder Pack Digital, an e-commerce agency focused on innovation and conversion. Tyler’s role at BVA ecompassed a mixed bag of workflow, devops, standards, and automation. While attempting personal study in those […]