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.
Borrowing Innovation from Aerospace Technology with Sina Golshany
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 […]
Pragmatic Microservice Design: keep calm, and ship code with Daniel Knight
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 […]
Improving The Product to Market Process to Deliver Faster with Tom Dodds
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 […]
Solving Customer Problems as a Sales Engineer with Chris Goodman of SentinelOne
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 […]
Launching a tech startup inside of a legacy enterprise with Alex Behrens of RoomIt
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 […]
Startup life, stability, payroll, and change with Mong Truong of Primitive Logic
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 […]
Modern CI/CD Tools with Legacy Mainframes with Tim Ceradsky of Compuware
When you hear “mainframe” I bet you think “old school,” or “dinosaur,” or at the very least “legacy.” After this episode with Compuware’s Tim Ceradsky, you might change your mind. With hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL driving the vast majority of transaction processing in the US economy, mainframes aren’t going anywhere any time […]
Behavior-Driven Development to Empower Stakeholders with David Morgan
When it comes to Quality Assurance, the hot buzz words are “automation” and “moving left.” It’s true that automated testing beats manual, but throwing a bunch of automated tests on your UI just to increase your test coverage isn’t productive. A holistic QA approach means everyone from product to engineering to business stakeholders is on […]
Stuck in a Career Rut? Improve Your Public Speaking Skills with Poornima Vijayashanker
There comes a time in almost every engineer’s career where they may need to communicate with a customer, train a teammate, pitch a project, or prove they are credible to a potential client. Poornima Vijayashanker was the founding engineer of Mint.com where she launched v1 of the ubiquitous personal finance platform. She went on to […]
Building an Engineering Recruitment Process that Candidates Love with Alan Spadoni
Alan Spadoni is the Director of Engineering at Buildout. He’s was an engineering leader at Groupon for six years prior to his current post. Alan shares some awesome insights on making your engineering culture attractive from a recruiting perspective in a highly constrained hiring environment, especially when you’re recruiting for talent on technologies that are […]
The Intersection of AI and Medicine with Robert Fratila
One of most promising areas for artificial intelligence research rests at the intersection of biology and medicine. That’s where we found Robert Fratila, CTO and Co-founder of Aifred Health. He and his team won an XPRIZE at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. He’s worked on brain-state classifiers, computer vision packages for autonomous […]
Post-Crypto Distributed Ledger Technology for Business Leaders with Mike Talbot
Mike Talbot is the CTO of Veracity Consulting where he leads their data and emerging technologies practices. He writes and advises on distributed ledger technology for government and business clients and he’s the author of “A Brief Description of Blockchain,” which aims to break this hot topic into layman’s terms for business decision makers. In […]