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Three-time CTO, Rich Brown, put in his Fortune 500 time across the enterprise sector at Bank of America, SAP, and others.  Ledge and Rich discuss the trade-offs of native and hybrid, cloud and local, and the true experience end users are looking for. We talk about the evolution of Microsoft and the company’s re-evolution in […]

Damian Schenkelman is the Director of Engineering at Auth0. Ledge reached him at his remote office in Brazil.  Auth0 provides SDKs and APIs for identification and login. Auth0 is the Stripe of logging into websites and apps. As an engineering director, Damian’s number one objective is scaling engineering teams: making sure the right people are […]

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Nav Bhachech, who boasts an impressive CV having worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, to talk about his work with various SV-area startups. Nav goes into detail about his work with developing Microsoft Office apps, utilizing add-on and API functionality in standard Office applications. He discusses the issues […]

Steve Cumbia, VP of Technology at ACS Technologies, joins Ledge in this enlightening chat about the role of faith in their technology company’s surprising longevity. ACS Technologies began building software for churches and other faith-based organisations in 1977. Steve shares how faith underpins their company culture, and how it drives the business in a deeper […]

Do we take software demos for granted? Should we be investing more energy and attention into demo UX? CEO and founder of Omedym, Greg Dickinson, believes so. Omedym’s solution helps companies craft interactive software demo experiences, intelligently delivering answers to would-be buyers’ questions in real time. As Internet culture wreaks havoc on our attentions spans, […]

Jason Zubrick has enjoyed a trailblazing career in retail finance, helping small-scale outlets revolutionize their technology approach, as the CTO at defi SOLUTIONS. defi’s loan origination solution provides banks, credit unions, and auto lenders with a flexible technology platform that enables modern lending programs. Innovation and accuracy underpin performance in this  industry and Jason emphasizes […]

Mobile app security expert Domingo Guerra is an authority in a field that’s growing at a frenetic pace. As the founder of Appthority, Domingo witnessed first-hand how businesses require increasing levels of assistance to properly secure critical business data and protect consumers on mobile platforms. When Appthority was acquired by Symantec, Domingo continued his work […]

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 […]