Frontier

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 […]

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 / […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nick Lumsden, COO of Online Tech, joined me in late 2018 to chat “digital transformation” or as I put it, “Hey, what’s exciting between legacy and bleeding edge?” It turns out companies can make a pretty big mess when they throw all of their workloads on the cloud without a decent plan. The technology is […]

The fourth book in the Architecture of Open Source Applications series is called “500 Lines or Less.” The book focuses on the design decisions that developers make in the small when they are building something new. Marina Samuel, Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla, is one of the authors featured in the book, for which she […]

Jason Lengstorf runs developer relations at Gatsby, a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps.  By addressing the problem of app launch from the perspective of progressive disclosure of complexity, Gatsby’s entire ethos is designed around shipping fast React components generated from and requiring the […]

“Manager Voltron” Lara Hogan knows some things about high performing engineering teams.  Following roles as Engineering Director at Etsy and VPE at Kickstarter, she founded Wherewithall to run workshops, trainings, and coaching on delivering great feedback, setting clear expectations, and balancing mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring — all critical skills for anyone rising through the engineering […]

Innovative shopping experiences drive e-commerce revenues by turning shoppers into buyers. In this episode I talk with Andrew Guldman, VP of Product Engineering and R&D at Fluid. Andrew and his team have innovated the Fluid Configure product all the way from Flash and Flex to React and Node. Their metadata and decision engine tackles the […]