Frontier

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Gun.io’s Frontier Podcast is dedicated to exploring business innovation through technology.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rusty Wilson started his career as a signals intelligence analyst in the US Army where, while deployed in Korea, he cut his algorithmic teeth on Perl scripts that ended up slicing days of processing time from his intelligence data processing before “Big Data” was even a catch phrase. Rusty is a Certified Ethical Hacker, and […]

Simon Reggiani is a multi-platform native and hybrid mobile developer with over a decade of experience launching apps on iOS and Android using Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, and React Native. Simon shares his opinions and insights based on his experience at Slack and other high-growth startups. He talks about when businesses should go native vs. […]

Jim Nasr is Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Synchrogenix where he spearheads strategy and implementation of emerging technologies such as large scale blockchain and machine learning in healthcare and the life sciences. He previously served as Chief Software Architect for the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this episode Jim […]

Steve Peak is the founder and CEO of Asyncy, an ambitious foray into the brave new world of DevOps automation, orchestration, and choreography. An accomplished software engineer himself, Steve’s contributions to the development toolchain includes other efforts like Codecov.io, which he founded in 2015. The future of application choreography in the cloud era requires new […]