
Coffee and Open Source
Join host Isaac Levin as he has great conversations with folks in the technology and Open Source Community
Latest episodes

Aug 8, 2023 • 1h 21min
Phil Haack
Phil Haack is a co-founder and CTO of A Serious Business, Inc. building serious products for serious people. Very serious. We are the creators of Abbot, a Copilot for Customer Success automation.Phil has over twenty years of experience in the software industry. Prior to A Serious Business, Inc., he was a director of engineering at GitHub and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Microsoft platform.Prior to GitHub, he was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, among other projects. These products had permissive open source licenses and ushered in Microsoft's Open Source era.Phil is a co-author of GitHub for Dummies as well as the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He's also made several appearances on technology podcasts such as .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and The Official jQuery Podcast.
You can find Phil Haack on the following sites:
Twitter
Mastodon
Threads
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Abbot
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Aug 1, 2023 • 1h
Alyssa Miller
Alyssa Miller is a hacker who, in her pre-teens, bought her first computer and hacked her way into a paid dial-up community platform. She grew up in hacker culture, finding her hacker family in IRC channels during her adolescent years. While IT was not her original career plan, she ended up working as a developer and later a penetration tester in the financial services industry. As she moved into consulting, her focus on defending technology systems and personal privacy grew to the point where she was advising fortune 100 companies on how to build comprehensive security programs.Alyssa is now the CISO at New York based Epiq Global. Still very much a hacker to this day, she’s built on that identity to grow her career. She is an internationally recognized public speaker and author of “Cybersecurity Career Guide”. She’s an advocate for helping others make a career out of their passion for hacking and security in general. She’s also a proponent for the open sharing of ideas and perspectives on improving our technologically connected world.
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Mastodon
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Alyssa's Book
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Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 4min
Linda Haviv
Linda is a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based out of NYC. You can find her building in the cloud, sometimes 'Singing as a Service', and connecting with the tech community. She frequently share tips & 'Techtorials' about cloud computing and coding on TikTok & Instagram (@LindaVivah).
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Website
YouTube
LinkedIn
Blog
Instagram
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Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 2min
Carl Tashian
Carl Tashian is an engineer, writer, exec coach, and startup all-rounder. He's currently an Offroad Engineer at Smallstep. He co-founded and built the engineering team at Trove, and he wrote the code that opens your Zipcar. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Siobhan and he loves to play the modular synthesizer.
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https://tech.lgbt/@tashian
https://tashian.com/
https://github.com/tashian
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tashian/
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https://smallstep.com/
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Jun 6, 2023 • 1h 4min
Lizzie Siegle
Lizzie serves developers in the Bay Area and beyond on Twilio's developer evangelism team and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bryn Mawr. She likes Swift, JavaScript, and working with AI, but has been seen writing Python and Haskell as well. When not organizing or attending hackathons and meetups, she enjoys tennis, ping pong, and all things Disney.
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https://twitter.com/lizziepika
https://www.lizziesiegle.xyz/
https://lizziepika.substack.com/
https://github.com/elizabethsiegle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsiegle/
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May 30, 2023 • 1h 2min
Vlad Ionescu
Founder of Earthly, Founder of ShiftLeft, exGoogle, exVMware engineer, early team member of RabbitMQ team.
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https://vladaionescu.com/
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https://earthly.dev/
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May 16, 2023 • 1h 3min
Bryan Hogan
Bryan Hogan has been working in the tech industry for 20 years, most of which has been spent in the C# .NET world. He hosts a podcast, interviewing people in the tech industry from around the world and writes a blog. Bryan lives in the Boston area where is he is involved in the tech community through local events and his podcast.
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https://nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net/
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https://nodogmapodcast.bryanhogan.net/
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May 9, 2023 • 60min
Chris O'Dell
Chris has spent over 15 years as a backend engineer, primarily working on distributed systems and cloud based services, including a large microservices platform. She has also led teams developing internal build and deployment tooling with the goal of improving the developer’s experience. Chris currently works at Stack Overflow helping to empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Chris is also a conference speaker on the topics of Continuous Delivery and development practices. She is a contributor to the book Build Quality In and co-authored the book Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET.
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https://twitter.com/ChrisAnnODell
https://speakerdeck.com/chrisann
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Apr 11, 2023 • 1h 3min
Chris Klug
Chris Klug is a developer badass-as-a-service that either creates or solves problems depending on who you ask. He loves creating and building things. Whether it be a new application, a new kitchen or a new RC helicopter, you will see him building things all the time. Most of the time, that means writing code and solving problems for clients at a company called Active Solution in Stockholm though. Except for the many days he spends at conferences and usergroups, talking about doing things he is passionate about, and for the days he goes mountain biking, IPSC shooting, kiteboarding or RC helicopter flying.
For the last 15-something years, he has been solving problems for customers, and loving it. But if he gets to choose, he'll go to the beach and kitesurf every day!
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https://twitter.com/ZeroKoll
https://www.fearofoblivion.com/
https://github.com/chrisklug
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Apr 4, 2023 • 54min
Nikil Nandagopal
Throughout his career, Nikhil Nandagopal has always looked for a better way to do things: he’s built out a logistics operation for the largest e-commerce company in India (a direct competitor to Amazon), helped build up a travel company with over 5 million users, and even worked to scale a food delivery service from 50 meal deliveries a day to over 50,000.
Now, his focus is on internal tools. From developer to product manager to entrepreneur (twice!), Nikhil's experience lends itself to both sides of the internal tool development conversation. Engineers need helpful internal software, but hate actually sitting down and making it for themselves. And businesses must use tools if they want to scale properly.
Nikhil wanted to find a way to turn the arduous work of app-making into a streamlined process that would only cost engineers hours instead of months. So he teamed up with Arpit Mohan and Abhishek Nayak to create Appsmith, a program built to put easily customizable tools directly into developers’ hands. What started as a small open-source project has become a program that is used daily by over 10,000 teams, employs people in eight different countries, and has raised over $50 Million in capital. With a project built by engineers, for engineers, Nikhil is helping companies work better and dream bigger.
You can follow Nikil on Social Media
https://twitter.com/NikilNandagopal
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-nandagopal-05534241/
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https://www.appsmith.com/
https://twitter.com/theappsmith
https://www.instagram.com/the_appsmith/
https://www.youtube.com/c/Appsmith
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