Alexa's Input (AI)

Evan Anderson, Senior Staff Engineer at VMWare, joins me on part 2 of this episode to discuss Istio's role in Knative, Knative's goals, features, requirements and dependencies, provisioning resources in a serverless world, the future of serverless, removing barriers for developers and much more!  Evan graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He worked at Google for 15 years and left as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. He now works at VMWare as a Senior Staff Engineer and manages the open-source project Knative. Links: Evan's twitter, linkedin, Knative's YouTube You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Evan Anderson, Senior Staff Engineer at VMWare, joins me on this episode to discuss the meaning of "serverless", his work experience at Google, the development of projects like Kubernetes and Knative, his thoughts around the cloud, managing an open-source project, and much more!  Evan graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He worked at Google for 15 years and left as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. He now works at VMWare as a Senior Staff Engineer and manages the open-source project Knative. Links: Evan's twitter, linkedin, Knative's YouTube You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Danica Fine, Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent, joins this episode to talk about how Confluent provides tools for creating a streaming data platform. We discuss what Confluent is and the problems it solves, Confluent Cloud, Kafka, some interesting use cases and much more!  Danica graduated with a B.A. in Logic, Information, and Computation and a Masters of Science in Engineering in Scientific Computing from the University of Pennsylvania. Danica worked as a software engineer for almost 5 years at Bloomberg, where she worked on streaming infrastructure. Danica has been working at Confluent as a Senior Developer Advocate for a little over one year. Links: Danica's twitter, Confluent's YouTube channel, Confluent's engineering blog You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

In this episode, Donna Hutchinson, Senior Software Engineer at CircleCI, joins me to discuss her path into tech as someone with a nontraditional background, her experiences with workspace environments and how to make sure that you are in a space where you are supported and can grow, how being a woman has affected her career as a software engineer, and much more!  Donna graduated from Queen's University Belfast with First Class Honours in BSc Business Information Technology. She then went to work for JP Morgan Chase & Co. before transitioning to CircleCI, working as a Senior Software Engineer. You can find my Kubecon EU talk here: Exploring ML Model Serving with KServe (with fun drawings) - Alexa Nicole Griffith, Bloomberg You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Daniel Berlind, co-founder/CEO of Snappt Inc and President of Berlind Properties, joins me on this episode to discuss his experience founding his first tech startup. We talk about what he learned from being a professional baseball player, cofounder relationships, success that comes through failure, experiencing two accelerators, when to pivot your business and find product-market fit, pitching to VCs and choosing the right ones help build the company, aligning on values and culture, and much more! You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Anna Rosenthal, Software Engineer at Github, joins me in this episode to talk about leaving a company. We discuss a variety of topics including work relationships, when to leave, reasons for/against leaving, learning and pay, interviewing, recruiters, rejections, offers, and much more!  Anna's links: Twitter and Substack You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Mahmoud Arram, co-founder and CTO of Bluecore, joins me on this episode to discuss the importance of having a co-founder you trust, his previous startup ideas and side projects, how he got into e-commerce and the idea for Bluecore developed, the process of pitching their idea and going through Techstars, how his role has changed throughout time, scaling while maintaining innovation, and much more!  You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Tameem Iftikhar joins me on this talks with founders episode to discuss his career path, his experiences working in early-stage startups and being a co-founder, the tech stars program, and much more! While Tameem was getting his degree from the University of Toronto, he participated in a co-op at IBM and worked for the startup Nightly.to. After graduating he worked for SurfEasy and then Symantec as a Principal Engineer when it was acquired. Now, he is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Flywheel.  You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Guillermo (Memo) Sanchez joins this episode to talk about being a tech founder. After working at FactSet for over 5 years, he co-founded Reonomy. Then, he was a manager at Blink Health and VP of Engineering at DelShah Capital before co-founding another startup, Pragmic that was recently acquired by dev01. Memo discusses getting into tech, his first startup and the lessons he learned, navigating co-founder relationships, going through an acquisition, why he went to a bigger company after his first startup, the advice he has for anyone looking to found a startup now, and much more!  You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.

Harry Wolff, Director of Engineering at MongoDB, discusses his experiences as a manager and director, his career as a frontend developer, frontend engineering at MongoDB, how he shares knowledge and content through his YouTube channel, and much more. You can check out Harry Wolff's content on his website here and his YouTube channel here -- make sure to subscribe to his channel!  You can support this podcast on the anchor page. Make sure to subscribe and follow Alexa's Input Twitter account to get notified when a new podcast episode comes out.