The Accidental Engineer: Recent Episodes
Max Mautner
As a computer science PhD student in 2010, Ben Weber started an annual tradition: the Starcraft AI Tournament.
Ryan Burgess started the Frontend Happy Hour podcast with several friends several years back.
Floris Porro co-founded Stream My Event to enable corporate clients to broadcast live events online.
Ben Osheroff created the popular MySQL change-data capture tool Maxwell’s Daemon while at Zendesk.
Nelson Elhage most recently spent 7 years at Stripe, spearheading developer productivity initiatives.
Fedor Korotkov founded Cirrus Labs after holdling developer productivity roles at Twitter, AirBnB and JetBrains.
Hamel Husain is Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Github where he champions data analytics and open data initiatives.
Brian Douglas creates explainer-style videos about systems engineering concepts through his media company, Engineering Media.
Darren Nelson is a Systems Engineering Manager at NAVSEA, the engineering arm of the US Navy.
Elissa Shevinsky is CEO at Faster Than Light, a startup tackling the field of static code analysis.
Michelle Glaser joins the show to share her unique path from starting her career in Public Health to becoming the Director, Analytics at WW International, formerly Weight Watchers.
Vlad Riscutia is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft where he works on growth analytics.
Adam Gordon Bell is a senior engineer at Tenable when he isn’t hosting his own podcast, Corecursive.
Stuart Sandine post-college path led him from his first jobs as a delivery driver to software engineering.
George Arison co-founded Shift out of his apartment in the Castro neighorhood of San Francisco.
Will Ballard, CTO at Gerson Lerhman Group, has learned a ton about the issues that matter to leading engineering orgs.
Both Jamie Pittman and Meghan Combs made big career leaps to become software engineers.
Forrest Xiao joins the show to share his unique story of starting his career at Goldman Sachs, leaving everything behind to travel the world, and finding his way into Data Science where is currently a senior manager of data science at Trustpilot.
Meggie Mahnken joins the show to share about Hackbright Academy, the all-women software engineering bootcamp.
Anand Kulkarni re-joins the show to share the latest with Crowdbotics, the software building service.
Ray Sennewald manages build and release pipelines at Box, the file-hosting corporation.
Andrea Fineman designs the way that users interact with the Getaround car rental service.
Paul Hammant runs his own DevOps consultancy, bringing software engineering teams back from the brink of tech debt bankruptcy.
Peter Cooper founded Cooperpress to deliver software engineering content to a massive audience.
Allen Cheung has a wealth of perspective on the transitions that software engineers make in the job market.
Allen Rohner is an open-source contributor to the Clojure programming language, and he most recently co-founded the fintech startup Griffin.
Aline Lerner, CEO + Founder at Interviewing.io rejoins the show to share engineering career insights.
Itamar Turner-Trauring talks and books have reached large audiences in the software engineering community.
Ellen Chisa has been an engineer and product manager at Kickstarter and Microsoft, before most recently co-founding Dark.
Taft Love runs inside sales at HouseCanary, a home-valuation startup that offers Software-as-a-Service.
Ben Gotow is Principal Engineer at Foundry 376 where he helps bring iOS apps to fruition.
Josh Redel is coming up on 7 years with Google as a Senior Program Manager on core search.
Uncle Bob of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC joined to discuss the existential risks that the software engineering profession faces in 2018.
Jeff Meyerson hosts Software Engineering Daily, a similar podcast to our own that publishes new episodes weekdays.
Adam Arnold graduated from college with an architecture degree from USC, but when his post-graduation job fell through he made a brave decision at the time and moved back to northern California to start at Autodesk.
Ray Holt’s career spans the Cold War and now, as a teacher in Mississippi, Ray is actively passing on his own education as an accidental engineer.
Leslie Carr and Alyssa Whitwell of Clover Health join us today to discuss techniques for continuing to learn once you’re no longer a junior engineer!
Chang She started his career at hedge fund AQR Capital Management before leaving finance to co-found DataPad with his college classmate, Wes McKinney. DataPad was acquired by Cloudera in 2014 and now Chang manages a team within Cloudera.
Today Patrick Wong and Andrew Jarmon, of Glassdoor and Mercer respectively–join us to discuss the origin of their employer’s compensation datasets and some of the analysis that they perform on behalf of their employers and clients.
Bill Karwin’s name precedes himself, as he is among the top 0.01% of StackOverflow users, and the online community perhaps knows him best for his generosity in sharing information about relational databases.
It was only after some hard-learned lessons in the film industry that Daniel Kang made a career change and joined a fellow church-member’s law firm to provide IT services.
After graduating from Columbia, Mark Weiss started his career as a journalist in New Jersey.
Daniel Gerlanc graduated from Williams College and started his career in financial services, just before the 2008 financial crisis hit.
Itamar Turner-Trauring has learned lessons the hard way–he shares those lessons at his blog Code Without Rules.
Aaron Zarraga began his career as a hardware engineer at Amazon in San Jose on the Concept Engineer team.
While Spencer Kline graduated from college with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, he learned Ruby on Rails after graduation.
Kat Gordiienko began her career working full-time as an accountant while completing her senior year of college as an economics major.
Steve Kinney of Denver, CO is Principal Engineer at SendGrid–however that was not always the case!
Ron Maltiel of RMG and Associates joins us to share his wealth of experience on providing legal testimony as an expert on engineering of semiconductors.
Fede Alvarez del Blanco is in his second year of his MBA degree at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Jose Moreno, Senior Software Architect at Netflix joins us for a conversation about how he became a software engineer and applies machine learning to solve problems in the entertainment business.
Andy Schriner joins us to share methods in an engineers’ toolkit for accommodating risk in a project.