Chasing Squirrels: Recent Episodes
Jeff Winkler
Each episode is a LIVE job post looking for a software engineer. We interview the hiring managers and decision makers to see what they are looking for in a candidate for each position to give you a greater insight into the culture and company itself. They will highlight their company and the position itself so you don't have to waste time applying to jobs you don't even want. Head over to GoldenSquirrel.io and leave your email address and the minimum salary that would interest you in exploring another opportunity and we’ll email you podcast episodes along with the salary range and interview process, BUT only if it meets your salary requirements. If you don’t hear from us then you’ll know the grass isn’t greener on the other side of the fence and you can get back to work and focus on your next ticket.
Ben is currently looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Parakeeto team.
Parakeeto is based in Canada so the applicant would preferably be based in Canada. This is a remote role and a very unique role for someone that would like to learn the skill set of being a technical cofounder. While this isn't a cofounder role, you would be working side by side with Ben who has himself, been involved in several startups and mentored many more in their growth journey. If you want to have a seat at the table and work side by side with a startup software veteran, this is your chance!
You can apply for the opportunity here:
https://www.goldensquirrel.io/job-post/28-senior-data-engineer
In this episode, Chris, CTO at Curemint.io shares his experiences and lessons learned from starting multiple businesses, including a game cheats business, an iPhone app store business, and an agency for weed companies. He discusses the challenges he faced, such as refusing bitcoin as payment and the difficulties of getting an app on the App Store. He also shares tips for entrepreneurs, such as diversifying and focusing on a specific niche.
Chris also talks about his experience working with Curemint, almost starting a real estate software company, and the importance of having a clear focus when building a product. Additionally, he shares his thoughts on junior engineers and the importance of having a strong understanding of computer science principles. The video also includes several rants on topics such as feature factory development, the importance of a code buddy, and the challenges of not overbuilding.
Insights into his interview process as well as what he looks for in engineers is included as well!
He's currently look for a Senior Software Engineer to join him and his team at CureMint.
You can apply:
https://curemint.applytojob.com/apply/s3TbuFmO0K/Senior-Software-Engineer?source=Our%20Career%20Page%20Widget
OR
goldenwsquirrel.io/job-posts
Referenced in podcast:
https://github.com/CureMintInc/senior_software_engineer
Brian is a proven expert in business and emerging technology. A successful entrepreneur, he has created and managed many companies that are disruptors in their fields, with a passionate focus on customer experience. He has a practical, holistic management style that embraces the fact that happy, motivated employees deliver customer value, and that customer value delivers shareholder value.
He has practical knowledge in technology business start-up and management, developed from over 20 years of hands-on experience. He's intimately familiar with design patterns of both business and technology, he's comfortable as a business leader, a technology architect, and is always ready to roll up his sleeves and do some coding.
With his start-up background, he's comfortable in an environment with rapidly changing priorities, and the wearing of "many hats". He has a healthy distaste for "conventional wisdom" and instead challenges people to collaborate, engage in original thought, try new things, and to prove their hypotheses empirically.
To apply directly to work with Brian: indeedhi.re/3PVok3v
Joshua Crumbaugh is an engaging and internationally respected cybersecurity subject matter expert, author, and keynote speaker. During Joshua‘s ethical hacking career, he has never encountered a single network that could keep him or his teams out. He has also accomplished many impressive social engineering feats, such as: talking his way into bank vaults, fortune 500 data centers, corporate offices, restricted areas of casinos, and more. His experience in all things security led him to realize something had to change. This realization led him to found PhishFirewall, where he is the CEO and Chief Hacker. Joshua is one of the world’s most accomplished social engineers and the world’s leading expert on cybersecurity awareness.
To apply to this role, go to:
- GoldenSquirrel.io/employer/phishfirewall OR
- email josh@phishfirewall.com
If I could summarize today's episode with one quote, it's one quoted by Josh in today's episode, "Sometimes when you hear hoof beats coming, it's Zebra's".
Josh is an example of how having a non-traditional background can actually be leveraged in tech and how to embrace all the opportunities that come your way!
Links from today's episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/holmesjosh/
jholmes@qcashfinancial.com
https://seattlegivecamp.org/
@joshholmes
joshholmes.com
GoldenSquirrel.io
Igor has been in the trenches for a few decades now whether it be as a developer, entrepreneur or CTO.
His LinkedIn profile describes it best: "Helping startups make good choices"
Here is Igor's contact info if you are interested in reaching out to him about the position we discuss in today's episode:
igor@fastcto.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorbelagorudsky/
To find additional opportunities or sign up to hear about opportunities that meet your salary requirements as a developer, visit GoldenSquirrel.io
Ez is currently hiring a Senior Data Scientist:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2759276758/
Ez and I discuss more specifically what you'll be working on in this week's episode!
Find Ez on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/enadar/
Jon brings the unique blend of building, managing and motivating world-class teams, combined with a track record of operational discipline across all aspects of an organization. He is a technology go-to-market executive who builds the talent and the strategies that lead companies to accelerated growth.
He has managed zero to multimillion-dollar growth numerous times; built and led teams in sales, marketing, systems engineering, and client services; directed and supported product launches; raised venture and debt financing, and built strategies for field operations and market expansions across the globe in the SaaS, Cloud and Talent industries. In his current role as Founder and CEO of Ursus, a leading Staffing and Cloud Services company, he has led triple-digit growth since founding the company providing services to leading companies including Adobe, Tesla, Symantec, Kaiser, Uber, Facebook and eBay among others.
Jon was a three-time All-American and two-time national rugby champion at U.C. Berkeley, where he graduated with a BA in Psychology. He is an excellent presenter and public speaker and for the past twenty years has been a working member of the Screen Actors Guild, appearing in numerous national TV advertisements.
Ursus on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ursus-incorporated/jobs/
Ursus website:
https://ursusinc.com/
To apply to work with Koyuki, you can apply for roles at Headspace here:
https://jobs.lever.co/headspace
And reach out to her directly here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/koyuki-nakamori/
Dave has over 20 years of experience transitioning advanced technology from academic research labs into successful businesses. His experience includes genome research, pharmaceutical development, health insurance, computer vision, sports analytics, speech recognition, transportation logistics, operations research, real time collaboration, robotics, and financial markets.
Dave has been involved in several successful startups as well as consulting and advising both small and large organizations on how to innovate using technology with maximum impact. As part of the Human Genome Project, he was responsible for mapping all known biology onto the newly developed genome sequences. At Bluefin Labs, acquired by Twitter in 2014, he helped the founders recruit a team and go from concept to a launch with the NFL in 13 weeks. At GNS Healthcare, he led the development of their first in class causal machine learning platform.
Dave graduated from MIT with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and currently lives in Austin, TX.
To apply to work with Dave at ClosedLoop.ai:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/closedloop-ai/jobs/
Alex is the Co-founder and CTO at Aircover.ai
Alex is an engineering leader with focus on developing teams that succeed at delivering results that matter. With more than 20 years of experience crafting solutions to diverse problems, he has a passion for creating great software and helping empower developers to achieve success.
Nazrul is a seasoned engineering executive and has been building enterprise products and services for 20 years. Previously, he was Sr. Dir and Head of CloudBees Core where he focused on enterprise version of Jenkins. Before that, he was Sr. Dir of Engineering, Oracle Cloud.
Nazrul graduated from the executive MBA program with high distinction (top 10% of the cohort) at University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Nazrul is named inventor in 47 patents.
Apply Here: bit.ly/3gX7q4w
WeFunder is looking for an engineer who can help them wrangle complex systems and delight users along the way. As a Wefunder engineer, you'll have a tremendous amount of influence, ability to make a huge impact, and be expected to work on a little of everything. There's no red tape. It's a small team, and they move fast.
This posting covers engineers of all levels, including Junior, Senior, and beyond. They prefer Junior Engineers with at least 1 year of professional experience. They expect everyone to contribute to the best of their knowledge and abilities, and those expectations will scale with your seniority level.
They're looking for frontend, full-stack, and backend engineers.
Some examples of projects you could be working on include:
1.) Fun banking software. They've built their own money management tools to handle $70M investments from 85k transactions. Securities regulations add extra fun.
2.) Their own version of Mattermark. They have thousands of companies fundraising on Wefunder, and they'll need algorithms to identify and curate the best ones.
3.) Tools for founders, e.g. built-in analytics. Their business grows whenever they make fundraising easier for founders. Why make founders integrate Google Analytics when they can provide those insights by default?
Tech Stack: Javascript, CSS, React, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, SQL
As Outdoorsy’s business continues to accelerate with a surge in demand for outdoor travel, Ryan Eldridge is poised to help champion the organization’s scaling and growth by executing on new initiatives. The company’s new insurtech business is pioneering a new form of digital insurance designed to enable the commercialization of recreational vehicles for marketplace rental activities.
Passionate technologist with a go-getter attitude!
Sharan has held various Engineering leadership roles at WalmartLabs before co-founding Hwy Haul. Sharan played a pivotal role in building massively scalable solutions for Walmart’s online grocery, last mile delivery, pharmacy and photo verticals. Prior to Walmart, he led digitization of business processes for Wells Fargo Bank, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Wellpoint.
Sharan holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
Hudson is a technology leader with notable success directing a broad range of corporate technology initiatives. He's a hands-on leader with experience in architecture and implementation of all stages of systems and infrastructure.
He's had success in the entire management lifecycle, having originated, trained, inspired, mentored, developed, and maintained multiple highly achieving teams within corporate environments and is an inspirational leader who motivates employees to develop and achieve.
Execution and Vision are not simple tasks. Time and time again, the art of successfully delivering a vision and strategy on time and on budget eludes seasoned executives and frustrates the most patient investors. Over the past 15 years, Michael has learned from success and failure, at startups as well as Fortune 500s. Several of the companies he has worked with have been acquired and have then gone on to higher levels of success. He continues to hone his skills, working on the unique art of successful strategy and execution.
Over the years he's dabbled with many technologies. From cloud to mobile to autonomous vehicles in Ruby or Java or .NET. He's learned that, whether using simple heuristics or machine learning to solve a problem, it’s always better to ask questions and be curious, rather than have all the answers. Working in small batches, using lean methodologies and following actionable data will support good product decisions that generate meaningful change and affect the bottom line.
Today he heads the tech team at Veyo. He brings them his knowledge and experience. He's always on the look out for more efficient process, stronger engagement and better moral. Always an entrepreneur at heart dedicated to solving the challenges that stand before Veyo, making the company’s success a part of his own personal growth.
Chuck loves to build. Over the past couple of decades he's co-founded, built, and sold two amazing companies in two very different industries. Along the way, he prides himself on assembling strong teams of ego-less people that engineer secure and scalable products. His teams develop tech to create differentiated products that have done some good in the world.
With MeetWell, he wants to locates the bad meetings on a team's calendar before they waste their time attending them.
MeetWell.app
Brian is the Head of Customer Engineering at Google Cloud with experience spanning martech / adtech, SaaS and enterprise software development. He has extensive experience with high volume low latency solutions, mobile and large scale data analytics as well as a strong background in real-time systems, data management, data science, privacy and cloud infrastructure.
On today's episode, he walks us through what his team is currently working on and the best ways to prepare for Google's interview process as well as what he's looking for in those joining his team. He walks up through his extensive background as part of several founding teams that started companies as well as a stop at a VC firm and his learnings from that experience. We also dive into some of his currently open positions and why they are the worlds best training for technical candidates that want to some day be entrepreneurs themselves.
Natalie is a dynamic product manager and marketing professional known for using creative strategies to meet and exceed client/consumer expectations and has experience in the execution of projects and purchase orders for Fortune 100 companies.
On todays episode, Kelly chats with Natalie Efstathiou about her previous startup experience as well as some previous experience in the fitness space and how those experiences really came together at Lymber.
They also discuss how the team is preparing for their encore experience with Walla and what she’s looking for on her team as they continue to grow and fitness studios start opening up again as well as some design insights to consider when using forms on your companies website.
Brian is excited to be part of a great founding team at Wilqo, a stealth mode start-up established in September, 2020. As the Head of Engineering, he'll be building out their team while providing strategic vision and the ability to get things done at the meeting point of business and customer needs, product design/architecture, and software development.
Previously, he started in the mortgage technology industry with no idea the company he founded, Optimal Blue, would become the industry-defining solution for pricing mortgages, with over 33% of all the loans done in the United States passing through a platform he led in designing and building.
It certainly didn’t happen overnight, and there were lessons learned every challenging step of the way: from concept to MVP, to market launch & early adoption, growing through the market upheaval of the 2008 financial crisis, and continuing to scale the software and business as we grew from three people to almost three hundred. None of it would have been possible without the support and friendship of his great team, and when he left in 2016 following a sale of the business, he wanted to find a niche where he could apply everything he had learned in skills and experience, and pay forward the good fortune, support, and camaraderie he had in his career (so far) to help other people realize their dreams.
He also founded Indigo Business Partners on that vision: a boutique consulting firm that teams with growth-stage companies to scope and develop new products, successfully scale their technology, and improve the capacity of their development teams. His projects, spanning several industries and both B2B and B2C segments, have been personally and professionally rewarding, and he's looking forward to channeling that experience into launching Wilqo.
Outside his daily work, he is a volunteer on the board of Housing Navigator Massachusetts, a social impact non-profit venture dedicated to deploying best-in-class technology to help address the challenge of finding people affordable housing in the Commonwealth.
Doug's short run as CEO of a wellness app start-up, Lymber, ended in an acquisition by MINDBODY in early 2017. Post acquisition, as SVP of Consumer Products at MINDBODY, he was charged with building out the consumer ecosystem.
For more than 17 years, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Digitaria (now Mirum), a digital marketing and technology agency he co-founded in 1997. As President, he directed Digitaria's strategy, technology, and creative teams, as well as managed the day-to-day operations and finances of the company. His perspective and strategic thinking regarding the development of marketing and technology initiatives were critical in Digitaria’s success. He managed the company’s 2010 acquisition by communications giant WPP and since then have led Digitaria to over 230% growth. Digitaria currently employs more than 250 people.
I opened and acquired offices in Minneapolis and Salt Lake City, successfully integrating them both operationally and culturally with the San Diego headquarters.
As a co-founder, he had the opportunity to fill and gain expertise in many roles, including operations, analytics, creative, technology, project management, strategy, sales, legal, marketing, and finance. He believes the wide exposure enabled him to understand the business and the work from all points of view, including that of the client.
In addition, as a capital partner for Seed San Diego, he pledges his time (and money) towards building a better start-up community for San Diego. He's an active Angel investor with a stake in more than 30 start-ups. He advises seed-stage companies, which included mentoring at the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator by Techstar as well as UCSD programs.
Drew Martin is a CIO / CTO with proven results in Fortune 500, high-growth start-up, board and consulting roles. He has been Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Jack in the Box since November 2019. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Company since November 2016. He was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Lytx Inc. (formerly DriveCam) from October 2011 to December 2014. He previously held IT leadership positions with Sony Electronics and PepsiCo, and from January 2015 until November 2016, was owner and a principal in Silicon Beach Advisors, a technology strategy consulting firm.
Jack in the Box has always been the place for those who live outside the box. Where you can try new things and order what you want when you want it. Now, let’s get to the facts! Did you know Jack in the Box was founded on February 21, 1951, by a businessman named Robert O. Peterson in San Diego, California? Yeah, you probably did. Did you know Jack in the Box pioneered a number of firsts in the quick-serve industry, including menu items that are now staples on most fast-food menu boards, like the breakfast sandwich and portable salads. Sure. Did you know Jack in the Box has over 2000 locations? Everyone knows that.
Matt has experience building teams, products and solutions. He has a proven ability to lead, mentor and retain top technical talent and align teams with corporate direction as well as the ability to deliver scalable, high-performing systems with quality. He's collaborated with product managers and operations to define requirements and features of award-winning technologies. He also has experience in overseeing and effecting the development of a multi-national, multi-disciplined engineering team.
Verimatrix (Euronext Paris: VMX) helps power the modern connected world with security made for people. They protect digital content, applications, and devices with intuitive, people-centered and frictionless security. Leading brands turn to Verimatrix to secure everything from premium movies and live streaming sports, to sensitive financial and healthcare data, to mission-critical mobile applications. They enable the trusted connections our customers depend on to deliver compelling content and experiences to millions of consumers around the world. Verimatrix helps partners to get to market faster, scale easily, protect valuable revenue streams, and win new business.
Brian Young is the vice president of consumer technologies at Penguin Random House. He’s a 20-year veteran of the software industry, with startup and enterprise tech leadership experience across a range of businesses.
Penguin Random House is the world’s premier trade book publisher. Consisting of over 300 editorially independent imprints, Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors. Their mission is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to create stories that engage, entertain, and inspire, and to connect them with readers everywhere.
Jim is a technology leader with over 20 years of success delivering high quality technology solutions, systems and products for enterprise business, ecommerce, and commercial software industries.
He is a strategic and tactical leader guiding engineering and business alignment, software engineering practice management, engineering process continuous improvement, operational and staffing efficiency and high quality service delivery for technology product and services.
He has experience leading all aspects of mobile, ecommerce web, SaaS, product development, enterprise application, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics solutions delivery, including innovation, requirements definition, architecture, development, integration, testing, documentation, training and support.
He has a proven track record of acclaimed contributions to world-class corporations such as Mitek Systems, Peter Norton Group/Symantec, MGM Mirage Resorts, Progressive Gaming International and Wynn | Encore Las Vegas.
ReverseVision was founded in 2007, it's the leading Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) and private reverse mortgage lending platform, supporting more reverse mortgage transactions than all other systems combined. Their comprehensive product suite flexes to lenders’ unique business and operational models, connecting all lending participants across the entire reverse mortgage lifecycle to meet borrowers where they are in life.
Luke brings more than 20 years of software-as-a-service experience. He is focused on redefining how business applications are built and delivered. Luke holds multiple U.S. patents in SaaS delivery and has helped push the limits of browser technology using AJAX . He is a passionate evangelist for excellence in technology and user experience and has previous experience with NetSuite, LinkedIn and his most recent role as VP of Engineering of Docusign before joining the team at Mosaic.
Mosaic is the first Strategic Finance Platform integrating data from key business systems (Billing, ERP, CRM, HRIS) into a single source of truth that can act as the compass for business leaders. Mosaic enables companies of all sizes to strategically run their business. Through a rapidly deployable software platform, Mosaic consolidates data and empowers teams with insights that help them make better decisions. Mosaic’s software is currently deployed by some of the fastest-growing companies, helping them align, collaborate and plan for the future. Mosaic was founded in April of 2019 by Bijan Moallemi, Joseph Garafalo and Brian Campbell. For more information, please visit www.mosaic.tech.
About us page: https://www.mosaic.tech/about-us
To apply to any available positions, reach out to Kelly Feest:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-feest-4691152a/
Steven is a pragmatic and hands-on technology leader experienced in building scalable SaaS products. Co-founded OrderDynamics (now Tecsys), scaled globally and saw the company through two acquisitions. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer, Restaurant Solutions Group at ParTech Inc. (NYSE:PAR). Advisor to a number of early stage startups.
PAR is a leading global provider of software, systems, and service solutions to the restaurant and retail industries. Today, with 40 years of experience and point of sale systems in nearly 100,000 restaurants and more than 110 countries, PAR is redefining the point of sale through cloud software and bringing technological innovation to all corners of the enterprise. PAR’s Government Business is a leader in providing computer-based system design, engineering and technical services to the Department of Defense and various federal agencies.
Today’s episode is brought to you by Proven Recruiting. As an agency, Proven has helped thousands of technology professionals find new opportunities at exciting companies across the United States. They focus on the quality over quantity approach in terms of building lasting relationships with both their candidates and clients. Today we are joined by Proven Recruiting’s Managing Partner Kelly Feest. Kelly is here to share some valuable insights into the job market, hiring process, and interview tips.
Get in touch with Kelly:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-feest-4691152a/
View all openings of Proven's clients:
https://provenrecruiting.com/jobs/
Daniel has 15+ years building SaaS companies and leading world-class engineering teams. You can tell he has experience in the trenches by all the great stories he shares in todays episode. Yet, he still enjoys getting into the trenches with his team to deliver for customers!
Drata is the world’s most advanced security and compliance automation platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Drata helps companies streamline their SOC 2 compliance through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in lower costs and time spent preparing for annual audits. The company is backed by Cowboy Ventures, Leaders Fund, SV Angel, and many key industry leaders. Drata is based in San Diego, CA.
To join the team, apply here:
https://drata.com/careers
Kit has over 10 years of experience leveraging technology to shape the future of food and agriculture. Kit joins FarmTogether after six years at the Climate Corporation, where he helped build the world's leading AgTech platform, most recently as Director of Product, New Features. He has also worked at the CapLog Group, Grupo Bimbo and Harvard's Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Kit holds a MBA with a focus on Agribusiness from the Fletcher School at Tufts and a BA in Economics and International Studies at Middlebury College. He lives in SF with his wife and two children.
FarmTogethers team and partners are cross-industry professionals with over 70 years of experience across farmland investing, agriculture and real estate in the US and globally. Firmly believing that farmland is a safe, stable and attractive long-term investment for everyone, their mission is to radically democratize farmland investing.
They meticulously review all investment opportunities and only pursue the properties they find attractive. They then partner with top quality local farmland operators to manage the land.
To join their team and mission:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/farmtogether/jobs/
To watch this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYo5MYu64Y4
Jon is the Founder and Principal of Stern Security, a cyber security company headquartered in Raleigh, NC. - "Get paid to be an ethical hacker"
Author of the Cisco Press course titled “Security Penetration Testing (The Art of Hacking) LiveLessons”. He holds many security certifications including: GIAC Penetration Tester, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Certified Ethical Hacker. Featured Cyber Security Expert on ABC News, WRAL News, ISSA Journal, PenTest Magazine, North Carolina Dental Gazette, and Business North Carolina Magazine.
They are currently hiring for a Mid-Senior Applications Engineer:
sternsecurity.com/careers/
For the Top 10 Web App Security Risks:
https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
Mike is an Entrepreneur in Residence at UC San Diego, the host of the SnackWalls podcast, and Chief Apprenticeship Officer at San Diego Code School.
He's been writing software for the past 32 years. The first half of that time he did it as a hobby. Now he serve others and helps them shorten the journey to becoming Software Engineers.
He's passionate about helping underrepresented people break into tech and helping companies build high-performance engineering teams out of often-overlooked talent.
He serves as the second President of the San Diego JavaScript Community (https://sandiegojs.org). A wonderful group of folks that enjoy life long learning, networking, and nerding out about JavaScript.
He sits on a few boards of organizations that are making an impact in #dei and is happy to help anyone he can build a career in technology.
He's humbled to have helped so many people get better through my online training, coaching programs, and mentorship.
Having launched more than 100 student careers and have grads working at IBM/RedHat, Apple, WalmartLabs, Sony, AWS, Facebook, Deloitte, Trust&Will and many more amazing tech companies, he's been making a difference in so many lives.
His clients span from small to mid size businesses, all the way to Fortune 500 Companies and government agencies. Regardless of where your team is today, he can help them grow and get better at writing quality software.
San Diego Code School is bringing diverse talent into their tech apprenticeship program, working alongside experienced developers on real projects for real companies. Every project is overseen for quality and function, allowing companies to leverage an expanded workforce without risk.
SAN DIEGO CODE SCHOOL IS MAKING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBLE, EQUITABLE, AND SUCCESSFUL.
On today's episode, we review the product, tech, mission, interview process and culture of aware3.com with their Director of Engineering, Scott Connerly.
Scott is hiring a Front-End Engineering Manager, a Back-End Engineering Manager AND a Senior Javascript Developer.
To get in touch with Scott:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottconnerly/
To see all aware3.com's open positions apply here:
https://aware3.com/careers/
Aware3.com's Story:
In 2013, we saw an opportunity to use our gifts to strengthen church communities. To make participation easier. To extend engagement beyond Sunday. We merged our big tech experience and our deep love for community to build tech that activates real-world relationships.
From day one, we have created ways to help churches engage anytime, anywhere. Over the years, we have innovated and combined our tech, transforming it into Together+ as the platform is known today. Digital + physical, member + leader, engagement + insights… every day, we seek to facilitate togetherness in some way.
Aware3.com's Mission:
As we look to the future, we see church communities that are stronger than ever. Whether through a digital or physical experience, we believe engagement is the core of a thriving community. That means activating church members, empowering leaders, and delivering a best-in-class engagement experience.
Our first Emmy award winning tech leader joins the podcast today!
They are hiring remote software engineers, product owners AND product managers!
Steve Davi is a leading software engineering executive with more than 30 years experience developing multiscreen experiences, advertising and next generation products. Prior to joining Synacor, he was CTO at SeaChange International, responsible for the overall software technology architecture. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Banyan Systems, Inc. and Data General. He holds a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Computer Science and currently sits on the WPI Arts and Sciences Advisory Board to help shape the future direction of WPI's Engineering department.
Founded in 1998, Synacor is the trusted technology development, multiplatform services and revenue partner for video, internet and communications providers, device manufacturers, and enterprises. They deliver modern, multiscreen experiences and advertising to their consumers that require scale, actionable data and sophisticated implementation.
Synacor is known for managed portals, advertising solutions, email and collaboration platforms, and cloud-based identity management. Their mission is to enable their customers to better engage with their consumers. They serve video, internet, and communications providers, device manufacturers, governments, and enterprises. Their customers use their technology platforms and services to scale their businesses and extend their consumer relationships.
They are headquartered in Buffalo, with offices in Boston, Dallas, London, Ottawa, Pune, Singapore, and Tokyo.
To reach out to Steve directly:
sdavi@synacor.com
Today's guest is Matt Koskela, who is the CTO and Co-Founder of HackEDU.com. Before starting HackEDU, Matt was the first employee and VP, Product at AirMap.
Previously, Matt was the Co-Founder and CTO at Giant Media, which was acquired by Adknowledge in March 2014. Giant Media built the largest native video ad network in the United States (measured by ComScore) and worked with most of the biggest ad agencies and brands in the world.
Matt is also the creator of the Drone Hackers Toolkit, which is an open pentesting framework, written in Python, for detecting and exploiting drones.
To work with Matt and the team at HackEDU, you can reach out to him at Matt@HackEDU.com or visit their careers page at: hackedu.com/careers
To sign up as a beta user for Golden Squirrel's MVP:
http://bit.ly/3ayoqMY
Fabian is the Head of Engineering at Airkit and on todays episode we discuss what it was like working at larger companies such as Yahoo and SalesForce. In addition to that, what it was like working for startups that moved extremely fast and were acquired within a short period of time.
Airkit is growing quickly and Fabian is no stranger to building cool products in a high growth environment!
He is currently hiring for Front End, Back End and Dev Ops and you can apply or connect with Fabian at:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabianfrank87/
- Fabian@airkit.com
- airkit.com/careers
Today we get the chance to speak with Matt Bemis, CTO at Kaden Health. They are currently hiring a Senior Software Engineer and their tech stack is React, Laravel and PHP. They are doing some incredible things in their space to keep an eye on this company!
Matt’s ultimate goal is to remove the barriers surrounding mental health therapy through technology. He hopes to prove technology’s role in a field that seems to be 20 years behind the curve. He’s spent over 18 years creating consumer-focused products, document storage and ERP systems. He has extensive leadership experience in maintaining and building large scale technical teams.
To apply:
Matt's Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbemis/
Patty MacRae, HR Consultant at Kaden Health: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pattymacrae/
KadenHealth.com
To reach out to the Host with any questions/comments:
Jeff Winkler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-winkler/
Ryan Jones has a tremendous amount of experience working as a Technical Recruiter. He's previously worked at Google and more recently has joined forces with Ayla Networks, a company on Inc 5000's list of fastest growing companies.
Ayla Networks has grown over 900%+ each year over the past three years due to their unique ability to solve tough technical challenges for clients as well as riding the overall wave that is happening in the IoT space.
Ryan walks us through what they are currently looking for in software engineering candidates as well as sharing some of his experiences in the technical recruiting space.
To connect with Ryan, you can add him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-jones-698ba1/
To apply with Ayla Networks, you can find their open job listings here:
https://www.aylanetworks.com/jobvite
Javier D. Caruso, Engineering Manager/Founder at Webstarted was our guest this week and talks us through how he works with startups to help them with the transition to distributed engineering teams and shares his passion for helping junior engineers level up!
Webstarted helps startups put together their own distributed team of professionals with the attitude and the talent to be productive and efficient. They ensure that all members of your remote team will have the best environment, the discipline, the tools and the enthusiasm to be efficient and meet goals consistently!
To learn more, you can visit their website here: https://webstarted.com/careers
Thor Clark is our guest today and he is the CTO at Well Health. He has broad experience building and leading engineering and product teams in public and private companies. Multiple successful exits as technical co-founder and early employee.
You can sense his experience in working with and developing technical talent as a long time CTO. He partners Junior devs with Senior devs, conducts lunch and learns to ensure everyone is on the same page when dealing with complex systems and solutions and allows his devs to move from team to team to cross train on other technologies.
If you can extract some of his knowledge for picking winners in the tech space as well, you'll be well on your way to a successful career.
To apply to work with Thor and the team at Well Health:
https://wellapp.com/careers/#open-positions
On this episode, we spoke with Hersh Tapadia, the CEO and Co-Founder at Allstacks.
They are an outcome-driven software intelligence & predictive forecasting tool thataligns Engineering, Product & PMO teams via a risk management and predictive analytics suite.
We discuss:
-How he got into the analytics space
-His unique approach to starting a company by consulting
-How companies can use their product to go from "opinions" to "hard facts" to assist with high level decision making and planning
-Insight into how Covid is effecting engineering teams and how managers can use their product as a coaching tool
-Allstacks growth and hiring plan into 2021 and the current structure of their dev team
-Allstacks culture of open ended exploration vs checklists and requirements
They are currently hiring for a BackEnd Developer and their stack is Django, Python and AWS.
To apply to Allstacks: https://www.allstacks.com/careers
Todays episode we go down under to Western Australia as we get the chance to chat with Jesse Emia, the CEO of KeepSpace (https://www.keepspace.com.au).
We dive into the technical problems they are solving at the moment, as well as discuss the amazing and unique culture he has built intentionally at KeepSpace and they are just getting started!
He is looking for someone who is familiar with React and Ruby on Rails and you can hear what you'll be working on within this episode!
To apply to this position: https://bit.ly/38rBu5M
On todays episode, we chat with Markus Häikiö, the CTO at CubiCasa. They are looking for both Front End and Back End Senior Engineers that want to work on cutting edge technologies and solve problems that haven't yet been solved. Their team is currently distributed across the globe so it is a remote position as well!
The things that stuck out to me the most were how much personal and professional growth a candidate will undergo by joining his team and you can hear and see it in his own personal journey with CubiCasa over the last five years.
To apply to and connect with Markus, head to Cubi.Casa/careers
CubiCasas values:
We work in different locations globally, we appreciate the fact that you do not need to be at the office if you feel like spending your time in some other great place on earth. This freedom comes with responsibility and trust. We need to get things done and for sure there are times that one just needs to spend close to other colleagues.
We appreciate everyone’s work efforts. It does not matter what role you are playing, you are needed in this race. In this race it is a competition what makes us tick so we need to try to be better, if not everyday but overall.
Everyone has only one life to spend so what we do on a daily basis needs to be fulfilling someway; we mean, it is your life after all. We are not the ones to say what is meaningful to each individual, just that it is important to have that something.
Last, wear sunscreen.
Today, we got the chance to speak with Beverly Kahn who has 40+ years of experience in the technical hiring space and has worked with startups all the way up to Fortune 500 companies to assist with talent. We discuss how to leverage working with recruiters on your job search and how to navigate finding a quality recruiter. She also dives into her thoughts on the tech industry itself and thoughts on what 2021 will look like in tech.
We also agree on the fact that everyone looking for work should learn how to code due to all the opportunity out in the marketplace right now!
Beverly founded New Dimensions in Technology (NDT) in December of 1979 on the NEW ENGLAND building blocks of strong long-term relationships, trust, integrity and service. NDT is considered a premier boutique high-technology recruiting company with repeat clients who have partnered with NDT since its beginning. Beverly is a "hands on" executive who continues to oversee NDT with a focus on recruiting "top-tier talent" for clients demanding the finest human capital in the global technology world.
Having been educated as a teacher, Beverly excels in advising both entry level and senior executives with their career objectives.She is a sought out presenter and mentors students at several leading colleges and universities, including: MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Boston University and Brandeis University.
Beverly is the consummate networker.She is involved with several professional organizations: Co-founder of the very first Women's Networking Business Group North of Boston in 1981; a former member of the Women's Presidents Organization and a former member of The Commonwealth Institute; trusted supporter of the MIT ENTERPRISE FORUM and the Mass Hi-Tech Leadership Council and many MEETUP groups.
Beverly has been very fortunate to have traveled around the GLOBE and continues to do so as she seeks out cities and countries from which her business friends have originated.
This is a remote opportunity for the right candidate as you'll hear from today's episode!
Thanks again to Mitchel for sharing this opportunity, to apply to this position, go to: AnswerRocket.com/join-us
In addition to an engineering culture and fast growing company they offer:
- Competitive salary with top-notch health, dental and vision coverage
- 401K, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Generous PTO plus standard national holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Weekly catered lunches
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Commuter perks and an office with MARTA access
- Complimentary onsite gym
- Casual dress (always)
- Team outings and company events to build community
- Self-funded, stable startup with an approachable leadership team
- Our People (or “Rocketeers” as we say) are the best part about working at AnswerRocket!
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