Developer On Fire

Guest: Aimee Knight @aimee_knight Aimee Knight talks with Dave Rael about perspectives, software, learning, planning, taking care of yourself, and achievement Aimee Knight is a Software Architect and currently lives in Nashville TN. As a former professional figure skater, she has a tremendous amount of energy and grit. Outside of work, she's a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast and an international keynote speaker. Currently, she specializes in JS, React, and CSS, however, she's worked extensively in Angular, Node, and Ruby on Rails as well. Her past involvement includes working at npm, Inc., being a weekly panelist on the Angular Air podcast, a co-organizer for CharmCityJS, and mentor for Baltimore NodeSchool and Rails Bridge. Chapters: 0

Guest: Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando Alberto Brandolini talks with Dave Rael about EventStorming, experimentation, inspiration, visualization, design, and helping teams Alberto Brandolini can model every business domain, given enough space, a paper roll and an unlimited source of colored sticky notes (with a larger stock of orange ones). His contributions to the community include EventStorming, Model Storming and, more notably, the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle. Alberto Brandolini is an IT Professional that gets bored doing things in the same old way. This led him into unexplored areas of Domain-Driven Design, Lean and Agile Software Development, learning and change management, where he likes to bring apparent chaotic fuzziness and a comic-like visual touch. An active consultant in software product devel

Guest: Reem Altamimi @ Reem Altamimi talks with Dave Rael about leading teams, culture, choices, opportunity, and learning human skills Reem Altamimi is a Software Developer Lead with the Department of Transportation, State of Tennessee. Since she started working for TDOT in 2015, she has been enjoying adopting agile methodologies in software development and in life in general. She loves writing code as it requires logical thinking, creativity and solving problems. Her favorite thing about writing code is finding bugs and fixing them. She always looks for perfection in her code as well as life which can be challenging sometimes. Reem is always been passionate about learning new skills whether they are technical or human. She is a strong believer in helping other people learn and achieve their goals.

Guest: Luca Ferrari @ Luca Ferrari talks with Dave Rael about PostgreSQL, learning, writing, archery, language, and opportunity Luca is a Computer Science passionate since the Commodore 64 era, and today holds a Master Degree (with honor) and a PhD from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He lives in Italy with his beautiful wife Emanuela, their great son Diego, Sofia and Olivia (two female cats) and the last arrived Franzina (a female small-size dog). He has written several research papers, technical articles and book chapters, as well as a book about PostgreSQL titled "PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming". He worked as a lecturer for University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, as well as a local high school. In 2011 he was titled Adjunct Professor by University of Nipissing. An avid Unix user, he

Guest: Nicholas Chase @nickchase Nick Chase talks with Dave Rael about reading, writing, learning, machine learning, tackling huge tasks, and sharing knowledge Nick Chase is a developer, author, and professional Explainer-of-Things. He is the author of Machine Learning for Mere Mortals, as well as other technical books and a few hundred tutorials. He is also Head of Technical Content for the cloud computing company Mirantis, and has participated in multiple open source projects, including Kubernetes and OpenStack. A former technical and pop culture journalist and publisher, he and his wife, who is also his partner, work out of a chicken, goat, and koi farm in the wilds of Ohio. Chapters: 1:17 - Dave introduces the show and Nicholas Chase3:51 - Nick's position at Mirantis7:34 - Nick's relation

Guest: Samantha Campbell @MsSammieRose Samantha Campbell talks with Dave Rael about introversion, organizing communities, rewards of software, remote work, startups, and working your way Samantha is a Frontend Developer for Bungalow and based out of a Terminal campus in Ontario - a booming tech hub without the price tag of Silicon Valley, or a forced removal from her home country. Terminal creates remote teams and vibrant communities for software engineers who want to work for a startup without having to move from their hometown to Silicon Valley. They’re partnering with growing startups like Bungalow, which creates move-in ready homes for young professionals in need of roommates, who need help hiring premier talent fast. After Samantha worked for large companies like RIM, which had 16k employees, and D

Guest: Taylor Perkins @ Taylor Perkins talks with Dave Rael about data science, teaching, mentoring, learning, bold action, self-knowledge, and growth Taylor Perkins is a developer in the Greater Nashville area. He is currently employed as a Machine Learning Engineer at The General Insurance where he helps in the packaging of data science models. Additionally, he serves part time as a Junior Instructor at Nashville Software School for the current Data Analytics Bootcamp. When Taylor is not coding, he is playing music, discovering new ways to make cocktails, and enjoying time with his newly-wed wife. Chapters: 0:18 - Dave introduces the show and Taylor Perkins2:12 - Taylor's interest in machine learning4:28 - How Taylor got started in software and comparing building instruments to building sof

Guest: Gonçalo Silva @goncalossilva Gonçalo Silva talks with Dave Rael about mobile and web development, sunk costs, leading an organization, standardization, and remote work Gonçalo Silva is obsessed with building the future he wants to work in, where location is irrelevant to being part of a highly productive team. That’s why he joined Doist almost a decade ago, and it’s why he remains there today as CTO, building tools like Todoist and Twist that help almost 20 million people combined worldwide be more productive and live a more fulfilling life. The Porto-based Gonçalo started doing freelance work for Doist when the company only had 3 employees. Fast forward eight years, and he has risen the ranks from Android developer to software engineer to CTO, all while working remotely for the same bootstrapped

Guest: Carl Perry @yates Carl Perry talks with Dave Rael about family, customers, organizational structure, balance, and delivering Carl Perry is the head of Square's developer platform. He is an ex-Amazon and Microsoft technology veteran who has been overseeing the building and expansion of the developer platform since he joined Square in late 2015. Chapters: 0:15 - Dave introduces the show and Carl Perry2:52 - Carl and Square and the focus on customer experience4:26 - The Square Developer Platform9:04 - How Carl got started involved in software, Microsoft, Amazon, and Square14:52 - Carl on balance and presence18:13 - Carl's experience at Square and the interactions of engineering, product, and customers25:37 - Helping developers connect with customers30:39 - Carl's story of failure - treati

Guest: Justin Hoover @baselogik Justin Hoover talks with Dave Rael about philanthropy, readable code, leadership, interviews, and teams Justin Hoover has been in the business of IT for almost 19 years. During that time, he's worked mostly in startups delivering services that are invisible to the end user unless something breaks or performs slowly. His works has been used by millions of people internationally while he remains happily anonymous. Justin's career has been a fluid journey from PC support into operations then data warehousing and eventually developing high-availability, high-volume APIs. Though his love of optmization tends to keep him behind the UI, he's written his share of LOB applications. Justin is best known by his peers for his problem solving abilities, natural leadership, calmness,

Guest: Elliot Simon @ Elliot Simon talks with Dave Rael about asking for help, working with robotics, the appeal of software, and interacting with many types of subject matter experts Elliot Simon is a principal software engineer at Veo Robotics working on embedded systems and robot interfaces. Prior to joining Veo, he worked on embedded RTOS for applications in automotive and defense at Green Hills Software followed by an embedded application at Sonos. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where he was involved in IEEE. In addition to developing embedded software, he is an Automotive SPICE Certified Provisional Assessor. Chapters: 0:15 - Dave introduces the show and Elliot Simon1:47 - How Elliot got started in technology, softwar

Guest: Juval Löwy @juvallowy Juval Löwy talks with Dave Rael about the many meanings of architecture, the skills required of an architect, good and valid designs, use cases, and doing the right thing Juval Löwy is the founder of IDesign and a master software architect specializing in system and project design. Juval has mentored hundreds of architects across the globe, sharing his insights, techniques, and breakthroughs, in architecture, project design, development process, and technology. Juval participated in the Microsoft internal strategic design reviews for C#, WCF and related technologies. Juval is a frequent speaker at the major international software development conferences. Juval published several bestsellers, and his next book is Righting Software (Addison-Wesley, 2019). Juval published numerou

Guest: Ole Dallerup @oledallerup Ole Dallerup talks with Dave Rael about money and value, tech cultures, balance, and scale Today Ole is the CTO and cofounder of Dreamdata.io. A product which he discovered during his time leading technology at Trustpilot, one of the world's biggest review sites. At Trustpilot he grew the technology team from 3 to more than 100 full-time tech-people across 2 locations. Building a techstack that handled massive loads such as 2 billion monthly widget impressions and more than 50 billion monthly API calls, while growing the annual revenue to $50M. Having enabled product growth to billions of monthly interactions he is an experienced technology leader born in the cloud and ready to scale. Formerly Ole was also a founding technology advisory board member at Apigee (acquire

Guest: Geoff Mazeroff @geoffmazeroff Geoff Mazeroff talks with Dave Rael about self awareness, leadership, people, process, and being yourself Geoff Mazeroff is a team leader and software developer with a focus on culture and mentorship. His experience with developing and maintaining complex software applications has led to improved patient outcomes and enhanced coordination of our nation’s military assets. Geoff currently supervises five other developers at DPRA Inc., helping them to learn, grow, and work toward their career goals. Their current software project helps military planners answer the important transportation feasibility question, “Can we get what we need to where we need it?” Outside of software development, Geoff helped the company achieve and maintain CMMI-DEV Maturity Level 3 and ISO 90

Guest: William Springer @wmspringer Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-438-william-springer-rewards-of-teaching

Guest: Andy Hunt @PragmaticAndy Dave Thomas @pragdave Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-437-andy-hunt-and-dave-thomas-the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition

Guest: Amitai Schleier @schmonz Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-436-amitai-schleier-safe-for-programmers-and-non-programmers

Guest: Eric Brechner @ericbrechner Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-435-eric-brechner-responding-honorably

Guest: Enrique López Mañas @eenriquelopez Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-434-enrique-lopez-manas-tribe-of-programming-titans

Guest: Elissa Shevinsky @ElissaBeth Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-433-elissa-shevinsky-continuous-growth