Engineering People Podcast

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Robby Russell is the VP of Engineering at Planet Argon.

Josh Schlanger is the Vice President of DevOps and IT at Demandbase, currently leading the teams that manage all the infrastructure, security and compliance, release management and end user support to help Demandbase achieve and maintain its status as the leader in Account Based Marketing (ABM). With 20 years of experience with public and private cloud, security, compliance, big data, and business applications, he was fortunate enough to have been part of an acquisition by IBM as well as an IPO with ChannelAdvisor.

Alexander Gladshtein is the Director of Software Development at CBORD, which powers access, card, foodservice, housing, nutrition and diet office management systems for healthcare, higher education, and business campuses.

Nathan Stott is the VP of Architecture at Influence Health.

Nathan Mumm is the Chief Technology Officer at BluZEBRA Technologies and the Chief Information Security Officer at Copiers Northwest.

Ted Neward is an industry professional of twenty years' experience. He speaks at conferences all over the world and writes regularly for a variety of publications across the Java, .NET, and other ecosystems. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, dog, four cats, eight laptops, seven tablets, nine phones, and a rather large utility bill.

Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of DataStax products successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years.

Dan Harden is an Engineering Manager at Condé Nast. He and his team work within a family of over 20 iconic brands (such as WIRED, The New Yorker, and Vogue), each with their own unique style. He has a keen interest in shaping the future of journalism, and he is passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them achieve their career goals.

Tal Broner is Vice President of Software Engineering at Egnyte, overseeing product development and innovation. Tal has held a variety of leadership positions in engineering, product management and global operations for large-scale cloud and on-premise enterprise software solutions companies. Prior to Egnyte he served as Vice President of R&D in HP’s Enterprise Software division with responsibility for the IT Service Management products, generating over $500 Million in annual revenue. He was also a key leader at Mercury Interactive, Appilog, Inc and Broadband Studios, Inc., through their acquisitions.

Chris Cortez is Vice President of Engineering for Apex Clearing, the technology platform for the most innovative Fintech and Financial Services firms. In two and a half years, he has tripled the size of his Engineering organization to support the runaway growth of Apex customers and industry segment. In addition to his work in technology leadership, Cortez produced the film No No: A Dockumentary, which premiered in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on all major streaming platforms. LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccortez/  

Virgil Beaston is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Powin Energy and has been with the company since 2011. Beaston has over 10 years of experience in the battery and energy storage industry and is often asked to speak publicly as a subject matter expert. He views business and the rapidly growing storage sector from a unique perspective as he previously was a patent attorney at an intellectual property law firm and then was a co-founder and CTO of a start-up company that made energy storage products prior to joining Powin Energy. In 2008, Beaston moved to Shenzhen China and setup and ran a small factory that designed and produced energy storage products. He continued to live and work in Shenzhen until joining Powin Energy as its Chief Technology Officer. Beaston is an inventor, lawyer, and engineer with impressive academic credentials, and his many experiences over the past 10 years have given him a unique insight into what it takes to commercialize the new clean-tech technologies that are helping to fuel the green economy.   LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virgil-beaston-65703956/  

Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males.   As CTO, Dan is responsible for site partner integration, trouble-shooting, brand development, SEO (search engine optimization), research, and development for all Digital Trends platforms. Along with his business partner and fellow co-founder Ian Bell, the pair launched Digital Trends in 2006 and continued to build and fortify DigitalTrends.com, which currently attracts roughly 25MM visitors per month. More recently, Dan was instrumental in the creation of DT Español to serve Spanish-speaking consumers and The Manual, a men’s lifestyle site dedicated to news and information on men’s grooming, health and wellness, travel, food and fashion.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dangaul/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse.

Raj Gupta is a Silicon Valley executive with over 25yrs of experience in leading product strategy, innovation, and global software development teams at technology startups as well as multinationals like Oracle Corporation. He is currently the CTO and SVP Engineering at Navis Inc., a leader in supply chain and maritime software, where he leads all product and engineering activities. Under his leadership Navis is leading the way for fully autonomous port operations and shipping, and making global trade smarter, safer, and more sustainable for everyone. Prior to Navis, Mr. Gupta was the SVP Engineering at Nice Systems, a leader in CRM and Customer Experience software. At Nice Systems he led the transformation of the company’s On-premise products to SaaS/Cloud applications and significantly increased the global footprint of the Nice Systems. Before Nice Systems, he spent a decade at Oracle Corporation in various executive roles leading product development organizations responsible for $350M to over $2B in annual revenue and driving the development process for Oracle’s next generation Fusion applications. Mr. Gupta has also held executive roles at technology startups in Silicon Valley leading them through high growth, innovation, acquisitions, and successful IPO. Mr. Gupta has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University, has a certificate in Executive Leadership from the graduate school of business at Stanford University, and a Master of Arts degree in Management from Harvard University. LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajguptausa/ Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males. As CTO, Dan is responsible for site partner integration, trouble-shooting, brand development, SEO (search engine optimization), research, and development for all Digital Trends platforms. Along with his business partner and fellow co-founder Ian Bell, the pair launched Digital Trends in 2006 and continued to build and fortify DigitalTrends.com, which currently attracts roughly 25MM visitors per month. More recently, Dan was instrumental in the creation of DT Español to serve Spanish-speaking consumers and The Manual, a men’s lifestyle site dedicated to news and information on men’s grooming, health and wellness, travel, food and fashion. LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dangaul/ Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Raghu Konka is the Vice President of Engineering at iPass Inc. an industry pioneer in global Wi-Fi and Intelligent mobile connectivity platform. Since joining iPass Engineering in 2001, he developed & architected various service components and led different teams. He is now responsible for all aspects of iPass SmartConnect SaaS platform that comprise of iPass SmartClients & SDK, Big Data & Veri-Fi Analytics, Authentication Fabric, Billing & Reporting systems and Location services. Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Rob Reesor is Senior Vice President of Product Development at Planview, Inc., where he is currently responsible for all development and testing of three of Planview’s Work and Resource Management applications. After graduating from the University of Oregon with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science, Rob launched a 30+ year career as a developer, team lead, manager, director and vice president. He left Silicon Valley to move to Austin in 2000 as part of an acquisition of a company he co-founded — leaving behind a body of pioneering work for several venture-backed projects that helped create one of the first AI companies, one of the first Web retailers and the first company to create a commercial information bus. Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Dmitry Fonarev has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise, Application, SaaS and embedded software development, as well as extensive experience with managing multiple on and offshore teams across various product development functions. He is currently SVP of Product Dev at SmartBear Software. Prior to SmartBear, Dmitry was Vice President of Engineering at Dell Software Group which he joined through the vKernel acquisition. At vKernel, he helped drive the company to profitability by innovating, simplifying and establishing a high say/do ratio. Before that, he served as Vice President of Quality Assurance at Intralinks (NYSE:IL;IPO 2011). He led software development at Soapstone and held various leadership roles in software development organizations at Nortel, Bay Networks and Wellfleet. Dmitry has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Boston University. Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Arun Samuga is the Vice President of Platform Engineering at Elemica, a digital supply chain company. Over the last 23 years, he has delivered software solutions for the aviation, retail, finance, utility and process industry verticals in various countries namely India, UAE, Japan, the UK and the USA. At Elemica, he oversaw the development of a patented Business to Business cloud integration platform using world class talent and emerging technologies. He also actively researched applicability of machine learning, block chain technology and B2B Network Interoperability to maximize value in digital supply chain space. Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook    

John Bullard is the Vice President of Engineering at Distil Networks. Based in San Francisco, he leads the edge platform and data engineering team. Before joining Distil John confounded two tech startups, both of which are still active. Prior to entering the startup world John was a member of the Office 365 launch team at Microsoft where he focused on cloud security and scalability.   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Chris McCooey is VP of Engineering for B2C at Purch. He oversees engineering teams delivering web and mobile experiences to Purch’s brands. Purch helps people buy better. Chris’ mission is to build technology that honors the intent of Purch’s users. With over 20 years leading software teams, Chris is passionate about developing engineers, nurturing innovators and creating experiences that delight users. Previously, Chris worked at Cnet and CBS Interactive running search, API and platform teams.   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Robert Stewart is the CTO and Chief Architect at Castlight Health and has been with Castlight since 2011. He led the engineering teams that built Castlight Action, a fully-automated platform for benefits professionals to leverage data and machine learning algorithms to connect employees to the right benefits and programs. Robert previously held senior development and management positions at Voxify, Avaya, and Lucent Bell Labs, and has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Philosophy from Rice University.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakstengel/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Don Thompson is VP of Software Development at Nextech Systems, a leading specialty specific Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software company.  He has worked his entire career at Nextech, starting at a coop position 18 years ago as the company grew from 10 employees to its current size of over 250.  Don received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Dayton in Computer Science. Don currently lives in Tampa, FL. Most of his free time is spent staying active, he can often be found in a rock climbing or ninja warrior gym.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-thompson-99339ab5/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Ben Adida is VP Engineering at Clever, the leading K-12 education platform. His passion is using technology to empower individuals and level the playing field. Ben has extensive experience in identity, payments, voting technology, health IT, security & privacy, and Web architecture. He has developed free software for 20 years and Web software for close to 25 years. He is a Board Member at the non-profit Creative Commons. Previously, Ben was Director of Engineering at Square, Director of Engineering at Mozilla, Research Faculty at Harvard Medical School / Children's Hospital Boston, and research fellow with the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Ben co-founded three bootstrapped startups: ArsDigita (1998), OpenForce (2000), and Webdash (2005). He received his PhD from MIT's Cryptography and Information Security group. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benadida/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-goodwin-6349631/

Nidhi Gupta is Senior Vice President of Technology at Hired, a marketplace that matches tech talent with the world’s most innovative companies. Nidhi leads the company’s global engineering, developer operations and product teams. Nidhi is a skilled engineer and product executive who is passionate about building and growing thriving product and engineering organizations that deliver world-class products at scale. Prior to Hired, Nidhi was Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering at Tophatter and Upwork. Previously, she was instrumental in leading mobiTV and Ning through hyper-growth and expansion.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhihgupta/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Andy is responsible for leading the technology development and innovation efforts for Healthline. Andy bring over 20 years of experience with technical operations, software engineering, and product development for companies across a variety of industries. Prior to joining the Healthline, Andy led engineering for several divisions/acquisitions for the Monster.com team. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Math from UNC - Chapel Hill. His hobbies include volleyball, biking, and enjoying the Marin outdoors with his two boys, Drew and James! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andymarkham/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Christian McCarrick is the VP of Engineering for Auth0 where he manages a globally distributed team. He is dedicated to improving the craft of software engineering leadership. He volunteers his time to mentor through the Everwise and Plato networks and teaches engineering workshops for new engineering managers. He also hosts a popular podcast called SimpleLeadership where he interviews top technology leaders in order to help other managers grow and be successful.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmccarrick Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmccarrick   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Leonid Movsesyan is Vice President of Engineering at Cadre. Before joining Cadre, he was a Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox where he led teams responsible for reliability, efficiency and performance of their services. Leonid has also worked at Yelp as a Senior Reliability Engineer, and at Yandex as Co-Head of Infrastructure, managing teams responsible for common infrastructure components and tools. He received his Master’s in Computer Science from Moscow State Industrial University. LinkedInCadre Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Kevin Skibbe is the VP of Engineering at BetterCloud where he is responsible for the day to day duties of the Development, Test Engineering, and Architecture teams. Kevin's passion is to continually bridge the gap between technology, business, customer, and partner teams.   Before joining BetterCloud, Kevin held several positions as a software engineer and engineering leader. Kevin is a native Georgian and holds both an MS and BS in Computer Science from Columbus State University.    Kevin on LinkedIn  BetterCloud   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Dr. Anurag Maunder is an SVP of Engineering at Kindred AI, an artificial intelligence company that solves human problems with autonomous robots. He started his career with prestigious AT&T Bell Labs. He was the Founder, CTO of Kazeon Systems that was acquired by EMC and the Founder CEO of dLoop that was acquired by Box. In last few years, he established the Advanced Development lab for EMC to focus on Machine learning for automating storage configurations and also created Johnson Controls Innovation Garage that introduced several new AI products in industrial IOT. His current areas of interest are AI, Robotics, Smart Buildings and IoT Security using Blockchains. He believes that AI and Robotics together will fundamentally transform the quality of life and disrupt every single industry. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amaunder/

As head of engineering, Prashant leads Asana’s growing engineering organization towards high velocity, sustainability, and quality. Before joining Asana, Prashant started and led the Bay Area team building Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service. He also led engineering for mobile advertising start-up Vdopia and worked on storage systems at IBM Research. Prashant earned an M.S. in Computer Science from UIUC, and a BTech(Hons) in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ppandey/

Zak Stengel is the SVP of Engineering at The Trade Desk, which is a global technology company that provides a platform for advertisers to reach target audiences across any device in real time. Since 2013, Zak has led The Trade Desk’s Engineering team through massive growth, from a single team of 8 people to a global organization of nearly 200 across 12 offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. In this time, the team has driven a technological expansion to a scaled platform that now services more queries than searches by Google, tweets by Twitter, and snaps by Snapchat – combined.   Zak is most proud of the fact that this has all been achieved while maintaining an agile culture based on trust, connection, and empathy, where every team member works closely across geographic and functional lines to ship product to our clients, every single week. Depending on how you count, Zak has between 15 and 30 years of experience as a professional software developer and technology leader.  He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Religious Studies and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Throughout his career, he has always been the happiest when he is making others better. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakstengel/v Twitter: https://twitter.com/zakstengel

Eric Richard is the SVP of Engineering at HubSpot, where he oversees HubSpot’s global product development teams. Eric brings more than two decades of experience in the tech industry as a founder, CTO, engineering, and business leader. Eric's focus has been on managing and mentoring impactful software development, support, IT, security and operations teams while creating and implementing information security programs, supporting agile culture, and creating empowering environments for engineering talent. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericrrichard/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericrrichard

Mike Herrick is the SVP of Product & Engineering at Urban Airship and is responsible for developing, operating, supporting, and sustaining UrbanAirship’s products. He joined the company in 2010.   Prior to Urban Airship, Mike was the Vice President of Products for Collaborative Software Initiative. In that role, he was responsible for product management, product development, technical support, and hosted operations. Prior to Collaborative Software Initiative, Mike built a broad background in the software business with management and individual contributor roles at Liberty Mutual, C-bridge/eXcelon (now Progress Software), Mentor Graphics, and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).   Mike holds a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Dayton.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeherrick/

Roger Gonzalez is the SVP of Product and Engineering for CreativeLive, where he leveraged his experience in building high-performing teams to transform development of the CreativeLive student experience. His eclectic career spans 27 years and includes everything from web development to AI for underwater robots. Roger has managed orgs with hundreds of developers spread across four continents, but found his passion in managing the chaos at smaller, fast-moving startups like CreativeLive. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rgonzalez/

Dan Neri is Director of UI Engineering at accesso, where he leads the application development of the Passport ticketing product suite. He is an engineering leader who is passionate about building highly productive teams and growing leaders who are both product driven and people focused. At accesso, he has helped scale their eCommerce platform to $1.5b across 20 countries, while cultivating an innovative engineering culture. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielaneri/

Tammy Wang is the VP Data Science at Riviera Partners, where she is building AI solutions to disrupt the traditional recruiting model by matching elite tech executives with industry-leading innovators like Dropbox, Hulu, Doordash, Docker, & Airbnb. With a PhD in computer science, she has 17+ years of experience building & managing data teams that have driven growth at companies such as Zillow & Microsoft. She recently published a research paper in Communications of the ACM & is the author of 14 patents. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammy-wang-6206061/

Peter Troost is responsible for Acquia’s Engineering organization, including platform as a service and software as a service products. Prior to joining Acquia, Peter has been in product leadership roles for 25 years in organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies including The Travelers, Gillette, and Oracle. Most recently Peter served as the CTO for Radius Worldwide responsible for all software as a service products. Peter has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Computer Science from Bucknell University.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-troost-1298a01/

Amy Wiley, Vice President of Engineering Services, Webroot As Vice President of Engineering Services, Amy is part of a global team that ranges from DevOps engineers, escalation engineers, quality assurance (QA) team members, and support engineers to customer retention agents, UX/UI designers, advanced malware removal analysts and threat research experts. In her role, Amy serves as the voice of the customer, working with development, QA, product management and sales and marketing to ensure customer or product problems are resolved and, ultimately, keeping customers cyber safe. She leads a team that works around the clock, every single day, to monitor systems, engage with customers, and ensure that Webroot is providing the best experience and protection in the industry. Amy has more than 17 years of experience working for software development companies in different capacities. Prior to her nearly 16-year tenure at Webroot, she worked as a technical account manager and a staff software engineer at Rally Software and IBM Rational. When she is not in the office, Amy, alongside her husband Mike, can be found on cheering their kids (18-year-old Sammy and 16-year-old Bennett) playing basketball, golf, soccer, and track. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyjwiley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wileyaj

Eric Schrock is the CTO at Delphix, where he drives technology strategy and thought leadership around the future of enterprise data. He previously helped scale the Delphix product and team as VP of Engineering. His passion is for creating things, from woodworking and music to products and organizations. Prior to Delphix, Eric was a founding member of the team at Sun that built the ZFS Storage Appliance product. He started his career as a Solaris kernel hacker after earning a CS degree from Brown. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschrock/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericschrock

Seth is the VP of Engineering at Chef. He is a product-focused engineering leader who believes the essential elements for a high-performing team are shared purpose, clear communication, commitment to learning, and mechanisms for measuring outcomes. Seth began his career melding data analysis, software engineering, and open source project management at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he worked on the Bioconductor project and contributed to R. In 2010, he joined Chef Software, an IT company that helps enterprises increase their velocity through automation of infrastructure, compliance, and applications. At Chef, his roles have spanned software development engineer to VP of Engineering. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethfalcon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sfalcon

Mark has been with ConnectWise, Inc for 14 years and is currently Senior Director of Product Development for the ConnectWise software.  Mark is also chairman of the board of directors for Computer Mentors, a non-profit organization that teaches the fundamentals of programming, entrepreneurism, public speaking, and more to the underserved youth of our community.  He is also on the ISDS Advisory Board for the MUMA College of Business at the University of South Florida.  Since joining ConnectWise, Mark has been a key contributor in the development of the ConnectWise software and has helped to define and improve the software development process.  Mark has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management, both from the University of South Florida. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-laplante-419b59a/

Thomas Price is the Director of Engineering of the Core Engineering division at the Standard where he focuses on the Core Applications and Enterprise Integration product teams. He was also until very recently responsible for the Application Security team at the Standard as well. Thomas started his career as a firmware developer and has slowly moved up the technology stack to desktop applications, mobile software and now enterprise software. He has spent a large portion of his career in regulated industries like medical devices, digital health, and insurance. He has also worked in commercial spaces like auto dealerships and storage servers. Most of his career has been in product development but now he is spending some time in IT driving the technology and platform transformation at the Standard. Thomas also sits on the Technology Leadership Committee at the Technology Association of Oregon as well as the Board and Steering Committee of the PSU/PDX Cooperative Education Program. He participates in one adventurous activity every year, which once included spending a weekend riding rodeo bulls, and this year will involve a Kayak/Camping trip through the San Juan Islands. Thomas holds a BS in Computer Science from Colorado State University and an MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver. He has put his primary focus on improving the culture, processes and development effectiveness of organizations. Beyond that, he strives to engage with the local technology community in ways that bring value back to those he engages with. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasprice

Paul Hepworth is the VP of Engineering for UserTesting and has used Agile and Lean practices to build UserTesting's human insights platform to help businesses make better decisions more quickly.   Paul has been working in the tech industry for the past 20 years in software teams across the bay area. He has worked at large financial institutions and several small to medium startups.   Over the past 13 years, Paul has taken interest in rolling out lean methodologies through continuous delivery across the organizations he has been involved and has been witness to how continuous cultures can attract and retain top talent, deliver high-quality software quickly, and do all of this at a sustainable pace.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phepworth/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeppyHeppy

Mikey Butler is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at New Relic. He's responsible for Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Site Engineering Operations. He brings more than 30 years of experience in the software industry. The first half focused on system coding at Digital Equipment, Bank of America, Data General, Rolm and Sun. The latter half on engineering management for Cisco Systems, Sybase, BEA Systems, Intuit and, most recently, Seagate. And named one of the 50 Most Important African Americans in Technology at the 2009 Soul of Technology Innovation and Equity Symposium. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikey-butler-25602a1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikeybutler  

Katie is a Director of Engineering at Buffer, a globally distributed team with no offices, and O’Reilly author. At Buffer, she leads the engineering team focusing on crafting productive, effective teams, developing career frameworks and engineering management practices and delivering a world-class software product. She previously worked as a software engineer before moving into leadership. Her writing has appeared in The Next Web, Inc Magazine and Fast Company. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleenwomersley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/katie_womers 

Tim Olshansky is the Chief Technology Officer at Aconex, the most widely used online collaboration platform in the world for large capital projects. He joined Aconex in 2015 after the acquisition of a startup he co-founded, Worksite, the first fully cloud-based cost management system in the industry. He now leads the development of Aconex’s entire project collaboration solution, which powers some of the world’s largest projects like Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timols/

Mark Barbir is the SVP Software Engineering at MINDBODY, where he oversees the software development lifecycle, project management, and quality assurance. With over 20 years of experience in both mobile and web, his passion is building great products and teams. Prior to MINDBODY, Mark led product management and software engineering at SenseLabs, which delivered mobile performance brain training to NBA, NFL, Olympic and Red Bull athletes.  His experience also includes supporting a diverse breadth of industries and global brands including household names such as Apple, Hewlett Packard, Philips, Pioneer, Oakley, Quiksilver, Roxy, Disney and many others. A Bay Area native and rabid Golden State Warriors fan, he spends time with his wife and three sons hanging out at local beaches, hiking, and camping. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbarbir/

Wei Wei is the VP of Engineering at FreeWheel. He has been working at FreeWheel since 2007 (Comcast acquired FreeWheel in 2013). Wei played various roles in FreeWheel across Engineering, Client Services, and Business Operations in his 10-year tenure. Currently, he leads a Big Data Engineering team in New York to build a Cloud-based Linear Viewership data platform to help grow Comcast’s advertising business and drive the unification of Linear and Digital advertising. Wei has been an active advocate of new technology such as Big Data and Cloud, and modern engineering practice such as CI/CD and Scaled Agile. Before joining FreeWheel, Wei attended Tsinghua University in Beijing, China for his Bachelor and Master Computer Science degrees. He moved to New York in 2011 during working for FreeWheel. Other interesting facts about Wei: Wei is an avid video gamer and board gamer who plays games on a daily basis. Wei also likes hiking. Half Dome and Grand Canyon Rim2Rim are two of his most memorable hikes. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weiwei9/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/weiwei9

Jim is New Relic's Chief Product Officer, overseeing the teams that design, build, and deliver New Relic's products. He has a passion for high performing teams and loves technology – especially when it's well architected, scalable, and fast. He loves helping New Relic's customers understand how data can be used to operate great digital experiences.   Prior to New Relic, Jim was the Chief Architect for the Wily Technology division of CA, where he was the technical lead for Introscope, an industry-leading web application performance monitoring solution. Prior to that, he was Chief Technology Officer for an internet-based trading system for the wholesale food industry. Jim also spent four years at Apple, Inc. and three years at Connectix Corporation working on virtualization technology. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-gochee-b170911/