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:
[email protected]

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 [email protected] 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/
• [email protected]
• 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