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Joining us this week is Doug Beardsley, Director of Engineering at Kadena (https://kadena.io/).

Upcoming Events: The founders of Kadena Will Martino and Stuart Popejoy, along with our Head of Growth, Ben Jessel, will be speaking at World Blockchain Forum NYC on September 27-28, 2019.

Doug Beardsley, Director of Engineering, Kadena

Doug is Kadena's Director of Engineering, contributing 15 years of professional software experience to the role. He spent six years working in the defense industry where he built large scale radar tracking and data fusion systems from the ground up. Doug has been writing Haskell professionally since 2010, with projects in finance, data visualization, and analytics covering both frontend and backend web development.

He is the author of the Snap web framework and maintains a number of open source Haskell libraries. Doug is also active in the Haskell and functional programming communities as a co-organizer of the New York Haskell Meetup and the Compose Conference.

About Kadena

Kadena is creating a hybrid public and permissioned blockchain with a safe and easy-to-use smart contract language. Kadena is fast, secure and simple—and we’re in use today by Fortune 500 clients in finance, healthcare and insurance. Our partners include USCF, a $3 billion dollar ETP fund that leads in alternative investments. Chainweb, Kadena's scalable Proof of Work blockchain, is launching at the end of 2019.

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector discuss the recent trend of having "the best" team and a recent twitter discussion on 10x engineers.

Joining the podcast this week is Adam Kranitz from CloudCheckr.

Adam is a New York-based marketing communications director focused on enterprise SaaS and media technology brands. As head of social media marketing at one of the largest media technology companies in the world, Avid Technology, he built the global storytelling platform AvidBlogs.com and helped to launch the film, video, audio, and music creation software used by the biggest names in entertainment. Prior to that, Adam co-founded BrandingStrategyInsider.com, the global thought leader in brand strategy and brand education. Today, Adam runs communications at CloudCheckr—the most comprehensive Cloud Management Platform (CMP) for finance, security, and compliance teams—leading brand strategy, events marketing, creative services, analyst relations, public relations, community, and social media programs.

Joining us today is Mike D Kail with fantastic thoughts on Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, and Edge.

Mike D Kail- CTO, Everest.Org and Former CIO, Yahoo and VP, Netflix

Currently Everest’s CTO, responsible for the technical implementation of the scalable identity and payment solution platform. Recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter”, Mike was the former CIO/SVP of Infrastructure of Yahoo!. He also served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix.

Joining us this week is Matt Caufield, Co-Founder and CEO Oort.io.

Matt is currently co-founder & CEO at Oort, an early-stage startup focused on the intersection of Cybersecurity and Edge Computing. Previously he led the award-winning Boston Center of Excellence team at Cisco, taking new product ideas from concept to production through a customer co-development pipeline. He studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Cornell University with a concentration in distributed systems and networking.

Ravikanth Chaganti offers his thoughts on Infrastructure as a Service and how data centers are operated.

Joining us this week is Sam Nagar, Co-Founder and CEO Pixeom. He provides insight into the history of his company and how they are already deployed in sizable production environments.

About Pixeom

Pixeom is a five year-old company that’s changing the way enterprise manages cloud resources. Pixeom is the market leader in this emerging category based on revenue, number of deployments and number of experts within the company. Pixeom’s enterprise software platform delivers all the power of the cloud with the speed of on-premise edge computing.

Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Director Technical Marketing at Turbonomic. He joins a discussion talking about Rob Hirschfeld’s recent post on The New Stack, The Optimal Kubernetes Cluster Size? Let’s Look at the Data (https://thenewstack.io/the-optimal-kubernetes-cluster-size-lets-look-at-the-data/)

Co-Hosts Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen discuss the latest news in the open source industry including the impact of AWS on open source databases and the recent news around MapR and other big data vendors.

Joining us this week is Avi Press, Software Engineer at Fraction and creator of the open source Toodles project. This podcast comes from a recent post by Avi on Medium, “A Failed Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project.” https://medium.com/swlh/a-failed-effort-to-get-paid-for-an-open-source-project-bd7fa4658a1e

About Toodles

Toodles scrapes your entire repository for TODO entries and organizes them so you can manage your project directly from the code. View, filter, sort, and edit your TODO's with an easy to use web application. When you make changes via toodles, the edits will be applied directly the TODO entries in your code. When you're done, commit and push your changes to share them with your team!