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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is a serial entrepreneur and international business development guru Mark Heynen.

Mark Heynen (@markheynen) serves as PayJoy’s Chief (Business Development) Officer. Prior to PayJoy, Mark had an extensive career starting companies in the US and abroad, and striking complex deals in the mobile ecosystem. In 1999, Mark joined the founding team of LibertySurf, France’s first free ISP, and launched operations in the UK and Germany. Shortly thereafter in 2000, Mark co-founded retail analytics company Electrobug Technologies in London, which he eventually sold in 2006. 

He moved back to the US that year to join Google’s early BD team, where he worked on mapping the developing world and launching Android. He was recruited to Facebook in 2010 to launch the company’s emerging market mobile strategy, including a number of complex carrier deals and the largest acquisition Facebook made at the time (Snaptu). Since leaving in 2012, Mark founded Photo Lab (sold to Dropbox) and led business development and operations for commercial drone startup Skycatch.

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is JP Sherman.

JP Sherman (@jpsherman) is the manager for Search & Findability (SEO) for Red Hat. This means he makes content and information more readily findable to users in whatever channel they use to look for it. JP's been in the search industry for more than 15 years and has helped massive companies like Paramount Studios to quirky startups like a search engine for video games improve how customers find them and the content they have. 

Growing up in Sacramento, California, JP has had nearly every job there is... barista, massage therapist, autopsy assistant, US Army Special Operations (Airborne), visual artist & illustrator, archaeological dig team leader, video game dialogue writer & SEO. He is probably the last person in the world to take career development advice from.

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Ross Gilbertson is a long-time IT manager. He worked his way up from the director level to Chief Information Officer and Senior VP of technology.  Along the way, he’s worked across a variety of industries, ranging from banking to eCommerce to coffee and publishing! 

When starting out, Ross recalls "a lot of the jobs were more along the programming bent", but Ross was more of a business guy with an interest in technology. He attributes curiosity as a major part of his successful career. Curiosity not only for learning new skills, but also a curiosity for understanding people.

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Kavita Ganesan is a data scientist with expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, text mining and search. Over the last decade, she's developed AI and data science solutions for companies like GitHub, 3M Health Information Systems and eBay as well as a handful of startups. Kavita also serves as a consultant for several companies.

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Jake Mannix is currently the Data Architect of Search Relevance at Salesforce. In other words, he's an AI Engineer. Jake lives in the intersection of search, recommender-systems, and applied machine learning, with an eye for horizontal scalability and distributed systems. Prior to his current position, Jake was the Lead Data Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Lucidworks.

In college, Jake studied algebraic topology and particle cosmology. He's ABD ("all but dissertation") from the University of Washington before transitioning into technology. 

Some of Jakes previous accomplishments

• Built out LinkedIn’s search engine
• At Twitter, built user/account search system and lead that team before creating the Personalization and Interest Modeling team.
• Apache Mahout committer, PMC Member (and former PMC Chair).

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Mark Settle is a seven-time Chief Information Officer with broad business experience in information services, enterprise software, consumer products, high tech distribution, financial services and oil & gas. He has led IT organizations that support internal business operations, product development and customer-facing service capabilities. Mark is the author of Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management. He currently serves as the CIO of Okta, a San Francisco company offering cloud-based solutions for identity and access management. 

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Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. He is a developer advocate and a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. Kelsey is an expert in Kubernetes and has written a book about it called "Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure" (link in show notes). When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration. Learn how Kelsey went from tech support to dev advocate to keynote speaker!

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Duretti Hirpa is a writer and senior software engineer based in San Francisco, California. She's a ten-year veteran of the technology industry. Duretti has a humanities background and often thinks about the intersection between people and technology. She is a self taught software developer and continually excels at prestigious companies including Fastly, Slack, and most recently MailChimp.

Over the years, Duretti has held various roles including web developer UI designer, front end engineer, and back end engineer. She likes treats, the feeling of finding the perfect animated gif, and the vocal stylings of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. 

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Trevor Grant is a software engineer, active open source contributor and an AI evangelist for IBM. In college, Trevor started his own food delivery business and ran it for 4 years. Next, he decided to enter the US Army and went on to serve in Afghanistan as a combat medic. Since then, he’s held a variety of roles, including ones as a data scientist and an instructor. Virtually nothing about Trevor’s career is ordinary and neither is his current role as an AI evangelist. What does an AI evangelist do? Listen to this episode and you’ll find out.

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In today’s episode of Develomentor, we have Nick Caldwell. Nick has held almost every technical role one can imagine: software engineer, engineering manager, general manager and VP of engineering. Nick is currently the Chief Product Officer at Looker, a business intelligence company. But prior to this, he worked at major companies from Microsoft to Reddit to NASA. Today we will not only decode Nick's new position, but we'll also discuss strategies on how to shift YOUR career from engineering to product!

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