Engineering People Podcast

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/

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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/

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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