Engineering People Podcast

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

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/