Engineering People Podcast

Amy Wiley, Vice President of Engineering Services, Webroot

As Vice President of Engineering Services, Amy is part of a global team that ranges from DevOps engineers, escalation engineers, quality assurance (QA) team members, and support engineers to customer retention agents, UX/UI designers, advanced malware removal analysts and threat research experts.

In her role, Amy serves as the voice of the customer, working with development, QA, product management and sales and marketing to ensure customer or product problems are resolved and, ultimately, keeping customers cyber safe.

She leads a team that works around the clock, every single day, to monitor systems, engage with customers, and ensure that Webroot is providing the best experience and protection in the industry.

Amy has more than 17 years of experience working for software development companies in different capacities. Prior to her nearly 16-year tenure at Webroot, she worked as a technical account manager and a staff software engineer at Rally Software and IBM Rational.

When she is not in the office, Amy, alongside her husband Mike, can be found on cheering their kids (18-year-old Sammy and 16-year-old Bennett) playing basketball, golf, soccer, and track. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyjwiley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wileyaj

Eric Schrock is the CTO at Delphix, where he drives technology strategy and thought leadership around the future of enterprise data. He previously helped scale the Delphix product and team as VP of Engineering. His passion is for creating things, from woodworking and music to products and organizations. Prior to Delphix, Eric was a founding member of the team at Sun that built the ZFS Storage Appliance product. He started his career as a Solaris kernel hacker after earning a CS degree from Brown. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschrock/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericschrock

Seth is the VP of Engineering at Chef. He is a product-focused engineering leader who believes the essential elements for a high-performing team are shared purpose, clear communication, commitment to learning, and mechanisms for measuring outcomes. Seth began his career melding data analysis, software engineering, and open source project management at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he worked on the Bioconductor project and contributed to R. In 2010, he joined Chef Software, an IT company that helps enterprises increase their velocity through automation of infrastructure, compliance, and applications. At Chef, his roles have spanned software development engineer to VP of Engineering. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethfalcon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sfalcon

Mark has been with ConnectWise, Inc for 14 years and is currently Senior Director of Product Development for the ConnectWise software.  Mark is also chairman of the board of directors for Computer Mentors, a non-profit organization that teaches the fundamentals of programming, entrepreneurism, public speaking, and more to the underserved youth of our community.  He is also on the ISDS Advisory Board for the MUMA College of Business at the University of South Florida.  Since joining ConnectWise, Mark has been a key contributor in the development of the ConnectWise software and has helped to define and improve the software development process.  Mark has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and a Master's Degree in Engineering Management, both from the University of South Florida.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-laplante-419b59a/

Thomas Price is the Director of Engineering of the Core Engineering division at the Standard where he focuses on the Core Applications and Enterprise Integration product teams. He was also until very recently responsible for the Application Security team at the Standard as well. Thomas started his career as a firmware developer and has slowly moved up the technology stack to desktop applications, mobile software and now enterprise software. He has spent a large portion of his career in regulated industries like medical devices, digital health, and insurance. He has also worked in commercial spaces like auto dealerships and storage servers. Most of his career has been in product development but now he is spending some time in IT driving the technology and platform transformation at the Standard.

Thomas also sits on the Technology Leadership Committee at the Technology Association of Oregon as well as the Board and Steering Committee of the PSU/PDX Cooperative Education Program. He participates in one adventurous activity every year, which once included spending a weekend riding rodeo bulls, and this year will involve a Kayak/Camping trip through the San Juan Islands. Thomas holds a BS in Computer Science from Colorado State University and an MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver.

He has put his primary focus on improving the culture, processes and development effectiveness of organizations. Beyond that, he strives to engage with the local technology community in ways that bring value back to those he engages with. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasprice

Mikey Butler is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at New Relic. He's responsible for Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Site Engineering Operations. He brings more than 30 years of experience in the software industry. The first half focused on system coding at Digital Equipment, Bank of America, Data General, Rolm and Sun. The latter half on engineering management for Cisco Systems, Sybase, BEA Systems, Intuit and, most recently, Seagate. And named one of the 50 Most Important African Americans in Technology at the 2009 Soul of Technology Innovation and Equity Symposium. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikey-butler-25602a1/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikeybutler

Katie is a Director of Engineering at Buffer, a globally distributed team with no offices, and O'Reilly author. At Buffer, she leads the engineering team focusing on crafting productive, effective teams, developing career frameworks and engineering management practices and delivering a world-class software product. She previously worked as a software engineer before moving into leadership. Her writing has appeared in The Next Web, Inc Magazine and Fast Company.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleenwomersley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/katie_womers 

Tim Olshansky is the Chief Technology Officer at Aconex, the most widely used online collaboration platform in the world for large capital projects. He joined Aconex in 2015 after the acquisition of a startup he co-founded, Worksite, the first fully cloud-based cost management system in the industry. He now leads the development of Aconex's entire project collaboration solution, which powers some of the world's largest projects like Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timols/

Mark Barbir is the SVP Software Engineering at MINDBODY, where he oversees the software development lifecycle, project management, and quality assurance. With over 20 years of experience in both mobile and web, his passion is building great products and teams. Prior to MINDBODY, Mark led product management and software engineering at SenseLabs, which delivered mobile performance brain training to NBA, NFL, Olympic and Red Bull athletes.  His experience also includes supporting a diverse breadth of industries and global brands including household names such as Apple, Hewlett Packard, Philips, Pioneer, Oakley, Quiksilver, Roxy, Disney and many others. A Bay Area native and rabid Golden State Warriors fan, he spends time with his wife and three sons hanging out at local beaches, hiking, and camping.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbarbir/