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As the internet has grown, increasingly, we are consumers of services provided by corporations rather than owners and operators of our own systems.  To many, this trend towards centralization is antithetical to the spirit of a free and open internet.

Urbit is a new operating system and peer-to-peer network.  There are several layers of novel ideas in this ambitious project.  In this episode, I interview Galen Wolfe-Pauly about the Urbit project.

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Robotic process automation or RPA refers to software robots constructed to automate some business process.  Perhaps the most ubiquitous example is adding filters to your email inbox.  I’ve worked with a lot of salespeople that configure complex email follow-up campaigns when inbound emails come in, but even that’s a fairly basic example compared to what’s becoming possible.

UiPath is an automation platform.  They offer a suite of solutions that empower developers and non-developers to construct effective software robots that can measurably improve business efficiency.  In this interview, I speak with Boris Krumrey, Global VP Automation Innovations at UiPath.  We overview the platform and discuss the current and future state of RPA.

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Climate modeling is increasingly important as supply chains, emergency management, and dozens of other efforts need to make predictions about future conditions and how they will impact business.  Analyzing climate data requires geospatial systems, and those systems need a full-stack geospatial technology solution.

Gopal Erinjippurath serves as CTO and Head of Product at Sust Global, a venture focused on geospatial analytics.  We discuss the software of climate adaptation.

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Internships can be an incredibly valuable resource to new professionals and are often the first professional work experience for many participants.  It’s often the case that internship programs are suboptimal.  Employers don’t always provide a clear path to success for the intern.  Interns in turn don’t always have a resource to reach out for help or even know that it’s ok to do so.

Nikita Gupta is a Co-Founder & CTO at Symba, a company that provides an all-in-one platform for managing talent development programs.  We talk about what makes a good internship, how Symba helps companies facilitate that, and her journey as an entrepreneur.

Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

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With a few impressive exceptions, software is rarely written by one person.  It takes a team and as that team outgrows a single shared office, coordination and communication become emergent problems.  There are lots of lessons to be learned from companies that have already found approaches that scale.

In this episode, I interview Tramale Turner, Head of Engineering, Traffic, and Seattle Site Lead at Stripe.  We discuss infrastructure, organizational structure, and some insights made at Stripe.  It’s an in-depth conversation with useful advice for all stages of the journey of a modern software engineer.

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To many people’s surprise tech sales is not much of an art. It’s actually a regimented science where reps have clear step-by-step processes to bring in new business. Each stage takes the customer closer to the end of the deal and consists of learning more about the customer’s needs. 

A CRM is a database reps use to track this customer journey allowing sales leaders to forecast their revenue, but the output is only as good as the input sales reps provide. Given the sales rep is the only person who talks to the customer, there’s no way for sales leaders to check the quality and completeness of the information reps are providing. This is where products like Gong come in. 

Today I met with a very special guest, Gong’s Executive Vice President of Research and Development, Ohad Parush. Gong gives their customers insight into sales conversations to provide more accurate data to sales managers. This in turn allows sales managers to forecast revenue better and coach their teams with greater detail…turning sales data from a game of telephone into a coordinated team sport.

This episode is hosted by David Cohen. David is a Software Engineering Lead at LinkedIn where he works on backend applications and APIs that power their enterprise data systems. In his free time, he is an AI enthusiast and enjoys talking about all things Software. You can contact him on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Show Notes:

Gong.io

Gong Culture

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The banking industry uses technology that some modern software engineers may regard as out of date or old-fashioned.  Entrepreneurs wanting to create products in the banking space historically faced a steep curve to build software that could integrate with established banking systems.

Christopher Dean seeks to change that.  He founded Treasury Prime, a company that offers a suite of APIs to embed a full range of banking services from cards to account opening to payments.  In this episode, we talk about how that solution works behind the scenes and what APIs are available for developers.

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It wasn’t that long ago that companies scheduled downtime in order to release an updated version of the software running their website.  That’s rare today.  Most developers want continuous testing, integration, and deployment.  While that comes with many benefits, it also places greater demands on quality engineers who can no longer gate all updates into a single infrequency release.

Liliya Frye is the Director of QA Engineering at LeagueApps, a provider of Sports League & Team Management Software.  In this episode, we discuss Liliya’s experiences and modern practices for successful enterprise strategies.

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Welcome to Software Engineering Daily; I’m your guest host, Joey Baruch. I’m the CTO at Alvarez and Marsal Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), prior to which I co-founded and was CTO of HuMoov, a vertical SaaS. I’ve been a software engineer at PayPal, IBM Research Labs, and Qualcomm via the acquisition of Wilocity. 

Joining me is Fernando Gómez-Baquero, the Director of the Runway and Spinouts Program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, which is the technology campus of Cornell University located on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Fernando is a nanomaterials scientist and serial entrepreneur. He’s built companies around composite aerospace materials, technologies for energy storage and has mentored 100s of companies – mostly with deep tech innovations at their core. He also manages a portfolio of 82 companies created at Cornell Tech and the Jacobs Institute, with a combined enterprise value of over half a billion USD.

Fernando joins us to talk about his experience, speaking to the engineer with the entrepreneurial spirit, encouraging the journey, and laying out the core attributes of a process that can be taught, which will help the entrepreneur build a great company. He reminds us of what’s mission-critical and what can be left for another day.

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Cornell Tech: https://tech.cornell.edu/

Runway Program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute: https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/phd/startup-postdocs/

Lunchclub: https://lunchclub.com/

NewLab: https://newlab.com/

Company: https://company.co/

Activate: https://www.activate.org/

Tech.NYC: https://www.technyc.org/

Aren.ai : https://aren.ai/

Nanit: https://www.nanit.com/

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