Highlights of my conversation with Jeff:

Meet: Jeff has been working in the technology space for over 20 years as everything from a software engineer, chief architect, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer. As the CTO at Octave, he will be expanding and scaling our world-class team of software engineers, evolving our architecture for scale, and guiding our technology to make the lives of clinicians and clients better.

Prior to joining Octave Jeff was in the Wellness space with TrueCoach, as well as the Enterprise SaaS space with Rally Software.

When not working, he can be found enjoying everything Colorado has to offer, including snowboarding, hiking, and cycling.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefmsmit

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Highlights of my conversation with Nikhil:

Meet: Nikhil Desai is an experienced software engineer with 15+ years of global high tech and FinTech experience. He is passionate about creating products that provide real value to customers and significantly impact society. He has worked on product development for the LendingClub platform, Citrix GoToMeeting, and several other high-scale software products and services. Recently, leading 60+ engineers at Earnest, a FinTech company focused on solving interesting problems in the student loans space

If you have any questions for Nikhil, please feel free to reach out via:

www.linkedin.com/in/nikhildesai

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Highlights of my conversation with Ray:

Meet: Meet: Ray Espinoza is CISO at Inspectiv. At the time of recording, he was the VP of Cloud Security at Medallia. Before Medallia, Ray was CISO at Cobalt.io, a pentest-as-a-service company. Ray also drove third-party cloud security across Amazon's retail business. He also held VP and CISO roles with Atmosera and Proofpoint and various security leadership positions at Workday, Cisco Systems, and eBay.

If you have any questions for Ray, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-espinoza-b399821/

https://twitter.com/rayespinozasec

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Highlights of my conversation with Dhara:

Meet: Dhara Patel is SVP of Engineering, leading multiple groups building product platforms at Kinesso. She has industry experience in SaaS products and leading engineering teams in hyper-growth environments. Throughout her experience, she has led various platforms, services, data-centric products, and SaaS applications at scale. Before joining Kinesso, she led various engineering and product groups at Twilio and Citrix, building enterprise insights products, developer platforms, internal tools, and applications. She is passionate about leadership and enjoys working in areas where business meets engineering and innovation.

If you have any questions for Dhara, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharapateldesai/

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Highlights of my conversation with John:

Meet: Currently Director for Analytics at Brookdale Senior Living, John is an expert in digital transformation and data strategy. He leads organizations through growth and development of business analytics practices, primarily in service-oriented industries such as healthcare. As a result, John's work has delivered ROI and winning strategies for companies in the business of people. John holds a BA from Occidental College and MBA from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he lives with his family.

If you have any questions for John, please feel free to reach out via:

https://twitter.com/johnawilsontn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnawilson/

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Highlights of my conversation with Joshua:

If you have any questions for Joshua, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coderjoshua/

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Highlights of my conversation with Sagar:

Meet: Sagar Anand works as a Sr Engineering Manager at Twin Health, leading the Platform team to help reverse chronic metabolic diseases. He takes pride in building customer-centric products while cultivating a positive culture & team spirit. Before Health Tech, he developed marketplaces & Big data platforms for different industries, including RPA and Enterprise Software.

If you have any questions for Sagar, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanand1989/

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Highlights from my chat with Ken:

Meet: Ken Pickering is the VP of Engineering at Starburst Data, where he's looking to help companies make better, faster decisions on more complete data. Before that, he was the CTO of Hopper and made travel easy and affordable.

If you have any questions for Ken, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenpickering/

https://twitter.com/kpick

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Highlights from my conversation with Brian:

Meet: Brian Jackson ​​is a DevOps advocate currently helping create immersive Star Wars experiences at Lucasfilm. Currently, Brian is the Manager of DevOps Engineering at Lucasfilm. Previously helped Apple Pay and ESPN.com be more productive through delivery automation.

If you have any questions for Brian, please feel free to reach out via:

https://twitter.com/jaxzin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianrjackson/

https://www.instagram.com/jaxzin/

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Highlights of my conversation with Kinshuk:

Cedar’s Distinguished Engineer Program (DEP): https://decode.cedar.com/our-engineering-growth-framework/

Meet: Kinshuk Mishra leads the product engineering and data teams at Cedar in his role as VP, Engineering. Cedar is a healthcare financial engagement platform that addresses all of the challenges consumers face when paying for care.

Kinshuk started his career as a backend engineer in Seattle working for Expedia and Amazon for the first few years of his career. He then joined as one of the founding engineers of Spotify’s Ads Engineering team in NYC, and witnessed the hyper-growth of Spotify’s product and the organization during his stint leading the Ads Engineering team—learning the strategies one needs to navigate a rapidly scaling company. He then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to lead engineering for a small startup in the video communication space, Houseparty. And just prior to Cedar, Kinshuk led teams at YouTube in the music streaming space.

Through his experience of managing teams at companies large and small, he has learned valuable management lessons through both successes and failures.

If you have any questions for Kinshuk, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kinshukmishra/

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