The Tech Trek

What you’ll learn:

Meet: Dan Simon is currently the VP of Engineering at Qventus, a health care operations company.  In his capacity there he manages all aspects of engineering execution and operations, from application development to data science.  Prior to Qventus Dan held leadership roles in several startups across 8 different industries, including real estate software, security, social gaming, live event ticketing, and video platform.  He holds a bachelor’s in computer science and a bachelor’s in applied math from UC Davis.

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

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

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What you’ll learn:

- Adjusting to the differences in structure between private industry and the military

- Valuing the importance of resource allocation

- Dealing with the difference between training and education

- When taking your first post-military role try to understand the importance of geography, industry, and function

- Transitioning your network from the military to the private industry

- Leveraging your “one last move”

- Discovering the hidden talent in the military

Meet: Chris Ieva is a retired Marine Corps Infantry Officer who now heads up Data Science for Anheuser-Busch.

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

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

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What you’ll learn:

How to grow an agile data and analytics team

Solving data discovery challenges to speed up productivity

Agility vs velocity

Providing data capabilities to more users

Meet: Romit Jadhwani is the Head of Growth Analytics, Data Science, and Business Intelligence at Pinterest. Before Pinterest, he led the Ads Business Intelligence team at Google. Romit is passionate about helping companies grow and scale and is always looking for ideas and techniques to drive innovation and agility with analytics and data. He loves solving problems, whether it is helping a $1B+ company continue with its hyper-growth trajectory or teaching his young kids why it is important to eat all their vegetables.

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

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

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What you’ll learn:

Challenges in getting deep expertise in many areas

Moving from a project focus to deeper subject matter expertise

Moving towards intent-based leadership

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Meet: Brian Berger has served in a variety of Engineering and Operations leadership positions in IaaS and SaaS companies for 20+ years.  He works with organizations to improve delivery velocity and increase service reliability within and between Software Development and Operations organizations.

He currently serves as Ping Identity’s Senior Director of Infrastructure Operations.  His teams are accountable for infrastructure services, reliability, and delivery pipelines for Ping’s Global SaaS Identity Management solutions serving over 60% of the Fortune 100.

Prior to joining Ping Brian was Sr. Director of Engineering at Wellsky where he led  Software Development, Quality Assurance, and SRE programs for their Home Health, Hospice, and Private Duty Agency management SaaS offerings.

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

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

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What you can take away from this episode:

Meet: Chris Ieva is a retired Marine Corps Infantry Officer who now heads up Data Science for Anheuser-Busch.

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

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

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What we cover:

Improving asynchronous communication

Understanding where decisions are being made

Establishing repeatable actions and rituals

Leadership is about availability

Part of the job of the leader is to tell the story and celebrate the team

Meet: Mitch Trale is Head of Infrastructure at HackerOne -- the world's leading crowdsourced security platform. He is responsible for HackerOne's highly available, performant, and secure web application architecture. A hacker and startup technologist, Mitch has been building engineering teams and digital products for 20 years.

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

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

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What you’ll learn:

Growing and building your security capabilities

Prioritizing the first cybersecurity hire

Security tools and automation rather than shifting left

Building relationships with security startups to expand capabilities

Meet: Jonathan Jaffe, Lemonade Insurance's CISO. Jonathan's been practicing security since 1997. He has designed and installed the earliest internet-centric access control systems for airlines, banks, manufacturers, and tech companies. He has designed identity and access management systems for more than 45 companies since 1999.

Jonathan is also a privacy attorney, taking a mid-career tangential detour to develop and prosecute the largest US privacy class action at the time against Facebook, protecting the privacy rights of billions of people and leading to the closure of Facebook's Sponsored Stories. Jonathan is a founding member of Silicon Valley CISO Investments, a group dedicated to advancing better security products for the benefit of all. Jonathan assists security start-ups by advising them on market fit and helping them improve their products. You can reach him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanjaffe/

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What you’ll learn:

Building resiliency into systems

Failing and non-failing validations

If failure happens, what’s the fallback plan?

Creating SLAs with upstream teams

Meet: Teresa Martyny is the Engineering Manager for the Data OS Infrastructure team at New Relic, an observability platform built to help engineers create more perfect software.

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

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

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What you’ll learn:

The extensibility of the Salesforce platform

Growth and evolution of the platform

Pushing Salesforce to do something that it shouldn’t

Dealing with technical debt

Meet:

Hyung Lee started his career in finance software and really took a more focused route during his tenure at Salesforce. From there he had the fortune to work at some noteworthy technology companies. He has a passion for solving problems with technology, people and process and over the course of his career have grown to be a "people first" technology leader.

Chi Ho is a platform-as-a-service champion with 13+ of years building applications on Salesforce. He is currently leading multiple teams in enterprise digital transformation for over 20,000 users with an emphasis on bringing intuitive design and consumer-like features into the workplace.

If you have any questions for Hyung or Chi, please feel free to reach out via:

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

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

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What you’ll learn:

Building trust and transparency in the team

Adjusting the structure of the 1-1 meeting for Zooms

Replicating the ideation process while remote

Meet: Zak Allen is the VP of Engineering at Shogun. Shogun, backed by 8VC and Founders Fund, empowers home improvement contractors with software products to help them manage their businesses such as Financing, Payments, and other tools. Zak was one of the first employees at Shogun and has seen it grow to over 100 people, serving over 10,000 contractors across the US. Prior to Shogun, Zak was the first employee at FlyHomes, a real estate tech startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, which has similarly grown now to over 250 employees.

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

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

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