Brandon Whichard

Misaligned Incentives Episode 1: Who forget to invite "The Business," to this kubernetes PoC?

September 11th, 2019  |  44 mins 21 secs

Join Rick and I as we try to find this elusive thing called "The Business." We lay out a theory we've been talking about: while IT has been improving or, at least, can improve, the business side of the house isn't showing up to do anything with CLOUD and AGILE and THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION.

Episode 82: Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations

July 9th, 2019  |  59 mins 12 secs

Chris Aniszczyk is the CTO of the CNCF. We discuss how he got into open source, what it's like to work at Twitter and how he helped start the CNCF. Plus, Chris gives us an overview of the different kinds of CNCF projects and offers advice on how to get started with Kubernetes.

Episode 81: Adam Jacob on saying Goodbye to OpenCore

April 8th, 2019  |  1 hr 14 mins

Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam's career, what led him to start Chef and Chef's recent decision to open source 100% of its Software. Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons & Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive.

Episode 80: Jeff Meyerson on starting the Software Engineering Daily Podcast

February 11th, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins

Jeff Meyerson is the host of Software Engineering Daily. We talk about on his career and what led him to start a daily tech podcast for developers.

Episode 78: Umair Khan on AI Ops and Cloud Security

December 24th, 2018  |  56 mins 6 secs

Brandon interviews Umair Khan about his experience working in AI Ops and in Cloud Security.

Episode 77: Jake Moilanen on going from Employee to Entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist

December 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 10 mins

Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time.

Episode 76: Zane Rockenbaugh on being the Startup CTO

November 5th, 2018  |  1 hr 10 mins

Zane Rockenbaugh specializes in working with early stage startups. He helps founders take their idea and turn it into something real. We talk about his career and what it's like to be a "Startup CTO."

Episode 75: Don't call me an "evangelist"

September 3rd, 2018  |  1 hr 20 mins

Coté talks about his job being an "evangelist," a word people no longer seem to use but everyone understands. Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work's like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well.

Episode 73: Dustin Kirkland on Linux, Cloud Computing and Product Management

August 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 17 mins

Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager.

Episode 72: Chris Donaldson on Automation

August 13th, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins

How do you implement IT Automation best practices at a large company? What's the best approach to convince stakeholders that IT Automation is worth the effort? In this interview with Acxiom's Chris Donaldson we talk all about the good, the bad and ugly of IT Automation.

Episode 71: Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing

July 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 2 mins

Brandon interviews Matthew Brutsché from 500 Rockets Marketing. Matt makes bold predications based on his recent shopping experience at the Amazon Go store and we talk about the evolution of digital marketing.

Episode 70: Satish Kodukula on Product Management

April 9th, 2018  |  51 mins 43 secs

Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula about product management. We compare product management at large companies and startups, discuss how to validate your next startup idea and when to build your minimum viable product (MVP).

Episode 65: Walter Bodwell on Agile

March 7th, 2018  |  1 hr 30 secs

How do you implement Agile? Why does Agile matter? How has Agile changed in the last decade? Where do you get a beer in Austin? Walter Bodwell answers all of these questions and more in this episode. Plus, we hear how a 9-month old company was sold for $100 Million.

Episode 63: JJ Asghar on DevOps, Compliance and Grilling

February 19th, 2018  |  1 hr 9 mins

JJ Asghar from Chef explains how he found his way into DevOps and why DevOps makes Christmas better. We also discuss the latest news about Uber's security breach and how it could have been prevented.

Episode 61: Jon Collins on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

February 5th, 2018  |  50 mins 29 secs

The EU is rolling out a huge privacy data regulation policy this Spring, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. If you do anything with “customer data,” you should probably at least take a look at it. Companies like Facebook and others who use customer data to work with third parties are gonna have GDPR all up in their grills. In this interviews episode, we talk with Jon Collins who’s been writing about GDPR of late from his perch in the UK. Jon’s an excellent analyst and always has incisive takes on enterprise IT related matters, as well as music (sadly, not featured in this episode).

Episode 60: Sell-side financial analysts, & enterprise software pricing

January 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 2 mins

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What do these financial, equity analyst types do? Well, if the stock market was rational, we could probably tell you. This week, we look at one PDF reporting on cloud and try to make sense of it. Also, we discuss enterprise software pricing, THE DANCE!