Episode 99: Business Organization with Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Ahmad Nassri of Telus Digital Special guest Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss community building, TechMasters, and business and team organization. Nassri likes to describe Telus Digital, an approximately 300 person team, with a large presence in Vancouver as well as Toronto, as being the software arm, or the part that enables all the digital experiences that Telus customers, whether business or consumers are interacting with. As the organizer of TechMasters, Nassri is very active helping to bring the technology community closer ..read more
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Episode 98: Recruiting & Hiring with Nicky Kunstman of InVision
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Nicky Kunstman, Internal Recruiter at InVision Special guest Nicky Kunstman joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss InVision, and the process of recruiting. People who are passionate about issues of scale, usability, cloud-computing, and seeing the difference they are able to make in the lives of people on the design and UX side of things, while helping them make better products may find working with InVision appealing. Listen in to dive into questions around the interviewing process, how InVision maintains a 100% fully remote team, and much more! Follow Nicky Kunstman on Twitter at ..read more
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Episode 97: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs - with MaRi Eagar and Manie Eagar
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guests MaRi Eagar and Manie Eagar Special guests Manie and MaRi Eagar of Digital Futures, who conducted the first study in Canada that set out to discover competitive drivers to build and further develop the ecosystem that supports Vancouver, BC, and Canada, as a global Blockchain and FinTech hub. And who have more associations and accomplishments than can easily be listed in an introduction join host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICOs, and their implications to Canadians and the world. Blockchain Association of Canada Chairman, Manie Eagar, a contrinuting a ..read more
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Episode 96: Continuous Delivery with Dan Garfield of Codefresh
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Dan Garfield of Codefresh Special guest Dan Garfield, VP of Marketing at Codefresh joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss continuous deployment with Codefresh, a CI/CD (continuous integration and deployment) platform with a focus on providing end-to-end automation for everything containers and Kubernetes. Historically looking at how automation has been done, there has been a lot of scripting, and a lot of duplication of work; people are building the same machines over and over again, with different projects. Codefresh aims at taking a strong pipeline, such as the the Netflix pipelin ..read more
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Episode 87: Shannon Salter, Chair of the Civil Resolution Tribunal
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal Special guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss how technological innovation is helping increase access to justice. The online resources use ai to help people find solutions to their problems, and even resolve disputes, with the help of the CRT (Civil Resolution Tribunal). Salter, along with Lauryn Kerr, Expert Systems Analyst at the BC Ministry of Justice, Dispute Resolution Office gave an in-depth talk at the Vancouver Legal Hacker's meetup in June entitled: AI, Exp ..read more
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Episode 86: Monoliths vs Microservices Part IV
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Scott Bellware of the Eventide Project Special Guest Scott Bellware, co-creator of the Eventide Project, a toolkit for developing event-sourced distributed systems, joined host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around Microservices versus Monolithic software architecture. Bellware shares insight from his development experience and offers words of advice and caution for software companies facing a rewrite of a monolith into a service-based distributed system. Follow Scott Bellware on Twitter at @sbellware and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast. Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Ev ..read more
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Episode 85: Ken McDonald, Chief Growth Officer of TeamSnap
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Ken McDonald of TeamSnap Special guest Ken McDonald, Chief Growth Officer at TeamSnap and co-author of How to Acquire Your First Million Customers: Scaling Your Online Business by Laying the Foundation for Growth, joins host Drew Ogryzek. McDonald tells us about TeamSnap, the team management app that helps save coaches and managers time organizing their teams and groups, and shares from his extensive experience in "growth hacking," including some great insights on analytics and A/B testing. Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives us a great overview and curated list of tech ..read more
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Episode 84: Jerry Chi, Data Scientist at Supercell
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Jerry Chi of Supercell Special guest Jerry Chi of Supercell, the mobile game company behind titles such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars, currently under soft-launch only in Canada, joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss what it's like living and working in Japan as a foreigner. Chi has an impressive background having graduated Stanford, and receiving an MBA from Wharton, while also speaking four languages: Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. He offers insights into some of the differences in opportunities between Japanese companies and foreign companies with offi ..read more
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Episode 83: Monoliths Vs Microservices Part 3: Nathan Ladd
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Nathan Ladd of the Eventide-Project Special guest Nathan Ladd, co-creator of the Eventide Project (http://eventide-project.org/) joins host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around monolithic software architecture versus microservices, what that means, and what the informed CEO should know when a team is considering tackling this type of software design shift. What is a monolith? What does microservices architecture bring to the table? What should we consider when determining what makes sense for the software that drives our business? "The database layer; how you arrange your bits o ..read more
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Episode 82: Kevin Rockwood, Skelter Labs
Vancouver Tech Podcast
by Drew Ogryzek
2y ago
Special Guest Kevin Rockwood, Skelter Labs (S. Korea) Guest Kevin Rockwood from Skelter Labs in South Korea, a company working on several artificial intelligence based projects joins host Drew Ogryzek. After 8 years working in Cincinnati as a software developer, Rockwood and his wife decided to move to Korea. Having not done any research into the job market for software developers in Korea, Rockwood says attending local tech meetups, like the Seoul Elixir meetup which he currently organizes, is an excellent way to meet people and connections, and even find meaningful employment. Programs, suc ..read more
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