Ardan Labs Podcast
This podcast features intimate conversations with engineers who are in the forefront of building or teaching technology. Join us as we learn how our guests got started in tech, the type and level of education they've obtained, their work history, and personal stories about their journey. We publish the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and the Web biweekly on Wednesdays at 12pm US Eastern Time. Subscribe and STAY TUNED!
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 84 minutes
- Episodes
- 134
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
From 3D Design to Full Stack Engineer with Lee Trout
Lee Trout is a Full Stack Engineer who works with start-ups, small businesses, and large companies specializing in DevOps / front and backend development. In this episode he takes us through his jou…
From Music to Open Source with Jeremy Saenz
Jeremy Saenz is a Senior Software Engineer at Synadia who works with maintaining an open source messaging platform called NATS. In this episode he takes us on his journey from music production and pr…
Movies, Macs, and Microsoft with John Doak
John Doak is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft and also the author of the book “Go for DevOps”. In this episode he takes us through his journey from martial arts and cinematography in high school an…
From Music to Coding with Tracy Holmes
Tracy Holmes is a Technical Community Advocate at Isovalent who takes us through her path to reaching her present position. In this episode we can watch her story develop from being involved in musi…
Web Development and Cloud Computing with Colby Fayock
Colby Fayock is currently a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary who teaches the tools of the web and Cloudinary implementation. Colby takes us on a journey through creating websites in…
The Journey to a PhD with Anna-Katharina Wickert
Anna-Katharina Wickert is currently pursuing her PhD in computer science with a focus on security and organizer for the Golang User meetup in Frankfurt, Germany. From programming at the age of 13 to …
From Motorsports to AWS Cloud Formation Team with Brian Terry
Episode Description:
Brian Terry is a senior solutions architect on the ISV Integrations team at AWS (formerly with the Cloud Formation team). We hear about his unique journey from being a star athlet…
Advancing Your Career with Sonja Price
Sonja Price is a career strategist, salary advisor, leadership coach, and the founder of Dynamo Careers. We learn all about Sonja’s journey from being employee #2 at a startup in the early 2000’s to …
Cluster Infrastructure, Coreboot, & Plan 9 with Ron Minnich
Ron Minnich is the President of the Plan 9 Foundation and a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. Ron has been on the forefront of many technologies, starting his journey with computers as a kid …
Trust Engineering with Florent Biville
Florent Biville maintains the official Go driver at graph database company, neo4j. We talk about the challenges and benefits of constantly learning new languages, interviewing at large companies, con…
Never Say No to Opportunities with Steve Wade
Steve Wade is a founding engineer at KSOC Labs, a cloud-native SaaS platform built to remediate Kubernetes security risks in real time. We talk about the struggles around playing professional soccer,…
Ethical AI, Endangered Languages, & NLP with Daniel Whitenack
Daniel Whitenack is a co-host of the Practical AI podcast and a data scientist with SIL International. In one of our more technical episodes, we hear about Daniel’s journey from computational physics…
LinkedIn Learning, Interviewing, & Adding Skills with Adelina Simion
Adelina Simion is a technology evangelist at Form3 and teaches courses on Go with LinkedIn Learning. We learn about Adelina’s passion for learning new things and now sharing that knowledge with other…
Tokyo, Python, & Google with Ian Lewis
Ian Lewis is a developer advocate at Google Cloud. In this podcast episode, Ian shares some of his insights on how to be a productive engineer when the codebase is in another language, how to build a…
Teaching & Sharing Knowledge with Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson is a senior developer relations engineer at Google. Mark has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge with younger engineers. We hear about his experience growing up in Chicago, ove…
Leaving a Legacy of Love with Ken Wimberly
Ken Wimberly is the founder of the Legacy of Love app, a parent-to-child journaling app designed to capture the moments that matter. Ken speaks about the challenges of building and growing an app as …
Environmental Consulting to Tech with Cathleen Turner
Cathleen Turner is a senior software engineer at Perch and founder of Czero Grocery & CZero Foods (formerly listful.ai). We hear about how she first was introduced to programming through her studies …
Knative & Kubernetes with Ville Aikas
Ville Aikas is the founder of the supply chain security startup, Chainguard. We learn about foreign exchange student programs, early internet operating systems, working at Google, and working on proj…
Technical Legacy with Joonas Bergius
Joonas Bergius is currently a co-founder at Statype and an early employee of Digital Ocean. We talk about the experience of attending multiple schools in different countries, military service, techno…
Searching For New Challenges with Ishuah Kariuki
Ishuah Kariuki is a software engineer at Microsoft. We talk about what it was like growing up in Kenya, the struggle of learning about computers with limited access to them, changing jobs as a means …