Frontier Podcast by Gun.io
After over a decade of working with highly skilled developers and businesses of all sizes, we've discovered that there is some pretty good advice just waiting to be shared. We've also learned that learning is something we just can't get enough of. This season of the Frontier Podcast, we'll be talking to experts from every walk of the technical life, while also taking a peek into the tech history that has gotten the world to where it is today.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 307
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
Jason Hintersteiner, CTO at Imperial Network Solutions
Andrew Plato, CEO, President, and Founder of Anitian
Adtech innovations at the retailing edge
In this episode Ledge sits down with Michael Weissman, 10-time entrepreneur, career high tech executive, and consultant to such tech allstars as Apple, Amazon, Adobe, and more.
Michael’s current adven…
From Startup Weekend to YC to startup success
Technology co-founder Matthew McDonald is no stranger to rapid change. He joined a Startup Weekend event, met some contractors there with an idea to change construction equipment rental industry, and…
Pet Tech - Wearables for Healthy Best Friends
Electrical engineer, Fabrizio Filippini, has always had a strong passion for web, IoT, and sports. That got him into wearables, which led him to join as a co-founder of FitBark.
Wearables for animals…
We’re all targets: Preparing for inevitable security breaches
Dan Tienes, CTO of Corporate Cost Control, has unique perspectives on cybersecurity, particularly having taken a personal interest in the well-known Equifax breach, having spent time working at the c…
Applying disruptive technologies in a familiar fashion in conservative business sectors
Tim Anderson is the Vice President of Technical Operations of Kasasa, a community financial institution fintech company. Kasasa offers a suite of checking account products for which Tim runs the impl…
Video calling technology on the cutting edge with Lifesize
Video connections are critical in a remote business environment. If we’re going to embrace remote work, we need video calls. That’s what Ledge talks about with Bobby Beckman, CTO of Lifesize, a formi…
Technical trends and trade-offs with a career CTO
Three-time CTO, Rich Brown, put in his Fortune 500 time across the enterprise sector at Bank of American, SAP, and others.
Ledge and Rich discuss the trade-offs of native and hybrid, cloud and local,…
Scaling remote engineering teams like Auth0
Damian Schenkelman is the Director of Engineering at Auth0. Ledge reached him at his remote office in Brazil.
Auth0 provides SDKs and APIs for identification and login. Auth0 is the Stripe of logging…
The amazing business of being ‘uncool’
In this episode, Ledge sits down with Nav Bhachech, who boasts an impressive CV having worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, to talk about his work with various SV-area startups.
Nav goes into detail a…
Adapting to Change in The Workplace
In this episode, Ledge sits down with Nav Bhachech, who boasts an impressive CV having worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, to talk about his work with various SV-area startups.
Nav goes into detail a…
Better Sales Conversions with Next-gen Software Demos
Do we take software demos for granted? Should we be investing more energy and attention into demo UX? CEO and founder of Omedym, Greg Dickinson, believes so. Omedym’s solution helps companies craft i…
Retail SaaS Platforms at the Cutting Edge
ason Zubrick has enjoyed a trailblazing career in retail finance, helping small-scale outlets revolutionize their technology approach, as the CTO at defi SOLUTIONS. defi’s loan origination solution p…
Mobile App Security and Threat Defense
Mobile app security expert Domingo Guerra is an authority in a field that’s growing at a frenetic pace. As the founder of Appthority, Domingo witnessed first-hand how businesses require increasing le…
Software dominates high-traffic commerce
Leon Fayer began his prolific software engineering career some 25 years ago in government contracting, and has since shifted gears to focus on the private sector. His multi-sector gives him unique in…
F.A.T.E. – From Addict to Entrepreneur; “Chasing the High” (Author Interview)
Entrepreneur Michael Dash had it all -- a multi-million dollar business, cars, real estate, you name it. He also had a compulsive and addictive personality that led him to gambling, drugs, and a dest…
‘Showing respect for abstraction’ - an AI pioneer on machine learning and data science
AI pioneer, Sandra Carrico, joins Ledge in this fascinating episode where she recounts the early days of AI, the early 80s AI winter, and the dawn of computational linguistics.
Now the VP of Engineeri…
Making the leap from Philosophy to Software Engineering
Caleb Ontiveros, who left the University of Notre Dame’s PhD program in philosophy to pursue a career in tech, is often asked by people studying philosophy how he transitioned to software engineering…
Psychological safety in tech and software engineering with a human touch
Software may be written on machines, but it's written by and for human beings.
That’s according to Ledge’s guest, April Wensel founder, of Compassionate Coding, a company offering advice and workshops…