<p>Change Wave is a new Treehouse podcast that takes <span style="font-weight: 400;">an exclusive look at the real, first-hand stories of how cutting-edge leaders rose to the top, smashed through barriers and created real change. Subscribe to Change Wave wherever you get your podcasts. See you there!</span></p>

Change Wave is a new Treehouse podcast that takes an exclusive look at the real, first-hand stories of how cutting-edge leaders rose to the top, smashed through barriers and created real change. Subscribe to Change Wave wherever you get your podcasts. See you there!

Engineering People Podcast

Introducing: Change Wave

<p>Robby Russell is the VP of Engineering at Planet Argon.</p>

Robby Russell is the VP of Engineering at Planet Argon.

Robby Russell

<p>Josh Schlanger is the Vice President of DevOps and IT at Demandbase, currently leading the teams that manage all the infrastructure, security and compliance, release management and end user support to help Demandbase achieve and maintain its status as the leader in Account Based Marketing (ABM). With 20 years of experience with public and private cloud, security, compliance, big data, and business applications, he was fortunate enough to have been part of an acquisition by IBM as well as an IPO with ChannelAdvisor.</p>

Josh Schlanger is the Vice President of DevOps and IT at Demandbase, currently leading the teams that manage all the infrastructure, security and compliance, release management and end user support to help Demandbase achieve and maintain its status as the leader in Account Based Marketing (ABM). With 20 years of experience with public and private cloud, security, compliance, big data, and business applications, he was fortunate enough to have been part of an acquisition by IBM as well as an IPO with ChannelAdvisor.

Josh Schlanger

<p>Alexander Gladshtein is the Director of Software Development at CBORD, which powers access, card, foodservice, housing, nutrition and diet office management systems for healthcare, higher education, and business campuses.</p>

Alexander Gladshtein is the Director of Software Development at CBORD, which powers access, card, foodservice, housing, nutrition and diet office management systems for healthcare, higher education, and business campuses.

Alexander Gladshtein

<p>Nathan Stott is the VP of Architecture at Influence Health.</p>

Nathan Stott is the VP of Architecture at Influence Health.

Nathan Stott

<p>Nathan Mumm is the Chief Technology Officer at BluZEBRA Technologies and the Chief Information Security Officer at Copiers Northwest.</p>

Nathan Mumm is the Chief Technology Officer at BluZEBRA Technologies and the Chief Information Security Officer at Copiers Northwest.

Nathan Mumm

<p>Ted Neward is an industry professional of twenty years' experience. He speaks at conferences all over the world and writes regularly for a variety of publications across the Java, .NET, and other ecosystems. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, dog, four cats, eight laptops, seven tablets, nine phones, and a rather large utility bill.</p>

Ted Neward is an industry professional of twenty years' experience. He speaks at conferences all over the world and writes regularly for a variety of publications across the Java, .NET, and other ecosystems. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, dog, four cats, eight laptops, seven tablets, nine phones, and a rather large utility bill.

Ted Neward

<p>Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of DataStax products successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years.</p>

Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of DataStax products successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years.

Patrick McFadin

<div>Dan Harden is an Engineering Manager at Condé Nast. He and his team work within a family of over 20 iconic brands (such as WIRED, The New Yorker, and Vogue), each with their own unique style. He has a keen interest in shaping the future of journalism, and he is passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them achieve their career goals.</div>

Dan Harden is an Engineering Manager at Condé Nast. He and his team work within a family of over 20 iconic brands (such as WIRED, The New Yorker, and Vogue), each with their own unique style. He has a keen interest in shaping the future of journalism, and he is passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them achieve their career goals.

Dan Harden

<p>Tal Broner is Vice President of Software Engineering at Egnyte, overseeing product development and innovation. Tal has held a variety of leadership positions in engineering, product management and global operations for large-scale cloud and on-premise enterprise software solutions companies. Prior to Egnyte he served as Vice President of R&D in HP’s Enterprise Software division with responsibility for the IT Service Management products, generating over $500 Million in annual revenue. He was also a key leader at Mercury Interactive, Appilog, Inc and Broadband Studios, Inc., through their acquisitions.</p>

Tal Broner is Vice President of Software Engineering at Egnyte, overseeing product development and innovation. Tal has held a variety of leadership positions in engineering, product management and global operations for large-scale cloud and on-premise enterprise software solutions companies. Prior to Egnyte he served as Vice President of R&D in HP’s Enterprise Software division with responsibility for the IT Service Management products, generating over $500 Million in annual revenue. He was also a key leader at Mercury Interactive, Appilog, Inc and Broadband Studios, Inc., through their acquisitions.

Tal Broner

<p>Chris Cortez is Vice President of Engineering for <strong>Apex Clearing</strong>, the technology platform for the most innovative Fintech and Financial Services firms. In two and a half years, he has tripled the size of his Engineering organization to support the runaway growth of Apex customers and industry segment. In addition to his work in technology leadership, Cortez produced the film <em><strong>No No: A Dockumentary</strong></em>, which premiered in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on all major streaming platforms.</p> <div><strong>LINKS</strong></div> <div>LinkedIn: <a class="textEditor-link" href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccortez/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-is-link= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccortez/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccortez/</a></div> <div> </div>

Chris Cortez is Vice President of Engineering for Apex Clearing, the technology platform for the most innovative Fintech and Financial Services firms. In two and a half years, he has tripled the size of his Engineering organization to support the runaway growth of Apex customers and industry segment. In addition to his work in technology leadership, Cortez produced the film No No: A Dockumentary, which premiered in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on all major streaming platforms. LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccortez/  

Chris Cortez

<div> <div>Virgil Beaston is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Powin Energy and has been with the company since 2011. Beaston has over 10 years of experience in the battery and energy storage industry and is often asked to speak publicly as a subject matter expert. He views business and the rapidly growing storage sector from a unique perspective as he previously was a patent attorney at an intellectual property law firm and then was a co-founder and CTO of a start-up company that made energy storage products prior to joining Powin Energy. In 2008, Beaston moved to Shenzhen China and setup and ran a small factory that designed and produced energy storage products. He continued to live and work in Shenzhen until joining Powin Energy as its Chief Technology Officer. Beaston is an inventor, lawyer, and engineer with impressive academic credentials, and his many experiences over the past 10 years have given him a unique insight into what it takes to commercialize the new clean-tech technologies that are helping to fuel the green economy.</div> <div> </div> <div><strong>LINKS</strong></div> <div>LinkedIn: <a class="textEditor-link" href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/virgil-beaston-65703956/" target= "_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-is-link= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/virgil-beaston-65703956/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/virgil-beaston-65703956/</a></div> </div> <div> </div>

 Virgil Beaston is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Powin Energy and has been with the company since 2011. Beaston has over 10 years of experience in the battery and energy storage industry and is often asked to speak publicly as a subject matter expert. He views business and the rapidly growing storage sector from a unique perspective as he previously was a patent attorney at an intellectual property law firm and then was a co-founder and CTO of a start-up company that made energy storage products prior to joining Powin Energy. In 2008, Beaston moved to Shenzhen China and setup and ran a small factory that designed and produced energy storage products. He continued to live and work in Shenzhen until joining Powin Energy as its Chief Technology Officer. Beaston is an inventor, lawyer, and engineer with impressive academic credentials, and his many experiences over the past 10 years have given him a unique insight into what it takes to commercialize the new clean-tech technologies that are helping to fuel the green economy.   LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virgil-beaston-65703956/  

Virgil Beaston

<div>Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males.</div> <div> </div> <div>As CTO, Dan is responsible for site partner integration, trouble-shooting, brand development, SEO (search engine optimization), research, and development for all Digital Trends platforms. Along with his business partner and fellow co-founder Ian Bell, the pair launched Digital Trends in 2006 and continued to build and fortify DigitalTrends.com, which currently attracts roughly 25MM visitors per month. More recently, Dan was instrumental in the creation of DT Español to serve Spanish-speaking consumers and The Manual, a men’s lifestyle site dedicated to news and information on men’s grooming, health and wellness, travel, food and fashion.</div> <div> </div> <div>LinkedIn: <a class="textEditor-link" href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-is-link= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/</a></div> <div>Twitter: <a class="textEditor-link" href= "https://twitter.com/dangaul/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-is-link= "https://twitter.com/dangaul/">https://twitter.com/dangaul/</a></div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <div>Learn how to scale your engineering team with <a href= "https://trhou.se/podcast">TalentPath</a> by Treehouse.</div> </div> </div>

Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males.   As CTO, Dan is responsible for site partner integration, trouble-shooting, brand development, SEO (search engine optimization), research, and development for all Digital Trends platforms. Along with his business partner and fellow co-founder Ian Bell, the pair launched Digital Trends in 2006 and continued to build and fortify DigitalTrends.com, which currently attracts roughly 25MM visitors per month. More recently, Dan was instrumental in the creation of DT Español to serve Spanish-speaking consumers and The Manual, a men’s lifestyle site dedicated to news and information on men’s grooming, health and wellness, travel, food and fashion.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dangaul/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse. 

Dan Gaul

<p>Raj Gupta is a Silicon Valley executive with over 25yrs of experience in leading product strategy, innovation, and global software development teams at technology startups as well as multinationals like Oracle Corporation. He is currently the CTO and SVP Engineering at Navis Inc., a leader in supply chain and maritime software, where he leads all product and engineering activities. Under his leadership Navis is leading the way for fully autonomous port operations and shipping, and making global trade smarter, safer, and more sustainable for everyone.</p> <p>Prior to Navis, Mr. Gupta was the SVP Engineering at Nice Systems, a leader in CRM and Customer Experience software. At Nice Systems he led the transformation of the company’s On-premise products to SaaS/Cloud applications and significantly increased the global footprint of the Nice Systems. Before Nice Systems, he spent a decade at Oracle Corporation in various executive roles leading product development organizations responsible for $350M to over $2B in annual revenue and driving the development process for Oracle’s next generation Fusion applications. Mr. Gupta has also held executive roles at technology startups in Silicon Valley leading them through high growth, innovation, acquisitions, and successful IPO.</p> <p>Mr. Gupta has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University, has a certificate in Executive Leadership from the graduate school of business at Stanford University, and a Master of Arts degree in Management from Harvard University.</p> <p>LINKS<br /> LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajguptausa/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajguptausa/</a></p> <div> <div>Learn how to scale your engineering team with <a href= "https://trhou.se/podcast">TalentPath</a> by Treehouse</div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/Twitter">Twitter</a></div> </div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/podInsta">Instagram</a></div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a></div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/Facebook">Facebook</a></div> <p> </p>

Raj Gupta is a Silicon Valley executive with over 25yrs of experience in leading product strategy, innovation, and global software development teams at technology startups as well as multinationals like Oracle Corporation. He is currently the CTO and SVP Engineering at Navis Inc., a leader in supply chain and maritime software, where he leads all product and engineering activities. Under his leadership Navis is leading the way for fully autonomous port operations and shipping, and making global trade smarter, safer, and more sustainable for everyone. Prior to Navis, Mr. Gupta was the SVP Engineering at Nice Systems, a leader in CRM and Customer Experience software. At Nice Systems he led the transformation of the company’s On-premise products to SaaS/Cloud applications and significantly increased the global footprint of the Nice Systems. Before Nice Systems, he spent a decade at Oracle Corporation in various executive roles leading product development organizations responsible for $350M to over $2B in annual revenue and driving the development process for Oracle’s next generation Fusion applications. Mr. Gupta has also held executive roles at technology startups in Silicon Valley leading them through high growth, innovation, acquisitions, and successful IPO. Mr. Gupta has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University, has a certificate in Executive Leadership from the graduate school of business at Stanford University, and a Master of Arts degree in Management from Harvard University. LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajguptausa/ Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Raj Gupta

<p>Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males.</p> <p>As CTO, Dan is responsible for site partner integration, trouble-shooting, brand development, SEO (search engine optimization), research, and development for all Digital Trends platforms. Along with his business partner and fellow co-founder Ian Bell, the pair launched Digital Trends in 2006 and continued to build and fortify DigitalTrends.com, which currently attracts roughly 25MM visitors per month. More recently, Dan was instrumental in the creation of DT Español to serve Spanish-speaking consumers and The Manual, a men’s lifestyle site dedicated to news and information on men’s grooming, health and wellness, travel, food and fashion.</p> <p>LINKS<br /> LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/<br /> </a>Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/dangaul/">https://twitter.com/dangaul/</a></p> <div> <div>Learn how to scale your engineering team with <a href= "https://trhou.se/podcast">TalentPath</a> by Treehouse</div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/Twitter">Twitter</a></div> </div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/podInsta">Instagram</a></div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a></div> <div><a href="https://trhou.se/Facebook">Facebook</a></div>

Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech; its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual an aspirational-living site targeted to males. As CTO, Dan is responsible for site partner integration, trouble-shooting, brand development, SEO (search engine optimization), research, and development for all Digital Trends platforms. Along with his business partner and fellow co-founder Ian Bell, the pair launched Digital Trends in 2006 and continued to build and fortify DigitalTrends.com, which currently attracts roughly 25MM visitors per month. More recently, Dan was instrumental in the creation of DT Español to serve Spanish-speaking consumers and The Manual, a men’s lifestyle site dedicated to news and information on men’s grooming, health and wellness, travel, food and fashion. LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangaul/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dangaul/ Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Ryan Carson, CEO and Founder of Treehouse, interviews the world’s leading engineering managers - so we can learn from their experience and ideas.

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