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Julia Austin is the CTO of DigitalOcean and a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School of Entrepreneurial Management.  Hear about her experiences scaling at rocket ship speed leading DigitalOcean’s engineering and product teams. Find Julia on twitter at @austinfish and find DigitalOcean at DigitalOcean.com Continue Reading

Andrew Useckas is the CTO of Threat-X; a 10 person startup based out of Colorado that provides Web Application Firewalls as a Service. Join Andrew as we discuss the most relevant threats to software startup companies today and we learn how he and his team built a next-gen security company. Find Andrew on twitter at https://twitter.com/daronin and Threat-X at https://threat-x.com/ Favorite Quotes: An engineer has to be a self starter. I look for someone who can really take initiative; someone who can take a project and make it their own A quality I look for in hires is ability to pivot as necessary. What tool you use depends upon the task. Things always improve and you have to be flexible. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

Ingrid Alongi is the co-founder of Quickleft, a software development firm in Boulder Colorado which was acquired by Cognizant in March of 2016.  In this episode, Ingrid takes us through the founding story of QuickLeft, and how QuickLeft used Net Promoter Scores to drive great outcomes for end-customers. Find Ingrid on Twitter at @electromute and check out QuickLeft at QuickLeft.com. Favorite Quotes: My biggest engineering value is pragmatism and collaboration. Things get done better when you work as a team. The best solution is the one that launches. Its really important to be able to communicate ideas, and to sell your ideas; even if the client is not technical. We invest in speaking at conferences and blog posts a lot. If people write software on time and clients are happy, then that’s a success. It doesn’t matter as much if the code they write is poetry. I’ve seen the ebb and flow of people wanting more structure and then less structure. Organizations today are much flatter than they used to be. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

We’ve got a special bonus episode for ya’ll this week. Episode 0.8 of our Podcast was a Boulder Startup Week talk about ZCash by it’s founder; Zooko Wilcox.  ZCash is a privacy centric blockchain. Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient, and amount of a transaction remain private. A lot of people are really excited about a blockchain that enables truly anonymous transactions on the web, and believe that ZCash could be a top 5 blockchain within a year.  ZCash has an all star roster of cryptographers; and they today in version 1.0.0; So I’m reposting our ZCash episode, episode 0.8. Continue Reading

Brandon Purcell is the CTO of SpatialKey; a leading geospatial intelligence analytics platform. SpatialKey started as a proof of concept prototype in 2007 and has grown into a full fledged profitable business over the last seven years. Listen to this episode to hear SpatialKey’s founding journey; from finding a core customer who was willing to pay for their product, to growing into a SAAS provider serving several prominent paying customers. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

Learn about how Patrick McKenzie combined his technical skills with marketing/sales skills to launch & grow several successful internet businesses. Patrick is the creator of Bingo Card Creator. He learned marketing and sales to launch and grow Kalzumeus Software; He has worked with 37signals, Fog Creek Software, and is now in content & community at Stripe. Find Patrick on twitter at @patio11 and listen to Patrick’s podcast here. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

(review this episode on iTunes) Jud Valeski was co-founder of Gnip (acquired by Twitter), a real-time data portability software initiative. From client-side consumer facing products, to large scale back-end infrastructure projects, he has enjoyed working with technology for over twenty years. He’s been a part of engineering, product, and M&A teams at IBM, Netscape, onebox.com, and AOL. He has played a central role in the release of a wide range of products used by tens of millions of users worldwide. Find Jud on twitter at @jvaleski and at http://one.valeski.org/. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe. Continue Reading

(review this episode on iTunes) Join Kevin & Miles for a special announcement episode:  We’ve changed our podcast name! Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

(review this episode on iTunes) Maria Gutierrez and Glenn Vanderburg lead Living Social’s distributed engineering teams for the past 5 years. They’re both now at different companies, and still at different geographic locations, but in this episode of our podcast, they sit down at their respective locations with us over Skype to talk about how to hire, manage, and lead distributed engineering teams. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe. Continue Reading

(review this episode on iTunes) This week’s episode features Miles Cook, CTO of Blurrt. Blurrt is a software platform that allows users to collect, listen, showcase, analyse and engage with their social audiences in real time. In this episode, we talk about the growth needed to advance from a Senior Dev role to a CTO role. We also discuss coaching Junior Engineers into being productive in a fast paced startup environment. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

(review this episode on iTunes) We’re taking this week to make some announcements and talk about the progress we’ve made thus far on our show. We’re really happy with how far we’ve come, what we’ve learned, and what we’ve got on the horizons. Tune in to hear our announcements and be sure to subscribe for new episode announcements at StartupCTOio/subscribe!

(review this episode on iTunes) Travis Kimmel is the CEO of GitPrime.  GitPrime analyzes a team’s codebase to quantify engineering progress. They make it easy to identify engineers who are stuck or bogged down with refactoring, and quantify the amount of effort spent paying down technical debt. Find Travis on twitter at @traviskimmel. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

(review this episode on iTunes) This week’s episode is with Brian Pontarelli, the founder and CEO of Inversoft. Brian is an engineer who bootstrapped Inversoft out of nights and weekends to become a profitable business without taking any VC funding. He’s still active daily in their code base, but has had to navigate the business world as an engineer to get his company to profitability. Brian is also one of the organizers of Denver Startup Week, so we talk about that as well. Enjoy! Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

(review this episode on iTunes) The week’s episode features Mark Manes; Director of Mobile Development at Markit On Demand and organizer of the Colorado Virtual Reality Meetup.  Mark takes us through a state of the VR ecosystem and the different build options for Virtual Reality apps. Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.

(review this episode on iTunes) This week’s episode has Dan Mayer, the Director of Software Engineering at Off.Grid:Electric. Dan manages a software team distributed all over the world to deliver software for hardware that runs in Africa, all from his office in Colorado. He discusses the challenges of remote working across the entire globe, staying on mission with your end user in another continent, and his advice on how to get a group of remote developers to put out a fire in an efficient and quick method. Enjoy! Don’t miss out on future episodes! Subscribe quickly at StartupCTO.io/subscribe.