I spoke with Christos Matskas. Christos is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft working with the Identity Platform. After 2015, Christos started to do a lot of community speaking, conferences, user groups, blogging, open source contributions wh

John Calderaio - Painful Development

Jun 29th, 2021 35m 30s

I spoke with John Calderaio. John is as a technical writer currently working with Mosh Hamedani from Programming with Mosh. If you haven't heard about Mosh, he is a great content and course creator. John writes for Mosh's website. But John's st

Rob Richardson - The Client/Server Cycles

Jun 22nd, 2021 50m 59s

I spoke with Rob Richardson. Rob is a veteran developer with over 18 years of experience in the field. Currently he works as a Developer Advocate for Cyral. Originally coming from an Industrial Design graduation, he quickly moved on to a Master

Garrick Crouch - From Addiction to Coding

Jun 15th, 2021 40m 38s

I spoke with Garrick Crouch. Garrick is a Software Engineer working for Deka Solutions. Technology wise, his focus is React in the frontend and Laravel in the backend, which is a combination that he has been working with for a few years now. Bu

Jan - Shopify and Freelancing

Jun 8th, 2021 40m 15s

I spoke with Jan. Jan is a Shopify ecommerce specialist based in Germany. Originally graduated as a mechanical engineer, he started his career with robotics, developing automation robots for product manufacturing assembly lines. However, after

Mark Meritt Jr - Not Your Everyday Developer

Jun 1st, 2021 34m 25s

I spoke with Mark Meritt Jr. Mark is an app developer and college professor here in Toronto, Canada. I got really impressed when I saw on his LinkedIn profile that he is currently working in a bunch of other local colleges that I have never wor

Ihab El-Waly - Coding and Digital Marketing

May 25th, 2021 34m 53s

I spoke with Ottawa based Ihab El-Waly. Ihab has a Computer Science background, but nowadays he works mostly with Digital Marketing. Ihab caught my attention as he was the one who reached out to me to be part of the podcast. Usually I'm the one

Cristian Florea - Coach For Aspiring Developers

May 18th, 2021 1h

This was a different episode and we had a live audience asking questions. I think we will be doing this more and more over time and I would love to hear your opinion about this format. Do you like it? Don't like it? Hit me up on LinkedIn or Twi

Chris Eidhof - All Things Swift Programming

May 11th, 2021 50m 23s

I spoke with Chris Eidhof. Together with his business partner Florian Kugler, he runs objc.io where you can find books, courses, videos and resources in general about iOS and macOS development. Nowadays it focus mostly on Swift, but at some poi

Matt & Mike - Running a Web Dev Agency

May 4th, 2021 52m 52s

I spoke with the dual Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan. Together they run a web development agency in Hamilton, Canada called "Digital Dynasty Design". Beyond that, they also run their own podcast show called "HTML All The Things" where they talk a

Jerome Hardaway - Vets Who Code

Apr 27th, 2021 57m 13s

I spoke with Jerome Hardaway. I caught Jerome in a transition. He just started working at Microsoft about 2 months ago as a Software Engineer. This is awesome on its own, but beyond that, Jerome is the founder of Vets Who Code, a non-profit org

David Jorjani - Product Builder and People Developer

Apr 20th, 2021 42m 10s

I spoke with David Jorjani. David is Director of Product at Ideal.com and Instructor at the University of Toronto. Great to see a professional like David with a foot in Academia and another one in Startups. At UofT, David wants to help students

David Poindexter - The Business and Code Combo

Apr 13th, 2021 49m 39s

I have spoken with my good friend David Poindexter. David is the founder of nvisionative, a digital agency located in Mooresville, North Carolina. I have know David for many years as part of my involvement in an open source community called DNN

Andy Hunt - The Pragmatic Programmer

Apr 6th, 2021 58m 15s

I spoke with Andy Hunt. Andy is one of the 17 authors who wrote the Agile Manifesto back in 2001. 2 years earlier he wrote, together with Dave Thomas one of the most seminal programming books called "The Pragmatic Programmer". The book has been

Juri Strumpflohner - Coding and Martial Arts

Mar 30th, 2021 51m 46s

I spoke with Juri Strumpflohner. Juri is a JavaScript Architect working for Narwhal Technologies. Beyond that, Juri is a Google Developer Expert, title that he got as a result of his intense involvement with Angular. Juri is also an Instructor

Hemil Patel - Being Shy, Private and YouTuber?!

Mar 23rd, 2021 41m 18s

I spoke with Hemil Patel. Hemil is a Front-end Architect but the reason why I came across his name was because of his YouTube channel called Techsith. It focus on front-end technologies like Javascript, React, CSS and even job interview prepara

Taylor Desseyn - Recruiter Against Recruiters

Mar 16th, 2021 59m 10s

I spoke with Taylor Desseyn. Taylor is a Sr. Recruiter at Vaco. He has been working specifically with software engineers and developers for the past 6 years. First off, I want to apologise to Taylor for mispronouncing his name some many times.

Monarch Wadia - Hackathons And Mintbean

Mar 9th, 2021 57m 41s

I spoke with Monarch Wadia. Monarch is the founder of Mintbean, an organization based here in Toronto. They focus on helping developers getting experience by taking part in Hackathons, Webinars and Workshops. The idea behind Mintbean is very mu

Mariot Tsitoara - Git, GitHub and Pomodoro

Feb 23rd, 2021 29m 38s

I spoke with Mariot Tsitoara. He is a Full Stack Developer focused on React and Python. Mariot lives in Bordeaux, France but he is originally from Madagascar. I was very excited to be speaking with someone from Madagascar for the first time in

Preetam & Sankalp - Micro-SaaS & Marketplace

Feb 16th, 2021 55m 42s

I spoke with Preetam Nath and Sankalp Jonna. They are the founders of DelightChat, a platform helping Shopify businesses with their customer service needs. I came across Preetam after reading his blog post about Micro-Saas. The concept grabbed

Victoria Lo - From Blogging To PayPal

Feb 9th, 2021 37m 55s

Do you think that blogging is done? No longer relevant? Too many people already doing it? My guest today started blogging a year ago and it has already helped her to land a job with PayPal. I spoke with Victoria Lo. Victoria is a consistent blo

Joe Eames - ng-conf Organizer and Educator

Feb 2nd, 2021 42m 59s

I spoke with Joe Eames. Joe is an educator with over 20 courses published on Pluralsight. When you look at his courses, you will quickly realize that Joe focus a lot on Test Driven Development and Angular. He has also acquired Thinkster a few y

Barry Luijbregts - 200 Things Developers Should Know

Feb 2nd, 2021 44m 16s

I spoke with Barry Luijbregts. Barry is a Pluralsight author with over 20 courses ranging from Cloud Design and Azure to Blazor, .NET and Front-end Development. Barry had various different phases of his career starting as part of a consulting c

Ido Shamun - daily.dev, All Coding News In One Place

Jan 26th, 2021 38m 52s

I spoke with Ido Shamun. Ido is the co-founder, CTO and, for now, the solo developer of daily.dev. daily.dev is an aggregator about development news, built as a Google Chrome extension, which gets feeds from all major tech news outlets includin

Eric Simons - Coding Online with StackBlitz

Jan 19th, 2021 42m 44s

I spoke with Eric Simons. Eric is the CEO of StackBlitz, an online browser based IDE where you can start coding on any front-end framework is seconds. I personally use it when I'm teaching full-stack development using Angular or React. Eric is