Talking Culture Podcast – B-Grade Media

Season Two, Episode Two – Michael Bright

Q. Wade Billings — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Michael is a Principal Software Engineer at BambooHR and the founder of Continuous Confidence Consulting. He consults with technology companies to improve their processes and culture by utilizing the principles of Continuous Confidence in their daily work.

Michael’s philosophies help engineers build and deliver software smoothly and repeatably by combining Continuous Confidence and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Michael is the author of the CI/CD workflow tool Rapid Framework.

Guest Social Media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/continuousconfi
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ContinuousConfidence
Medium: https://medium.com/@continuousconfidence

Season Two, Episode One – Daniel Leon

Q. Wade Billings — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Welcome to season two of Talking Culture! My guest for episode one is Daniel Leon, who spent over a decade in the airline industry and is now fully immersed in South Florida’s IT Solutions sector. Daniel firmly believes organizational success hinges on fostering inclusive environments and advocates for diverse teams’ transformative power.

Season One, Episode Five – Tobias Mende

Q. Wade Billings — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:54:45 +0000

Tobias is an experienced consultant, coach, and mentor for engineering leadership and developer experience with over a decade of experience. He was the driving force behind the Developer Experience Team at BRYTER, leading the successful transition to continuous deployments. He is dedicated to helping software companies build high-performing engineering organizations and teams, leveraging his expertise in engineering leadership and developer experience. With an inherent passion for software craft, Tobias is committed to enabling companies and individuals to create software with excellence and joy.

Season One, Episode Four – Michael Chaoui

Q. Wade Billings — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 02:50:57 +0000

Michael Chaoui is the Founder and CEO of Atlas One Security, an information security consultancy specializing in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), with deep knowledge of building and sustaining customer trust programs. As Atlas One’s Principal Consultant, Michael’s experience has spanned across Big 4, FAANG, large multinational corporations, smaller public tech companies, and start-ups that grew at breakneck speed across various industries within the public and private sectors.

Season One, Episode Three – Detelina “Lina” Vassileva

Q. Wade Billings — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:44:26 +0000

My guest is Detelina “Lina” Vasileva. Lina graduated with a degree in Psychology in 2008 and has worked in IT since 2006. To this day, Lina is on a mission to help people strike the right balance of technology, processes, and people to solve business problems. Her mission to create work conditions which allow people to be themselves, engaged, and productive is inspiring, and I am happy to share it with you, our wonderful listeners.

Season One, Episode Two – Joao Ventura

Q. Wade Billings — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 22:33:30 +0000

Joao is a site reliability engineer from Portugal who has worked in many different environments. Joao’s career began in a Portuguese microelectronics company as a test engineer. He discovered that he was getting more of a kick from automating instruments than from the actual results, and decided to pursue a career in software development. Currently, he is at BetterUp as a Site Reliability Engineer, where he builds much of the foundation the company runs on.

Season One, Episode One – Steve Dwire

Q. Wade Billings — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:11:52 +0000

In more than twenty years of leading software engineering and IT teams running the gamut from startup to Fortune 500, Steve Dwire discovered that many technology leaders struggle as they advance. When they become managers, they think they’re getting a promotion and are surprised to learn they are switching careers. They expect a change of responsibility, but they do not expect how much their identity changes. Each step up brings new challenges, and their struggles with those transitions take a toll on the health of the teams they lead.