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Major retailers from AllBirds to Alo Yoga to Glossier boost sales and increase customer loyalty with Endear’s CRM solution. To learn about the technology behind the scenes enabling omni-channel strategies at these large consumer brands, David Joy sat down with the CTO at Endear, JP Grace.
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Whether you need to send greeting cards or flowers, Moonpig makes personalized gifting for any occasion easy. But behind the simplicity of Moonpig’s platform are complex technologies that enable the deep customization that customers love. To talk about the architecture behind Moonpig, Principal Engineer Alexis Lowe sat down with our host David Joy.
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Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton plays a pivotal role in keeping federal agencies including the United States Department of Defense and the VA on the cutting edge. In this episode, host David Joy is joined by Booz Allen Hamilton’s Sr. Solutions Architect, Brian Johnson, for a discussion on the exciting, intricate world of data analysis as well as expert insights on solutions architecture.
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Madalina Tanasie's career has been led by her belief that technology should be purposeful. Embracing choices that reflected this conviction, her professional path ultimately led to the C-suite.
David sits down with Madalina to discuss the always-evolving technology landscape and the recent advancements in AI, especially in the context of her work at Collibra.
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Years before Rod Senra became VP of Engineering, he started out in academia in Brazil. He recalls the early days of Python and teaching computer engineering to his students. Today, he leads as VP of Engineering at Loadsmart, a logistics technology company helping shippers, suppliers and carriers to move goods more efficiently.
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With a growing library of media properties including CNET, Lonely Planet, and Bankrate, Red Ventures’ data platform has scaled from handling 16 million events per day to nearly 2 billion. To dive into the evolution of their architecture and understand how data effortlessly travels through their systems, our host David Joy sat down with Principal Software Engineer Majid Fatemian.
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Revolutionizing education with technology, and classrooms in particular, is no easy lift. But the right interactive tools and the ability to navigate the complexities of scaling in a market driven by digital advancements, is essential for success.
We hear all about the transformative journey of Kami, an education technology company, from Founder and CTO Jordan Thoms. He shares the company's evolution story in New Zealand, its early focus on teacher empowerment, and the pivotal moments in adapting its product direction based on the needs of the education community.
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In this best of 2023 episode, David Joy sits down with Brian Chambers, Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A Corporate.
Behind Chick-fil-A’s speedy service and chicken sandwiches, is a state-of-the-art architecture that collects over 1 billion data points per month. From its cloud infrastructure to the edge compute clusters running Kubernetes in each Chick-fil-A restaurant, the customer experience is the result of a thoughtfully designed, cloud-first, and zero-touch approach.
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