Jim is Head of Developer Advocacy at Pieces, focusing on enabling developers to be more productive by leveraging contextual awareness of not only the code they write, but the content the read and the conversations they have. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and lives in the Pacific North West of the USA. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer and engineering manager on back end, desktop, mobile and cloud applications across scientific software, banking, IoT and more. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written books on mobile development and IoT. He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 11-year-old who loves cats, so he has 2 cats. Above average Star Wars fan!

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbobbennett/

Website: https://pieces.app/

YouTube: @jimbobbennett

The podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Odysee, Apple Podcast, Pandora, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcast, Podcast Index, Podcast Addict, iHeartRadio, Listener Notes, Deezer, and RSS dot com.

TIMESTAMPS:

2:25 - Star Wars background chat

3:51 - How we met

5:55 - Favorite Star Wars movie

15:47 - Jim's Background

19:49 - Use cases for Pieces for Developers

23:23 - Comparing Pieces to other AI co-pilots

25:24 - Comparing Microsoft Recall

29:06 - Impacts of AI and developer adoption

31:53 - AI hype for problems that don't exist

32:29 - Start-up product enablement

34:25 - AI auto apply tools

37:03 - Tech job market

39:05 - Should people continue learning to code

42:54 - AI company to write 8,000 books per year, but will anyone read?

45:04 - The Last Screenwriter movie trailer

47:04 - Challenges measuring developer productivity

51:49 - Is there a place for grumpy yet talented developers on a team?

55:03 - Success in a job is 80% soft skills, 20% technical skills

57:51 - Issues with live coding interviews

59:39 - Alternative ways to evaluate developers

1:04:00 - Benefits of the contract-to-hire model

1:06:03 - Running half marathons

1:10:53 - Habits that have led to Jim's success working from home

1:16:47 - Questions for a recruiter (importance of networking)

HOST:

Blake Williams - Founder / Headhunter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Robert Daigle is the Director of Global AI Business at Lenovo. He's a public speaker & visionary tech leader with over a decade of AI experience within startups to fortune 200 companies. He helped launch one of the first AI recruiting platforms in 2014 and now leads a global AI team supporting AI deployments around the world. He's a LinkedIn Top AI Voice with an MBA.

In this conversation, we explore the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, focusing on its implications for businesses, technology, and society. We discuss Robert's background in AI, Lenovo's strategic investments in the field, and the technical aspects of AI hardware. The conversation also delves into the rise of generative AI, the future of AI agents, and the importance of responsible AI practices.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdaigle/

Website: https://robertdaigle.com/

The podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Odysee, Apple Podcast, Pandora, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcast, Podcast Index, Podcast Addict, iHeartRadio, Listener Notes, Deezer, and RSS dot com.

TIMESTAMPS:

9:23 - Robert's background

15:58 - Where Lenovo fits into the AI ecosystem

21:19 - Emergence of NPUs on each device

32:51 - How Robert is using AI

36:30 - RAG Architecture Explained

40:45 - Agentic AI

45:37 - Human versus AI generated content

52:19 - AI adoption speed

54:09 - Corporate responsible AI committees

57:28 - AI power consumption concerns

58:51 - Trend Towards Selective AI Usage

1:00:23 - High-efficiency liquid cooled datacenters

HOST:

Hosted by Blake Williams, Founder / Headhunter @ Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Imanuel Babadostov is the Lead BISO at Blackbaud. He has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience in various industries including Government, Healthcare, Managed Services, and SaaS. He is a leader, presenter, trainer, writer, scrum master, and highly certified - CISSP, CEH, GDAT, GSLC, GSEC, CHFI, GMON, Security+. He is focused on performing the role of a BISO - Business Information Security Officer. He is on a mission to clarify what the role entails, how to better the company using it, and define the concrete skills and KPIs one can use to improve as a BISO or a BISO team lead.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imanuelb2/

Website: https://ibabadostov.wixsite.com/the-blog

The podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Odysee, Apple Podcast, Pandora, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcast, Podcast Index, Podcast Addict, iHeartRadio, Listener Notes, Deezer, and RSS dot com.

TIMESTAMPS:

1:50 - Imanuel's Background

3:58 - What's Happening in Cyber

4:28 - Cyber Skills Gap

5:49 - The BISO role, what is it?

8:17 - BISO versus GRC

10:02 - How BISO's Divide Responsibilities

11:23 - How to Find Your Way Into a BISO role

13:15 - Apprenticeship Program Advocacy

15:12 - Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

16:56 - Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity

19:10 - Is Work More Stressful at Home or In-Office?

22:21 - Amazon's RTO 5 Days Per Week

23:31 - Layoffs from AI

24:07 - How Imanuel is using AI

27:51 - Hackers Using AI to Their Advantage

30:32 - ChatGPT o1

31:15 - AI's Mad Cow Effect

32:32 - Did The Movie Wall-E Predict Our Future?

33:44 - Black Mirror on Netflix

36:24 - Idiocracy Movie & Concern for Our Kids

45:36 - Ask Me Anything - Recruiter Edition

57:46 - Love, Death, Robots on Netflix

59:23 - How to Measure BISO Performance

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Shankar Viswanathan serves as Senior Director, Head of Cloud Security at Credit Karma. He has over 15 years of experience in IAM, Applied Crypto, Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, especially in the FinTech industry. He's a Startup Advisor and Forbes Technology Council Member.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankarnviswanathan/

TIMESTAMPS:

2:39 - How he landed in Cybersecurity

4:07 - Forbes Technology Council

5:06 - What is Applied Crypto?

6:58 - What's happening in cyber?

9:14 - Non-Human Identity Security

22:24 - What Keeps Cyber Talent Engaged & Happy

26:20 - His Approach to Hiring Junior Level

28:54 - What tools would he learn first?

30:07 - Sources of threat intel

32:10 - Favorite Movies (it's not Star Wars)

33:12 - Hiring

33:46 - Questions for a recruiter

37:02 - Resume Reviews & Coaching

38:44 - Why AI Can't Write Your Resume For You

40:35 - What's led to his success 44:57 - Cruise Ship Mucker Story

48:34 - How he deals with stress of the job

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Find Your Next Job / Find Your Next Hire with Hyperdrive Recruiting

Website: https://hyperdriverecruiting.comj

Brandon Mathis is a talented Full Stack Developer in Raleigh, NC currently serving as CTO of vTestify. He runs Triangle Devs, a prominent local meetup/slack/discord group. He is a lifelong tinkerer, coder & product builder. He's also a husband, dad, gamer, and writer. His has a focus on web development using: Javascript (Node, React, ect), Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, Chef), DevOps (AWS, Ansible, Docker), Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Design, REST API Development, and SQL/NoSQL. If you're trying to build high quality software products at scale and planning to leverage local Raleigh talent you should start by scheduling a conversation with Brandon.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathisbrandon/

Website: www.brandonmathis.me

GitHub: https://github.com/BrandonMathis

Triangle Devs: https://triangledevelopers.com/

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/triangle-devs/

TIMESTAMPS:

1:36 - Favorite movie

5:28 - Star Wars chat

9:07 - Acolyte cancellation

13:57 - How he landed in software engineering

21:26 - Golang vs Rust

24:59 - His favorite language

26:58 - JavaScript vs TypeScript

29:57 - Where he recommends newbies start coding

33:09 - Would he recommend getting in a dev career

35:05 - GitHub Go-Pilot

37:21 - Dev skills becoming part of life

43:03 - Mac or PC

46:15 - Alfred on Mac

46:43 - Spotlight on iPhone

51:28 - His recent focus on Cybersecurity

54:34 - Polyfill.js hack

58:48 - Reallocation from QA to Cybersecurity

1:00:17 - Why can't devs test their own code

1:04:44 - No size company is immune to cyber attacks

1:05:34 - Ethics of storing passwords properly

1:08:26 - What happened to Agile / Scrum

1:13:32 - Best way to measure dev performance

1:19:53 - Cheaply made Agencyware vs American Made Software

1:28:14 - Roller skates vs Rollerblades

1:29:50 - Snowblades

1:31:18 - Future of AI writing code

1:34:19 - What Shopify did to eCommerce development

1:37:49 - Gen Z never leaves social media

1:39:00 - Where can you find Brandon

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Sarah Choudhary is CEO of Aridian Technologies and ICE Innovations. She started her career in ETL development and has become a visionary AI innovator, tech leader, writer, and Forbes Council Member. She has a Ph.D. in Data Science and current spearheading the development of several AI applications. She has a newsletter called TechSpectrum where she writes about navigating VR, AI, ML, Data & Cybersecurity and offers a curated exploration into the world of AI.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahchoudhary/

Website: www.sarahchoudhary.com

TIMESTAMPS:

6:30 - Sarah's background

10:07 - Pursuing her PhD in data science

13:10 - What she learned analyzing life expectancy data

19:03 - Bias in AI algorithms

28:26 - Deepfakes

30:43 - Using AI in school

33:15 - Her time at Ernst & Young

35:41 - What will we do when AI takes jobs

40:09 - Quantum Computing

49:26 - Sarah's Start-Ups - ICE Rides & iChef

51:24 - ICE Innovations

1:03:49 - Microsoft Fabric

1:06:55 - Sprawberry

1:10:48 - Advice for transitioning into AI jobs

1:19:27 - How she found a new level of confidence

1:23:38 - How to handle a low ball offer

1:36:59 - Where to find Sarah

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Joe Aurilia is the SVP of Operations for Cyware, a threat intelligence sharing platform, SOAR platform, and cybersecurity managed servicing provider. He serves as the COO and CIO reporting directly to the CEO. He has over 20 years in technology, operations, and strategic planning, guiding teams and organizations to peak performance across diverse industries. He is an expert in building and scaling all aspects of company operations to meet mission and goals. He serves as an Executive Member and Membership Board Member for SIM (Society for Information Management) and a Executive Member and Raleigh (RDU) Steering Committee Leader for Pavilion - a global membership organization for high-growth operators. He is a GTM Advisor and public speaker available to help your organization optimize and grow.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephauriliajr/

Website: https://cyware.com/

TIMESTAMPS:

4:49 - If Aliens Asked Your Purpose Here

6:17 - Joe's Story

10:13 - New Market Trends

12:47 - New Trends in Contract Terms

14:57 - What's Happening In Cyber?

19:57 - What Makes Cyware Different?

22:10 - Challenges Running a 100% Remote Global Organization

24:27 - Optimist or Pessimist on AI?

29:38 - Who's Making Up All These Acronyms in Cyber?

31:33 - ISOA, ISAC, & CERTS - What are they?

33:44 - We Go Off Topic into Left Field

36:41 - 2024 Job Market

39:13 - Candidate Matching Challenges

43:39 - Benefits of Hiring Offshore

45:56 - SIM (Society for Information Management)

48:05 - Decision to Pursue the Renewable Energy Industry (2011-2019)

51:36 - Importance of Knowledge Base Curation

53:54 - Joe Favorite Interview Questions

56.06 - Personal Productivity & Efficiency Hacks

57:08 - Reclaim.ai

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

Website: https://hyperdriverecruiting.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakewilliams4u/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hyperdriverecruiting

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blakewilliams4u/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blakewilliams4u

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/BlakeWilliams4u

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Daniel Miessler is the Founder of Unsupervised Learning. Creator of https://fabricai.app, and open-source framework for Augmenting humans with AI, and https://threshold.app, a new AI-based way of finding the best content onlilne. 25 years experience in Cybersecurity. Active coder, builder in the AI and Security space (langchain, langraph, AWS step functions, local models, business context use-cases). Built and ran the business intelligence team / product for Information Security at Apple. Built and ran the Vulnerability Management and AppSec at Robinhood. Active programmer (github.com/danielmiessler).

GUEST:

Daniel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmiessler/

Newsletter Website: https://danielmiessler.com/subscribe

Fabric: https://fabricai.app

Threshold: https://threshold.app

Substrate: https://danielmiessler.com/p/introducing-substrate

Timestamps:

4:10 - How He Landed in Cybersecurity

5:25 - Advice to Job Seekers

6:32 - Unsupervised Learning

7:07 - How He Manages His Time

9:18 - Why He Shifted from FTE to Solopreneur

11:38 - How He Prioritizes

13:39 - Human 3.0

16:15 - Augmented

17:42 - The Moment He Wanted Me Dead

18:26 - Fabric

20:06 - Threshold

21:48 - Substrate

26:05 - AI's Predictable Path & DA's

30:36 - How He Would Configure His DA's

33:15 - Jobs & Recruiting

36:11 - Should Recruiters Find New Professions

45:45 - AI Interviews & Veton.ai

52:09 - Bumble

53:26 - Lattice Introduces Digital Employee

54:58 - Ask Me Anything

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u

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Find Your Next Job / Find Your Next Hire with Hyperdrive Recruiting

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