The Digital Native Podcast
Technology Podcasts
The Digital Native Podcast features Cloud and Technology thought leaders (internally and externally to Google), and highlights the innovative products they're building. Join host Ryan Anderson, as he talks to technology leaders about their journey, what they're seeing in the market, and advice they'd give to their younger selves. Ryan and many of the guests featured are based in the Pacific Northwest. **Click the YouTube Link above for the Video Podcast
Location:
United States
Description:
The Digital Native Podcast features Cloud and Technology thought leaders (internally and externally to Google), and highlights the innovative products they're building. Join host Ryan Anderson, as he talks to technology leaders about their journey, what they're seeing in the market, and advice they'd give to their younger selves. Ryan and many of the guests featured are based in the Pacific Northwest. **Click the YouTube Link above for the Video Podcast
Language:
English
Episodes
Episode 21: Matthew Porter, Sr Cloud Architect at DoiT International
7/7/2021
GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Matt Porter is a Sr Cloud Architect at DoiT International, a strategic partner for Google Cloud Platform. At DoiT, Matt designs and debugs cloud environment architectures and implementations for companies of all sizes and cloud scales who are looking to grow their business with big data-scale operations.
Prior to DoiT, Matt designed and engineered AWS-based solutions for Washington DC and other government clients, lead a team of bioinformaticians and computer scientists at...
Duration:00:40:16
Episode 20: Amr Awadallah, VP of Developer Relations at Google Cloud
4/21/2021
GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Amr Awadallah is a long time technology executive and founder. Now serving as the VP of Developer Relations at Google Cloud, Amr previously founded Cloudera and served as CTO for more than 11 yearas.
Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr (@awadallah) was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners. Prior to joining Accel, he served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data...
Duration:00:33:08
Episode 19: Bruno Aziza, Head of Data & Analytics at Google Cloud
2/2/2021
GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Bruno Aziza is a recognized leader in the Big Data Analytics World, and now runs Data & Analytics at Google Cloud. With a specialty in Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Bruno's mission is to scale Google's Data & Analytics Business by putting Customers FIRST.
Prior to Google, Aziza held management positions at Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Business Objects (SAP), and Sisense, and appeared on The Economist, Freakonomics, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and...
Duration:00:44:52
Episode 18: Jamie Davison, VP of Product at Looker
10/21/2020
GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Jamie Davidson is the VP of Product at Looker, a business intelligence and big data analytics platform acquired by Google Cloud for $2.6 Billion. Prior to working at Looker, Jamie was a partner at Redpoint Ventures, and served as the VP of Product at HotelTonight. Early in his career, Jamie worked at Google as a Product Manager for YouTube, and a quantitative analyst for the Google Search ad system.
Jamie attend Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree in Science...
Duration:00:48:59
Episode 17: J.R. Storment, President of FinOps Foundation, Ex-Co-Founder of Cloudability
9/30/2020
GUEST BIOGRAPHY
J.R. Storment is Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation (a program of the Linux Foundation), co-author of O'Reilly's book on cloud financial management called "Cloud FinOps, Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management", and was formerly the co-founder of Cloudability which was acquired by Apptio, where he served as the GM of Cloud & VP of Product.
J.R. has spent the last 25 years building web platforms and the last 10 working with hundreds of the largest cloud...
Duration:00:52:26
Episode 16: Henry Schuck, CEO & Founder of ZoomInfo
8/9/2020
Guest Biography
Henry Schuck is the CEO and Co-Founder of ZoomInfo (formerly DiscoverOrg). Having founded Zoominfo when he was 23, Henry has led the company on a rapid-growth path. ZoomInfo IPO'd in June, raising nearly $1 billion in new capital in the largest public debut by a tech company so far this year.
ZoomInfo helps sales and marketing teams find their next best customer, and supports go-to-market operations for over 3,000 businesses around the world. The company is headquartered in...
Duration:00:45:22
Episode 15: Poul Petersen, Chief Infrastructure Officer at BigML
7/30/2020
Guest Biography
Poul Petersen is the Chief Infrastructure Officer for BigML, a company based in Corvallis with the mission of making Machine Learning easy and beautiful for everyone.
With 20 plus years of experience building scalable and fault tolerant systems in data centers, Poul currently enjoys the benefits of programmatic infrastructure, hacking in python to run BigML with only a laptop and a cloud.
Poul has an MS degree in Mathematics as well as BS degrees in Mathematics, Physics...
Duration:00:51:40
Episode 14: Jordan Tigani, Director of Product Management for Google BigQuery
7/23/2020
Guest Biography:
Jordan Tigani is the Chief Product Officer at MemSQL. Until recently, (and at the time of this interview) Jordan was the Director of Product Management for Google BigQuery, where he was one of the founding engineers in 2010.
Jordan has more than 20 years of professional software development experience (10 of them creating and developing BigQuery). Other previous jobs have ranged from working on machine learning at an advertising startup to Microsoft Research to working at...
Duration:00:56:15
Episode 13: Tisson Mathew, CEO, Skypoint Cloud
7/2/2020
Guest Biography
Tisson Mathew is the CEO of Skypoint Cloud, an all-in-one unified customer data and privacy platform. Prior to SkyPoint, Tisson served as the Chief Technology Officer of Cambia Health Solutions, parent company to a family of health care businesses, including Oregon’s largest health insurer.
Earlier in his career, Tisson led the team at Amazon that built and operated the Amazon logistics technology platform that powers Amazon Prime Now, Amazon Fresh and Amazon Flex, while...
Duration:00:59:58
Episode 12: Aparna Sinha, Director of Product Management, Developer Platforms at Google Cloud
6/14/2020
Guest Biography
Aparna Sinha is the Director of Product Management at Google Cloud. Named one of the "Power Women in Cloud" by Forbes, and a strategic thought leader in Enterprise Software, Aparna has a track record for creating new revenue streams and building competitive advantage through technical and go-to-market innovation. She currently runs the Developer Platforms business.
At Google, Aparna has worked on Anthos, Kubernetes, Android, ChromeOS and Play. Before Google, she was...
Duration:00:51:21
Episode 11: Rick Turoczy, Founder of PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment)
6/8/2020
GUEST BIOGRAPHY
Rick Turoczy is the founder and editor of SiliconFlorist.com, and the co-founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). Portland tech companies who trace their roots to PIE include Airship, Cloudability, Lytics, and online banker Simple. Mildly obsessed with connecting dots (people) in the Portland, Oregon, startup community, Rick has been an advocate for startups in the Portland area for nearly 20 years. In addition to his work at PIE, Rick has advised the City of...
Duration:01:10:57
Episode 10: Sudhir Hasbe, Director of Product Management, Smart Analytics at Google Cloud
5/28/2020
Guest Biography
Sudhir Hasbe is an accomplished product management leader with over 20 years of experience building industry-leading products at startup and blue-chip companies. Currently the Director of Product Management for Google Cloud's Analytics Product Portfolio, his team is responsible for products like BigQuery, Dataflow, DataProc, DataPrep, PubSub and Composer.
Prior to Google, Sudhir built a high performing team that transformed zulily and enabled them to be data driven, and led...
Duration:00:47:09
Episode 9: Janice Little, VP of Engineering at SheerID
5/22/2020
Guest Biography
Janice is the VP of Engineering at SheerID, an Identity Marketing platform that identifies and acquires consumer tribes like military, students, and teachers with personalized offers. Janice is a software professional with 20 years of management and engineering experience. Prior to SheerID, she was an engineering leader at Lunar Logic. Based in Eugene, Oregon (aka The Silicon Shire), she and the team at SheerID are a great example of a new era of startups, doing innovative...
Duration:00:29:12
Episode 8: Jeff Lutzenberger, VP of Engineering at onX
5/14/2020
Guest Biography:
Jeff is the VP of Engineering at onX. OnX is the provider of the onX HUNT mobile app and industry leader in mobile mapping technology for outdoor adventurers.
Jeff is a a technologist with experience in mobile development, numerical programming, 3D rendering systems, healthcare and GIS. He and the team at OnX are a great example of a new era of startups, doing innovative things outside of silicon valley. And what better place for an outdoors App than Montana?
Company...
Duration:00:34:46
Episode 7: Lak Lakshmanan, Head of Data Analytics and AI Solutions at Google Cloud
5/7/2020
Guest Biography:
Lak is Head for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud. His team builds software solutions for business problems using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning products. He is the author of Data Science on GCP (O'Reilly), BigQuery the Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) and Machine Learning on GCP and Advanced Machine Learning on GCP (Coursera). He founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab ML Immersion program. Before Google, Lak was a Director of Data Science at...
Duration:00:47:38
Episode 6: Dan Sullivan, Author of the official Google Cloud Study Guides
4/23/2020
Guest Biography:
Dan is a software architect and data scientist with extensive experience in data science, big data, machine learning, stream processing, and cloud architecture. Most recently, he is a principal engineer/architect at New Relic in Portland Oregon.
Dan is also the author of the official Google Cloud study guides for the Professional Architect, Professional Data Engineer, and Associate Cloud Engineer. He holds a Ph.D. in genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology with...
Duration:00:29:19
Episode 5: Phil Taylor, CTO at IGNW
4/16/2020
Guest Biography:
Phil is the CTO at IGNW, a digital strategies and consulting firm based in Portland, Oregon. A self proclaimed "geek with a business mind," over the last 20 years Phil has been building software products for both the private industry and startups, several of which has founded.
Phil is a strong believer that the market will shape your product, if you will just listen to what your customers want. He subscribes to the lean startup philosophy and agile software development...
Duration:00:38:32
Episode 4: Dan Gaul & Brandon Clark, CTO and Director of Engineering at Digital Trends
4/13/2020
Guest Biographies:
Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends (www.http://digitaltrends.com), DT Español (http://es.digitaltrends.com) and The Manual (http://www.themanual.com/).
Brandon Clark the Director of Engineering at Digital Trends, and a jack of all...
Duration:00:48:28
Episode 3: Mike Herrick, SVP Technology at Airship
3/23/2020
Guest Biography:
Mike is the SVP Technology at Airship. Mike is a passionate and collaborative product and engineering leader, who consistently finds a way to deliver products that his customers love. In his role at Airship, Mike leads Technology organization comprised of Product & Design, Engineering, & Infrastructure teams.
Company Overview:
Founded in 2009 as a pioneer in push notifications, Airship now gives brands the user-level data, engagement channels, AI orchestration and...
Duration:00:35:44
Episode 2: Erik Onnen, CTO at Bumped.com
3/16/2020
Guest Biography:
Erik is the CTO at Bumped, a platform that rewards customers in fractional shares of stock. A well known startup tech executive, Erik helped build out the infrastructure in leadership positions at Jive Software, Airship, and most recently Cloudability. Erik has lived in Portland, Oregon since 2006.
Company Overview:
Bumped is a platform that gives banks, brands and businesses the ability to reward customers in fractional shares of stock. Our mission is to help build...
Duration:00:33:51