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Conversations w/ the gurus of RVA's tech scene, including start-up founders, corporate execs, and world-class engineers. Hosted by deep learning diver + armchair movie critic - Zak Brown.

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Conversations w/ the gurus of RVA's tech scene, including start-up founders, corporate execs, and world-class engineers. Hosted by deep learning diver + armchair movie critic - Zak Brown.

    Brett Truelove + Collin McCarter

    Brett Truelove + Collin McCarter

    Join Zak this week as he talks with Brett and Collin about differentiating data-centric roles in organizations at various stages of data maturity!

    Guests:
    Collin McCarter, Data Scientist and Brett Truelove, Analytic Engineer from Northwestern Mutual

    • 38 min
    Jules Damji, Lead Developer Advocate on the Ray team at Anyscale

    Jules Damji, Lead Developer Advocate on the Ray team at Anyscale

    In this weeks episode, I’ll be talking with Jules Damji, Lead Developer Advocate on the Ray team at Anyscale, about the ever evolving landscape of enterprise grade distributed computing. From Hadoop to Spark and now to Ray, we talk all things compute, and where the landscape may be headed in the future!

    • 46 min
    Alex Miller - Founder and Organizer of The Strange Loop Conference

    Alex Miller - Founder and Organizer of The Strange Loop Conference

    Your new rvatech/Talks host Zak Brown kicks off season 3 by talking with Alex Miller, founder and organizer of the Strange Loop conference. Join us as we discuss what it takes to build out a truly "Strange"  tech community that can withstand the test of time.

    • 36 min
    On the Stage at ProductFest RVA

    On the Stage at ProductFest RVA

    ICYMI - ProductFest RVA sold out for the first year, so catch the lunchtime roundtable episode hosted LIVE on the stage with Richmond's Product Gurus:
    Devin Smith - Experience Principal at Active Digital,
    Isaiah Harvin - Senior Product Manager at Disney Streaming, and
    Amy O'Callaghan - Head of Product at Vangst

    • 32 min
    Subhash Jaini - Managing Director - Innovative Data Solutions at Keiter CPAs

    Subhash Jaini - Managing Director - Innovative Data Solutions at Keiter CPAs

    Subash is an energetic and inspiring individual who can make anybody a believer in how valuable their data is. They see value in data when others just see it as a thing to retain and archive. When Subash hears of a company using an application to run their business and doesn't use any of it, they get pumped because that indicates there is a ton of valuable data.

    Misspellings (for search purposes): Subash, Sabash, habash, habas, datagoodness, r-coder, python, senior analyst, seeking data science roles, data scientist contractor, data science work, analytical contractors, data strategist, statistical programmer, data dealer)

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Eddy Simmons - Director, Application Systems at CarMax

    Eddy Simmons - Director, Application Systems at CarMax

    • 46 min

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