Underserved Andrew Gelina

Season 9 of Underserved kicks off in-studio with our guest Tanya Bulkovshteyn. Tanya's family moved to Canada and quickly found out French immersion was not optional. Dad's push toward a technical career led her to computer science and the United States. Tanya describes how being a woman in the field has been at times a nice, novel way to stand out and others a hard way to fit in. This has led Tanya to help mentor other women coming up in the field and taught her the value of building a network of like-minded peers.
 
Links:
https://www.butcherbox.com/
https://www.aspca.org/news/us-supreme-court-upholds-prop-12-preserving-landmark-protections-pigs-chickens-and-calves
https://www.invaluable.com/
https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/charter-of-the-french-language/
https://extension.harvard.edu/
https://www.shegeeksout.com/
https://www.autismspeaks.org/
 

Underserved has reached Episode 100! We celebrate this special landmark with a very special show. We bring back three previous guests (Mike Breault from #007, Eli Goldberg from #069, and Steve Kaufer from #013) and add one new one (Rachael Rosen) to form a panel of distinguished experts. We discuss with our panel how artificial intelligence is going to change the software development game forever.
 
ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
CoPilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Prompt Perfect: https://promptperfect.jina.ai/
The Tyrell Corporation: https://www.speculativeidentities.com/research/tyrell-corp

Our 99th episode features Tim Sebel from Bullhorn. Tim was able to leverage his AP classes from high school into an unusually wide amount of choices in college. Or rather, not having to choose between three different majors and completing them all! Tim moved on to startups doing semantic search, helping small cable companies, and assisting folks with dementia before moving on to a large time-tracking company. The latter led him to Bullhorn, where he has helped transform their toolset into a one-stop-shop for running a staffing company.
 
Tim on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timsebel/
Emory University: https://www.emory.edu/home/index.html
SimpleC: https://www.simplec.com/
Bullhorn: https://www.bullhorn.com/

Episode #098 of Underserved features Gu Xie live from Texas. We start with his unlikely story of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in Belize, moving to the US, and learning some tough lessons in and out of the classroom at the University of Georgia. Also discussed: leaning into data analytics, superior toolsets driving more mental strain to understand them, and why 10 years in data feels like 3 lifetimes.
 
Show Notes Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/guxie/
https://www.group1001.com/
https://neptune.ai/blog/modern-data-stack
https://a16z.com/2020/10/15/emerging-architectures-for-modern-data-infrastructure/

Komal Maliekal is our featured guest for Episode #097 of Underserved. Komal channeled her mother's fighting spirit to succeed in a difficult engineering school, job market, and technology landscape in her native India. We talk about the culture shift moving to the United States, what to do when your test devices get stolen, and giving back to women in the tech industry. 
 
Komal's LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/komal-maliekal-4553b38/
Article on Devices : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-cloud-based-medical-device-platform-komal-maliekal/
Info on anitab.org : https://ghc.anitab.org/
Athenahealth : https://www.athenahealth.com/
Dr AIT college : https://drait.edu.in/

In Episode #096 of Underserved, our guest is Chris Boutiette. Chris had to ask his high school to add computer courses, only to find them unexpectedly challenging. This didn't deter him from pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or working his way through college running a tech support firm. We talk about working your way up the organization from QA, wrangling rampant robots, and clearing your head from the saddle of a motorcycle.
 
Chris' LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-boutiette-aa3b1239/
Symbotic https://www.symbotic.com/
BMW Motorcycles https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/home.html#/filter-all
Shell Tech Works https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/entrepreneurs-and-start-ups/shell-techworks.html