Greater Than Code
Your Hosts
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Coraline Ada Ehmke
Coraline Ada Ehmke has hosted 89 episodes.
Coraline Ada Ehmke is a speaker, writer, teacher, open source advocate and technologist with 20 years of experience in developing apps for the web. As the founder of OS4W.org and creator of the Contributor Covenant, she works diligently to promote diversity and inclusivity in open source and the tech industry.
Coraline is also writing a book on empathy in software development. Her current interests include refactoring, code analytics and artificial intelligence.
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Jamey Hampton
Jamey Hampton has hosted 85 episodes.
Jameson Hampton is an artist who turned into a programmer after one too many animation classes that were computer science classes in disguise. They love writing code because they love solving puzzles. They’re a professional plant-liker and software engineer for Agrilyst. They also speak at conferences, particularly about transgender advocacy and engineering ethics. For me, check out their blog at jameybash.com!
Jamey is passionate about both making zines and reading zines. They are the resident zine librarian at Sugar City Arts Collaborative.
Jamey’s greatest wish is that they were immortal so they’d have time to visit every coffee shop in the world. They spend their free time thinking about Star Wars, being a world ranked scavenger hunter, and going out into the woods to set sculptures on fire.
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Astrid Countee
Astrid Countee has hosted 44 episodes.
Astrid is a Ruby Nuby (programming in Ruby just 2 years), anthropologist and writer. She slowly worked her way over to software development by managing and the building databases and working as a data analyst. Then she went all in and attended The Iron Yard Academy in Houston. Afterwards she worked at HP as a QA Engineer and DevOps Engineer. Now she is the Director for Tech for Justice and a freelance software developer.
Astrid is all about learning and growing as a developer and tech diversity advocate. She encourages girls to code through coaching for organizations like Rails Girls and is currently teaching herself Python so that she can also become a pyLady. Astrid is still an active social scientist and helps moderate a slack group called AnthroHangout. She spends her spare time binge watching Netflix and spending time with her husband and 3 dogs.
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Arty Starr
Arty Starr has hosted 66 episodes.
Arty is author of Idea Flow, a data-driven approach to measuring the “friction“ in developer experience, and making improvement decisions based on data rather than gut feel. After a 17-year career as a developer, consultant, and CTO specialized in statistical process control and data supply chain, she is now a full-time entrepreneur, founder of Twilight City, Inc, a public benefit corporation building a next-generation platform for optimizing flow.
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Rein Henrichs
Rein Henrichs has hosted 105 episodes.
Rein is a strange sort of software developer who spends more time thinking about systems made with people than systems made with computers. He believes that most technical problems are really people problems, and that people problems can be solved by listening, caring, and empowering others. Talking about himself in the third person makes him uncomfortable, but he is working on it. He also wrote a database in Haskell once, so he has that going for him, which is nice.
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John K. Sawers
John K. Sawers has hosted 95 episodes.
Amongst John’s weaponry are public speaking, doing the rails thing, and talking about feelings in public. His technology talks aren’t about technology and sometimes he has time to meditate. He remembers the sound of dialup.
Soon, John will no longer write much code, having intentionally (yes, intentionally) moved into management. He seems to think that making people better is more satisfying than making computers better. With that in mind he’s also spent a lot of time mentoring bootcamp developers and supervising workshops focused on deep emotional work.
He spends days at Privia Health, nights as co-founder and CTO of Data Simply and all the rest of it at johnksawers.com and emotionalAPI.com.
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Chanté Thurmond
Chanté Thurmond has hosted 25 episodes.
Chanté Thurmond is a D&I Talent Strategist who partners with emerging tech startups, digital health innovation companies, and VC firms throughout the U.S. helping them attract, retain and engage top talent.
Chanté’s interests are full-bodied, eclectic and reflective of her entrepreneurial spirit. In 2018 she founded The Darkest Horse, a next-gen consultancy exploring the intersections of radical inclusion, the future of work, emerging technology, and health, well-being, and human potential.
Chanté is also a Contributing Writer at Futurithmic, a new digital publication powered by NOKIA that explores the implications of emerging tech (such as 5G and IoT). In addition, she serves as a consultant and trusted advisor to a handful of small businesses, social impact organizations and early-stage startups throughout N. America.
Her background is anchored in Organizational Development, Social Innovation, Health & Well-being, and Community Engagement. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Mount Mercy University and an M.A. from St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, MN. Chanté is a proud mother of twins and Iowa native who now considers the community of Evanston (IL) home.
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Jacob Stoebel
Jacob Stoebel has hosted 52 episodes.
Jacob is a software developer living in Berea, KY. He spends his days writing web applications in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/Typescript and React, working with data, and leveling up as a software engineer.
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Jerome Hardaway
Jerome Hardaway has hosted 4 episodes.
Jerome is a Memphis native, currently residing in Nashville. He’s the executive director of Vets Who Code, a 501c3 that trains early stage transitioning veterans in web development and helps them find gainful employment in the software industry. His work has been featured in Huffington Post and he’s been invited to the White House, DreamForce and Facebook for his work with veterans.
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Amy Newell
Amy Newell has hosted 2 episodes.
Amy Newell has been a software engineer since 1999, when she fell in love with a heapsort. She is Senior Director of Engineering at Wistia. She likes to talk about engineering management and the relationships between suffering, authenticity, and productivity in the workplace. She also writes poetry, does stand-up comedy, reads tarot, advocates for the mentally ill, and parents two teenagers. She likes boots, oysters, mezcal, and anti-fascists.
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Damien Burke
Damien Burke has hosted 20 episodes.
Damien Burke started working on Internet startups in 1999 and never stopped. He has been an engineer, founder, CTO, VP, and product manager.
Outside of tech, Damien is certified in ontological coaching, hypnosis, and neuro-linguistic programming. He spent several years as a professional poker player, has performed as an actor in theatre, commercials, network television, and film, and currently serves on the board of his local neighborhood council.
Damien is the co-creator of EarlyWords, a tool to help aspirational creatives achieve flow.
He is the creator of the Neighborhood Council Management System which supports volunteers working in (very) local government.
He is also the creator of Neverbust, the bankroll manager for professional poker players.
Finally, Damien offers coaching and consulting for software product teams at Talaria Software.
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Casey Watts!
Casey Watts! has hosted 21 episodes.
Casey Watts! likes system optimizing, technology, singing, dancing, blowing bubbles, enthusiasm, clear communication, and hugs. He loves helping people collaborate together more effectively (people systems~). Casey is also the author of Debugging Your Brain.
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Tim Banks
Tim Banks has hosted 3 episodes.
Tim Banks has a career spanning over 20 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started as a US Marine in avionics. Upon leaving the Marine Corps, he went on to work as a government contractor. He then went into the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and in small startups. While working in the private sector, he honed his skills in systems administration and operations for large Unix-based datastores. Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with engineering groups in his current role as a Principal Solutions Architect at Equinix Metal. Tim is also a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, having won American National and Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu championships in his division.
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Mae Beale
Mae Beale has hosted 8 episodes.
Mae Beale spent 20 years in and out of nonprofit-land, with jaunts into biochemistry and women's studies degreeing, full-time pool playing, high school chemistry & physics teaching, higher ed senior administrating, and more. She went to code school in 2014 (at 37 years old!) to gain the technical skills needed to build the tools she wished she'd had in all the years prior.
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Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore has hosted 20 episodes.
Mandy Moore is a panelist, the show manager and the producer of Greater Than Code, but her ultimate title is proud single mom and ex-waitress-turned-entrepreneur. She is a "Mother of Catseses". Her human child is 12 years old and the ultimate love of her life. They adopted a Golden Retriever pupper in November 2019. He fits in just fine. He says, "Hi, henlo. His name is Gallagher."
She specializes in quality audio processing and editing and provides complete show management and production for several podcasts including Greater Than Code. Her work currently includes Hanselminutes, Page It To The Limit from PagerDuty, the Microsoft Azure For Industry show, Elm Radio, and Story Time With Managers by Cohere.
Women in tech, diversity and inclusion, and getting children involved in STEM education are all causes very near and dear to her heart. She can also be found traveling to as many tech conferences as she can to emcee, podcast field report, or just hang out with her fellow geeks.
Please feel free to reach out to her with any questions, comments and/or concerns re: Greater Than Code, or book a time with her to discuss your own podcasting needs: calendly.com/mandymoore.
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Chelsea Troy
Chelsea Troy has hosted 4 episodes.
Chelsea Troy writes code for mobile, the web, and machine learning models. She consulted with Pivotal Labs before launching her own firm to focus on clients who are saving the planet, advancing basic scientific research, or helping underserved communities.
Chelsea live streams her programming work on NASA-funded mobile and server projects, and she teaches Mobile Software Development at the University of Chicago. Off the computer, you'll find Chelsea with a barbell or riding her ebike, Gigi.
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Mannah Kallon
Mannah Kallon has hosted 1 episode.
Mannah Kallon is a former chef and educator that turned his deep love for hip hop, philosophy, and Street Fighter into a career as a software engineer in the Bay Area.
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Aaron Aldrich
Aaron Aldrich has hosted 3 episodes.
Aaron Aldrich is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, Founding organizer of DevOpsDays Hartford, and frequent DevOpsDays organizer and participant all over.
When not talking about DevOps and Resilience Engineering, you can find him talking about Mental Health with osmi-help.org or running Emotional Intelligence workshops with EmotionalAPI.com.
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Christina Morillo
Christina Morillo has hosted 13 episodes.
C:\hristina is a New York City-based information security and technology professional with a background in enterprise-level security and identity management. By day she works at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the Cloud & Engineering Security team.
In addition to her professional work, Christina also co-founded a community for women of color in tech, which is best known for their open source collection of stock photos. She enjoys spending time with her family and loved ones, problem-solving, boxing and most recently, yoga. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.
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Laurie Barth
Laurie Barth has hosted 3 episodes.
Laurie is a software engineer who started as a mathematician. She currently works as a Staff Engineer on the Themes Team at Gatsby, helping to develop next generation tooling.
In 2017 a local, first year conference was soliciting speakers to talk about legacy system replacement. As a woman in technology, Laurie wanted to see more speakers like her on the stage and decided to submit a talk based on the large and varied legacy systems she had worked on over the years. From there, she was bit by the speaking bug!
Now, Laurie travels around speaking about the variety of technical challenges she has faced in her career. Beyond speaking Laurie is an Egghead Instructor, Google Developer Expert, contributor to publications such as CSS Tricks and Smashing Magazine, and a member of the TC39 Educator's committee. In her free time, she involves herself in local technology groups including facilitating a Girls Who Code club. Then she sits back with a cupcake and plays board games with her puppy, Avett.
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Avdi Grimm
Avdi Grimm has hosted 19 episodes.
In his 20-year software development career, Avdi Grimm has worked on everything from aerospace embedded systems to enterprise web applications. He’s a consulting pair-programmer, the author of several popular Ruby programming books, and a recipient of the Ruby Hero award for service to the Ruby community. Since 2011 he has been teaching developers how to work more effectively (and have fun doing) it at RubyTapas.com.
He spends his theoretical spare time hanging out with his kids, hiking the Smoky Mountains, and dancing to oontz-oontz music.
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Jessica Kerr
Jessica Kerr has hosted 96 episodes.
Almost twenty years ago, Jessica chose to program because it was easy and it was 9-5. Now programming is hard, she spends all her spare time on it, and she loves it immensely more.
Software is fascinating because we create complex systems incredibly quickly. This means we get to learn about complex systems, which teaches us about everything else in life. For more, see her blogs at blog.jessitron.com and [tistil.tumblr.com](tistil.tumblr.com)
Jessica (better known as JessiTRON) works as a lead engineer at Atomist. Infrastructure is the best because it’s software about software. She also raises two daughters, speaks at conferences, studies piano, and stares at the waves in the milk film on her coffee.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
Sam Livingston-Gray has hosted 74 episodes.
Sam Livingston-Gray has been a dad since 2008, a Rubyist since 2006, a Portlander since 2001, a programmer since at least 1998, a juggler since 1988, and a human since 1974. He’s keenly interested in writing software that makes other humans’ lives easier, in making technical topics easier to understand, and in helping increase the number and variety of humans^ in technical spaces.
^ And, of course, other sentient species or constructs just as soon as we find any. ^ ^
^ ^ Sam reads a lot of science fiction.
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David Brady
David Brady has hosted 5 episodes.
Dave thinks weird thoughts and tells weird jokes. He writes for humans in several programming languages and occasionally in English. He's also a bacon opportunist.
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Jay Bobo
Jay Bobo has hosted 7 episodes.
Co-Founder of Cards For All People (a casual cultural gaming company).
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Jasmine Greenaway
Jasmine Greenaway has hosted 2 episodes.
Jasmine has been working professionally as a .NET dev since late 2009. This has led her to some amazing opportunities such as getting credited in a AAA quality game, traveling the world, and getting the chance to use Visual Studio's extensibility framework in an open source environment. She's living the hipster dream in Brooklyn, NY, the place to get "small, artisanal" batches of goods, and where the kale flows in abundance.
She is also teach beginning web development as an adjunct professor at a local community college, and co-organize BrooklynJS - a monthly meetup with lightning talks and musical guests. Outside of work, she enjoys taking various classes she finds from Groupon, playing video or board games, exploring the city, and also enjoy sampling wines, oysters, or teas.
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Lorena Mesa
Lorena Mesa has hosted 2 episodes.
Political scientist turned coder, Lorena Mesa is a data engineer on GitHub's software intelligence systems team, Director on the Python Software Foundation, and PyLadies Chicago co-organizer. Lorena's time at Obama for America and her subsequent graduate research required her to learn how to transform messy, incomplete data into intelligible analysis on topics like predicting Latinx voter behavior. It's this unique background in research and applied mathematics that drove Lorena to pursue a career in engineering and data science. One part activist, one part Star Wars fanatic, and another part Trekkie, Lorena abides by the motto to "live long and prosper".
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Carina C. Zona
Carina C. Zona has hosted 6 episodes.
Carina Zona is a developer, advocate and certified sex educator. She spends a lot of time thinking about the unexpected cultural effects of our decisions as programmers. Carina is also the founder of CallbackWomen, which is on a mission to radically increase gender diversity at the podium of professional programmer’s conferences.