Underserved
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ep. 026, Insurance as a career
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith Barnes-Cook started running agile development teams before agile was even "a thing". Her no-nonsense, results-oriented approach to insurance ...
Ep. 025, Architecture Discussion
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Season Three kicks off with our guest Jim Martin, CTO of Shepley Bulfinch. Famed architect H.H. Richardson gave birth to the company way back in th...
Underserved 2020 BBQ Special Episode Part 2 Just the BBQ Tips
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are back with Part 2 of our BBQ Bonus edition of Underserved! This episode features the tips and tricks that our pitmasters have learned during yea...
Underserved 2020 BBQ Special Episode Part 1
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Just in time for summer - A special 2-part BBQ bonus edition of Underserved! Years back I decided to get good at cooking barbecue and formed a competi...
Ep. 024, The best WiFi is in the jungle
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Capping off Season Two, Bharathi Balasubramanyam (B, for short) tells us about finding computer science when biology class went awry, serverless frame...
Ep. 023, Scratching the itch to code
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest PK Shiu was building remote development teams long before it was fashionable (or the only way!) to do so. We cover the organizational and pe...
Ep. 022, Catching the coding bug
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest Sara Morgan explains how a sick day led to a love of coding and how questions like, "Would you rather plan a party or take a doorknob apart?...
Ep. 021, Ed Tech REACTions
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Hodges (fellow member of the Commodore Army) applied lots of grit and determination to graduate with a CS degree at a time when 93% were quitting...
Ep. 020, Social-emotional learning
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Khan Klatt has been involved in education technology for the last 7 years, on both the for-profit and non-profit sides of the industry. Khan talks abo...
Ep. 019, Better Business Travel
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Stasonis, VP of Engineering at Lola.com talks about the trajectory of an engineering career, and how to decide at critical junctures - "Stay or ...
Ep. 018, Get in the ring
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If your team grows 4x in a year it can be hard to keep up! Ken Pickering talks about bracing for the influx, living with a Scala architecture, and wor...
Ep. 017, Go fly a kiteboard
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest Ben Szekely talks about pioneering semantic technologies at CSI for over a decade. As an SVP and Head of Field Operations, Ben has been appl...
Ep. 016, The Continuous Compliance Conundrum
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vikas Singhvi went from the ultimate for-profit industry (financial services software) to a running IT for a non-profit. Hear his lessons learned, alo...
Ep. 015, The siren song of the modem
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in Episode 015 is John Newman, Senior Software Engineer (Java/Spring/Oracle). After growing up on a steady diet of BBSes, John went from the...
Ep. 014, Competing against free is really hard
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 014 I talk to Tim Callaghan, VP of Technology at Crunchtime. Tim has some great stories from a previous job where they embraced open source...
Ep. 013, A trip you'll want to hear about
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off Season Two with Steve Kaufer, CEO of TripAdvisor, Inc. Steve made the long trek across the highway in Needham to talk to me about what ini...
Underserved 2019 Holiday Bonus Episode
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's almost time for the business world to hibernate for a couple of weeks, and Underserved is shipping some yuletide bits to enjoy during the break! ...
Ep. 012, Rise of the machines
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How many people started their data science career at 16 years old? Then took a sabbatical to play with famous jazz musicians? And subsequently bootstr...
Ep. 011, Addicted to learning
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Arvind Singh https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaroh/ is a software developer that specializes in security and identity management. He has been a propon...
Ep. 010, QA is a marathon, not a sprint
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Adams got into QA by way of customer service, and has developed his testing skills, user empathy, and teamwork to become a top professional. We ...
Ep. 009, The higher you are on the pyramid...
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I have known Mark Carbrey for over 20 years, from my first job in the software development industry. One fateful day I asked to audit a class he was t...
Ep. 008 of Underserved, The geek shall inherit the earth
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert "Swifty" Swift (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-swift-2094774/ ) A.K.A "Nixon" has been a fixture of the Boston geek community for...
EPS NEWS FLASH - Twitch Stream Poker Cheating Scandal - Mike Postle
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Special News Episode - There is a scandal in the Twitch Streaming/Poker world this week. Our guest to help us break down and analyze the news is Mike ...
Ep. 007 of Underserved, Destined to be a developer
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is my friend of nearly 20 years, Mike Breault. Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkbreault/ Mike and I became fas...
Episode 006, What about the children?
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week I talk to my wife Tricia and daughter Caroline to get two different perspectives on kids using social media. If you are a parent and don't k...
No CS degree? No problem!
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jarrod Taylor is a self-taught software developer. He lives in Florida and works with modern JavaScript frameworks and languages like Ruby, He started...
Ep. 004 of Underserved, Drafting the varsity team
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Colin Reposa, VP of Resource Management from Syrinx Consulting. Colin's job is to match up technologists with the needs clients h...
Ep. 003 of Underserved, How Agile are you?
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 003, Glyn Morgan (Practice Director, AgileNX) talks about modern software development processes. Specifically, what's it like to implement ...
Episode 002 of Underserved, You have to sell to survive
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the first few companies where I worked there was little fraternization between the sales, product, and development groups. Monster changed that for...
Episode 001 of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the technology industry
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode of Underserved, Andrew explains the motivation for the podcast. He also talks about how he got into programming and answers ...