Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Laura Bennett, host of the Coach’s Corner Podcast and a principal at BDL Consulting joins the show for a candid conversation on leadership, resilience, and how to take meaningful steps forward amid uncertainty. Together, we explore what it truly means to be resilient—not just to withstand challenges, but to actively navigate through them and emerge stronger. Laura shares insights from her coaching work and podcast guests, discussing the power of small, intentional steps, emotional detachment, and being selective about what we consume—especially in today’s distraction-heavy environment.

Tiffany Johnson is originally from Texas, but grew up in California. At a young age, she was a bit of an adrenaline junkie, partaking in skydiving, snowboarding, wakeboarding and gymnastics. In school, she fell in love with Econ, Mgmt, and Statistics - and eventually, fell into the payment industry by accident. Outside of tech, she has been married for 20 years with 3 kids. Her kids are all snow skiers, though she doesn't hold that against them as a snowboarder.

A few years ago, Tiffany was contacted about a new opportunity at a decades old company in the payments space. This company wanted to bring to market a solution around embedded finance, specifically for SaaS solutions - and Tiffany was the perfect product leader for the role.

This is Tiffany's creation story at NMI.

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Links

• https://www.nmi.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-johnson-b339242/

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U.S. Bank has undergone a significant digital transformation, implementing a multi-cloud strategy to accelerate innovation and improve customer-focused development. Operating in a highly regulated environment, the bank must navigate the challenge of balancing innovation with strict compliance requirements while meeting the evolving demands and needs of customers and employees. 

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Jody Bailey, Stack Overflow’s CPO, Anirudh Kaul, Senior Director of Software Engineering, and Paul Petersen, Cloud Platform Engineering Manager, discuss the U.S. Bank’s journey from traditional banking practices to embracing new technologies. The conversation covers the technical and organizational aspects of large-scale cloud migration, along with their leadership approach during this transformative period.

Key topics include:

• How U.S. Bank empowers teams to innovate without sacrificing team agility. The importance of team collaboration, transparency, trust, and continuous communication in fostering innovation and successful tool adoption.
• Cloud migration strategies and the role of platform engineering in enabling and supporting organizational change.

Notes:

• Connect with Anirudh Kaul and Paul Petersen. Learn more about U.S. Bank.
• Connect with Jody Bailey on LinkedIn. 

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a raw, unfiltered conversation about AI's potential, its stakes, and the source of his outspokenness. The interview is part of a major Big Technology profile about Amodei, ft. interviews with more than two dozen of his colleagues, friends, and critics. You can read that story for free here: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making-of-dario-amodei

We also cover Mark Zuckerberg's AI talent spending spree, Amodei's rivalry with OpenAI, his response to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's criticism, the state of the AI scaling laws, and whether there's a risk we'll lose control of the technology.

Tune in for a candid, emotional, and high energy conversation with one of the leaders driving the AI wave today.

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The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS Method

Today, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Protegrity is AI-powered data security for data consumption, offering fine grain data protection solutions, so you can enable your data security, compliance, sharing and analytics.

Episode Title: Navigating the Future of Data Management: Type Systems, Quantum Computing, and Protegrity's Innovations

In our final episode, we are speaking with Michael Howard, CEO of Protegrity. We talk about how traditional type systems often fail short in modern data management, as well as potential threats posed by quantum computing to current encryption methods, as well as how Protegrity's product embeds context and security into the data itself, in order to repel any threat.

Questions

• Tell me and my audience a little bit about you. 
• I know that you’ve referred to type systems as “lame.” Can you explain the concept of type systems in databases, why they’re lame, and why they pose challenges for modern data management?
• How is quantum computing poised to impact the current landscape of data security and encryption?
• What are some of the limitations of traditional type systems in databases, and how can they be improved to handle modern data challenges?
• Can you share insights on how Protegrity's approach to data classification and protection differs from traditional methods?
• Looking ahead, how do you envision the role of type systems evolving with the advent of quantum computing and other emerging technologies?
• One of Protegrity’s talking points has been how far behind legislation for data privacy and security is compared to today’s rapidly accelerating data landscape. What do you think needs to happen – in quantum and AI – for conversations to turn into action?

Links

• https://www.protegrity.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-howard-2b7b273/

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Brennan Pothetes grew up in Louisiana, but went to High School in Portland, Oregon - two very different places. He started his career in internal audit, before he eventually helped launch Simple, the first bank on the iPhone. He has built a lot of companies since, and continues to do so. Outside of business and tech, he likes food and enjoys whipping up some cajun or greek cuisine. Recently, he picked up surfing, but also likes to sit down with real time strategy games like Civilization.

Brennan was one of the first customers of Invisible, which was one of the biggest trainers of LLMs. After he sold his last company, he was approached by the board to help then spin businesses out, but in a strategic way with a hold co, allowing them to work together with them zero to one, and beyond.

This is the creation story of Infinity Constellation.

Sponsors

• Paddle.com
• Sema Software
• PropelAuth
• Postman
• Meilisearch
• Mailtrap
• .TECH Domains (https://get.tech/codestory)

Links

• https://www.infinityconstellation.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/brennanpothetes/

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Etsy is a global marketplace that keeps human connection at the heart of commerce. 

Connect with Mahir on LinkedIn.

This week’s shoutout goes to user jsignell, who won a Populist badge for their answer to How do I tell if a column in a pandas dataframe is of type datetime? How do I tell if a column is numerical?.

Topics covered in this episode:

• * Open Source Security work isn't “Special”*
• * uv v0.8*
• * Extra, Extra, Extra*
• Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: Open Source Security work isn't “Special”

• Seth Larson
• It seems like security is special in a sense that we don’t want just anyone working on the security aspect of a project. We just want the trusted maintainers, right?
• Seth is arguing that this is the wrong mindset
• It makes more sense that we maybe have security experts contribute to many projects, and that someone working on security for just one project doesn’t benefit from scale.
  • “Maintainers don’t see how other projects are triaging vulnerabilities and can’t learn from each other. They can’t compare notes on what they are seeing and whether they are doing the right thing. Isolation in security work breeds a culture of fear. Fear of doing the wrong thing and making your users unsafe.”
  • “These “security contributors” could be maintainers or contributors of other open source projects that know about security, they could be foundations offering up resources to their ecosystem, or engineers at companies helping their dependency graph.”
• But how do we build trust in these individuals?
  • Meeting in person works.
  • But there are other ways as well.
• I’d personally love to have someone contact me about a project of mine regarding a security problem or process that the project could/should follow. Especially if I could see other projects I trust already trusting this individual to work on the other projects.

Michael #2: uv v0.8

• Changes
  • Install Python executables into a directory on the PATH
  • Register Python versions with the Windows Registry
  • Prompt before removing an existing directory in uv venv
  • Bump --python-platform linux to manylinux_2_28
  • Make uv_build the default build backend in uv init
  • And many more
• And uv v0.8.1
  • Lots of enhancements.
• And uv v0.8.2
• And uv v0.8.3
  • Adds Add CPython 3.14.0rc1

Brian #3: Extra, Extra, Extra

• fstrings.wtf - Armin Ronacher
• Python 3.14 release candidate 1 is go!
• Django turns 20, with parties
• mkdocs-redirects
• I’m Tired of Talking About AI - Paddy Carver

Michael #4: Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal

• by Will McGugan
• A universal front-end for AI in the terminal.
• Watch the video.

Joke: Heaviest objects in the universe

And … Cloud Architects 2025 “They send us our cloud bills in scientific notation… “ 🙂

Richard Carson, author of the best-seller The Book of Change and an experienced public sector leader joins the show to explore the evolving landscape of organizational change management. Drawing on over 30 years of experience across local, regional, and state government, he shares why effective change isn’t about technology alone—but how organizations adopt and adapt around it. From the bureaucratic hurdles of public service to the psychological toll of transformation, the conversation digs into why most change initiatives fail—and how a bottom-up, empathetic approach can drive lasting impact.

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