Anablock Podcast

Interview with Phil Gugliotta, Founder of Tech2 Resources

Welcome to Anablock Podcast.  This show is exploration of software, technology, ideas, business, and science.

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a System Integrator and Salesforce Consulting Partner. We specialize in Salesforce implementation work. Our team has expertise in solution architecture and custom development. You can reach us by visiting our website, anablock.com.

On this episode our guest is Phil Gugliotta. Phil is an eighteen-year veteran and leader in the staffing industry. Since 2003, Phil has been working within the staffing world, having been VP of Sales for a major staffing leader and owner of a regional staffing business in Long Island, New York.  He started Tech2 in 2009, after moving to NC, and has grown the firm into one of the premier Salesforce.com recruiting and staffing firms in the U.S.  

Tech2 Resources is a leading Salesforce.com Recruiting Firm with a long history of success placing talented individuals with top companies nationwide. Since 2010, Tech2 has been committed to delivering best-in-class staffing and recruiting services for the Salesforce ecosystem. Their perfected approach on both sides of the recruitment process sets them above their competition.  Visit their new, and improved, website at www.tech2resources.com to explore their open positions, Salesforce industry information, and more.

Austin, TX - Interview with Tony Lazarov & Rich Edison

Hello and welcome everyone. I am Vuk and this is Anablock podcast. This show is exploration of software, technology, ideas, business, and science.

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a System Integrator and Salesforce consulting partner. We specialize in custom implementation work. Our team has expertise in solution architecture and custom development. You can reach us by visiting our website, anablock.com.

Today’s show is about Austin, TX. Our guests are Tony and Rich. Tony and Rich are managing partners of REBEL Realty Investment Partnership. REBEL is Austin based real investment firm.

We talk about Austin. We talk about the hot real estate market, why people are moving to Austin, the history of the software industry in Austin, and real estate investment opportunities in Austin.

Richard Edison, Co-Managing Partner of REBEL  Realty Investment Partnership I LLC, is an  experienced securities professional with over 30 years industry-related experience much of  that in supervisory positions. He has successfully managed multiple investment portfolios.

Tony Lazarov, is Co-Managing Partner of REBEL Realty Investment Partnership I LLC.  Mr. Lazarov also serves as the Owner/Principal  and Senior Broker at Respace LLC, and  ManagePro LLC, an Austin based Real Estate Brokerage and property management firm with 35 agents and staff.

Interview with Dipanker 'DJ' Jyoti & Jim Hutcherson, Authors of Salesforce Architect's Handbook

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications.

In this episode our guests are Dipanker DJ Jyoti and Jim Hutcherson. DJ currently works for IBM as an associate partner, managing IBM’s Global Salesforce Assets. Previous to IBM, he held executive positions at Capgemini, Accenture, and Citibank.  

Jim Hutcherson is currently a principal and the chief technical architect at Capgemini Government Solutions where he leads the Salesforce Practice delivering enterprise-class solutions to US federal government customers. 

They are co-authors of Salesforce Architect's Handbook.  It is available for purchase on Amazon and other bookstores. 

We talk about their book, data migration patterns and best practices, system architecture, Salesforce ecosystem, and many other interesting topics.  I hope you will enjoy our conversation.

More about guests

Dipanker “DJ” Jyoti is an industry veteran with over two decades of experience in managing digital transformation engagements with Fortune 500 companies. Dipanker holds a total of 23 industry certifications, among which 13 certifications are in Salesforce, including the Salesforce Certified System Architect and Salesforce Certified Architect certifications. Some of his other architect-level certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Google Cloud Certified Professional Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect, and Certified Blockchain Expert.

Dipanker currently works for IBM as an associate partner, managing IBM’s Global Salesforce Assets. Previous to IBM, he held executive positions at Capgemini, Accenture, and Citibank. Dipanker’s involvement with Salesforce began a decade ago, as part of a strategic business transformation engagement, where he got intimately involved in building a Salesforce proof of concept to demonstrate the capabilities of using a low code/no code CRM solution.  

For more details about Dipanker, you can follow him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dipanker-dj-jyoti-3104974/.

James A. Hutcherson is a seasoned business leader with more than 40 years of technology experience. His first Salesforce project was implemented in 2004 where he started his Salesforce journey. During this time, James had taken every opportunity to grow his Salesforce knowledge. He holds 17 Salesforce certifications including Certified Salesforce Application Architect and Certified Salesforce System Architect. James is an avid educator and has hosted several no-cost Salesforce training sessions over the last few years to give back and grow the Salesforce ecosystem.

James is currently a principal and the chief technical architect at Capgemini Government Solutions where he leads the Salesforce Practice delivering enterprise-class solutions to US federal government customers. 

Follow him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hutcherson-2018/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/hutchersonj.

 

Have a happy listening :)

 

Learning Series: Best Practices for Deployments with Large Data Volumes

This is our Learning Series.  In this episode we are highlighting some of the key concepts and best practices when working with big data and Salesforce.

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications.

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Interview with Tim Berglund, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at Confluent

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications.

In this episode our guest is Tim Berglund. Tim is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Senior Director of Developer Advocacy. We talk about Apache Kafka, Confluent, Salesforce Connector for Kafka, Confluent Cloud, and many other interesting topics.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tlberglund/

Tim's podcast - Streaming Audio: A Confluent podcast about Apache Kafka‪

Confluent - https://www.confluent.io/

Salesforce Connector for Apache Kafka - https://docs.confluent.io/kafka-connect-salesforce/current/index.html

 

Interview with David Masri, Data Architect, Author, and Founder of Gluon Digital

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications.

In this episode our guest is David Masri. Dave is a Data Architect, Author, and founder of Gluon Digital. We talk about his book, data migration patterns and best practices, Salesforce ecosystem, and many other interesting topics. I hope you will enjoy our conversation.

Blog - https://salesforcedatablog.com/

Book - Developing Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforce, by David Masri

Interview with Helen Epstein, former NYU journalism professor, author, and speaker

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications.

In this episode we have a special guest. Our guest is Helen Epstein. Helen is a former NYU journalism professor, author, and a guest lecturer. Helen is the author, editor or translator of ten books of non-fiction. We talk about her mother’s memoir Franci’s War, her trilogy of books, holocaust survivors, her start in Journalism in Czechoslovakia, and many more interesting topics. I hope you will enjoy the show.

Helen (www.helenepstein.com) is the author, editor or translator of ten books of non-fiction including the Holocaust trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History, and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma Children of the Holocaust was the first book of non-fiction to examine the inter-generational transmission of trauma and is widely used in university courses as well as by psychotherapists treating generations of traumatized communities (Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia, Bosnia, etc but also children of addicts and alcoholics).

In 2018, she published The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, a book about a long psychoanalysis and her working through childhood sexual abuse by a member of her parents' Czech community. Last year, she edited and published her mother's Franci's War in nine languages (www.franciswar.com). 

Interview with Ruby Kandah and Max Epstein, Founders of CloudX

In this episode my guests are Ruby and Max. They are founders of CloudX. CloudX is a Salesforce implementation partner. They specialize in implementation of Salesforce Service Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Mulesoft, and more. We talk about learning Salesforce, switching industries, moving to the Bay Area from Houston, product management at Salesforce, building Salesforce teams at DoorDash, and many more interesting topics. Enjoy this conversation.

Get more information about Ruby: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruby-kandah/

Get more information about Max: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilianepstein/

Get more info about CloudX: https://www.cloudx.design

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Interview with Slaven Bilac, CEO of AGENT IQ

In this episode our guest is Slaven Bilac.  Slaven is the co-founder and CEO of AgentIQ. Among many responsibilities, Slaven is leading the Agent IQ Engineering Team and is responsible for technology behind Agent IQ platform from early design to serving in production.

Before Agent IQ, Slaven worked at Google for 12 years, initially focusing on improving Google Search Engine and acting as Search Lead in the Google Japan Office. Later he lead the Cloud Machine Intelligence Group tasked with making Google-internal ML technology available on GCP. While at Google, Slaven has helped build several large engineering teams and demonstrated passion for making ML and NLP technology immediately useful by launching several user-facing products.

Slaven has a PhD in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology and his research focus was Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation. He has completed his undergraduate studies at University of Washington and holds BS in Computer Science and BA in Linguistics. He holds 6 patents and has published numerous papers at peer reviewed conferences.

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Interview with Nikita Prokopev, Founder of Pharos.ai

Hello and welcome everyone. I am Vuk Dukic and this is Anablock podcast. This show is exploration of enterprise software, technology, ideas, business, science and strategy. This podcast is for anyone that likes to learn new things about business and technology.

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications.

Today’s guest is Nikita Prokopev. Nikita is founder of Pharos.ai and Golden Ratio Systems. He is a senior software engineer with an amazing career and background. We talk about growing up in Russia, hacking culture, functional programming, early days of Salesforce, Pharos.ai app, and about many more tech and non-tech things.

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