Meet the hosts behind
Software Engineering Daily

Sean Falconer is the Head of AI at Confluent where he leads the AI product team, responsible for creating Confluent Intelligence, the company’s platform for building real-time, context-aware AI systems. In prior roles, Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from AI to quantum computing. You can connect with Sean on LinkedIn.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist having been a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies. He currently leads Ecosystem at Supabase, bringing his deep technical and strategic experience to one of the fastest-growing open-source development platforms. Based in Singapore, Gregor can be found at vand.hk or on LinkedIn.

Kevin Ball or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.

This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, frontend developer at Sentry and open-source maintainer. Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably typescript-eslint: a powerful static analysis toolset for JavaScript and TypeScript. Josh is also the author of the O’Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a co-founder of SquiggleConf – a conference for excellent web developer tooling. Find Josh on Bluesky, Fosstodon, and .com as Joshua K. Goldberg.

Matt Merrill is a software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling software teams across enterprise and product-focused organizations. His background is in backend development, cloud architecture, and distributed systems design. He currently architects and delivers software products and leads a team of engineers at DEPT® Agency. You can learn more about his work at code.theothermattm.com.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and technology thought leader with over three decades of industry experience. He has served as CTO, Chief Architect, and Engineering Director at companies including Amazon, AWS, New Relic, and Hewlett Packard. Lee is also an author of several O’Reilly Media titles including Architecting for Scale and Overcoming IT Complexity, and advises and consults for organizations ranging from Bank of America to Nike to the Walt Disney Company.

Nick Nisi is a conference organizer, speaker, and developer focused on tools across the web ecosystem. He has organized and emceed several conferences and has led NebraskaJS for more than a decade. Nick currently works as a developer experience engineer at WorkOS.

Elena Boroda focuses on GTM for developer tools and AI startups, with experience in observability and building tools for MCP servers. She is based in Berlin.