Episodes

  • "Jack of All Trades, Master of Fun” with Brian Dubreuil, Sr. Technology Specialist at QA Cafe
    Jul 9 2024

    In this episode, Jason sits down with Brian Dubreuil, one of the magician’s behind customer success and support here at QA Cafe. They chat about Wi-Fi, being an extension of our customers teams, and why The Princess Bride is the greatest movie of all time.

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    49 mins
  • “Mining, Mastery, and Meraki” with Brennan Martin and Alex Burger of Cisco Meraki
    Jun 25 2024

    In our first multi-guest episode for Epik Mellon, we sit down with Brennan Martin, Technical Leader at Cisco Meraki, and Alex Burger, Principal Engineer at Cisco Meraki, about networking expertise, pcaps, and working remotely both before and after covid.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • "The most fun you’ll have” with Craig Thomas, CEO of the Broadband Forum
    Jun 11 2024

    Alright, it’s time for a deep dive into the standards organization I work with most: the Broadband Forum. CEO Craig Thomas and I sit down and chat about the future of the connected home, why we love standards, and why getting involved pays off for companies.

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    47 mins
  • “The Human Factor” with Massimo Zefferino of zfactor
    May 28 2024

    In this episode we sit down with Massimo Zefferino of zfactor, the digital marketing firm that handles our work at QA Cafe and many others in the broadband and computer networking industries, about finding a niche, sticking with it, and making sure that everyone everywhere is always thinking about the end-user first when designing their brand and their messaging around technology.

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    56 mins
  • “Fortunate Failures” with Tzvi Skapinker, VP of Product Management and Friendly Technologies
    May 14 2024

    In this episode, I talk with Tzvi Skapinker of Friendly Technologies about the evolution of home network management for ISPs and how something that seems like a failure can turn out to be the change you need to get in on the future you were meant for.

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    54 mins
  • "PCAPs, Australia, and Acronym Soup” with Tim Winters, CTO at QA Cafe
    Apr 30 2024

    In this episode I sit down once again with Tim Winters, our CTO at QA Cafe, to talk about all of the changes we’ve experienced in the last year, the challenges with making complex test and network information accessible to everyone, and flying to Australia for IETF meetings.

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    51 mins
  • “A Year Later” with Jeremy Brown, VP of Threat Analysis at Trinity Cyber
    Apr 15 2024

    Almost exactly one year after Epik Mellon began, I chat once again with Jeremy Brown of Trinity Cyber about the newest threat landscape, the technology skills gap, and doubling a company's size in a single year.

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    54 mins
  • “Through the Consumer Lens” with Elizabeth Parks of Parks Associates
    Apr 2 2024

    In this episode I got to talk with Elizabeth Parks from Parks Associates, the premier research firm for the connected consumer industry, about the pace of technology over the last 40 years and how everyone, everywhere in the supply chain, needs to have their mind on the consumer experience.

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    50 mins