Episode 36 features Leon Kuperman, who gets his gamedev cred from text based Zork style adventures, and is a Co-founder and CTO at CAST AI. Formerly Vice President of Security Products OCI at Oracle, Leon’s professional experience spans across tech companies such as IBM, Truition, and HostedPCI. He founded and served as the CTO of Zenedge, an enterprise security company protecting large enterprises with a cloud WAF. Leon has 20+ years of experience in product management, software design, and development, all the way through to production deployment. He is an authority on cloud computing, web application security and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), e-commerce, and web application architecture. And that's where we talk about his journey through development, his views on building a resilient team and product, and more.

1. (00:00) John’s Intro
2. (3:20) Who is Leon Kuperman?
3. (14:45) Computer Scientists
4. (22:14) Cloud Computing
5. (34:57) Cloud Instance Pricing
6. (43:01) Cast.AI
7. (50:57) Finding the Right Fit
8. (01:04:35) Company Culture
9. (01:15:45) Final Round
10. (01:23:38) John’s Outro

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