Hello everyone and welcome to the very first episode of We'll Be in Touch, a new podcast series from Stack Overflow. 

This show will explore the world of job interviews, career development, and software engineering. Each episode, we'll sit down with folks working in software development to hear their stories, dive into their latest projects, learn about tricky bugs they've tackled, and discuss the tricks they use to keep up with all the latest languages and frameworks.

Your host, Kyle Mitofsky, is a Staff Software Engineer here at Stack Overflow. With over a decade of experience as an independent contributor, manager, and team leader, he's interviewed a wide range of people and is excited to be able to share these revealing and engaging conversations, WITHOUT the pressure of an actual job interview.

Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned professional, join us as we delve into meaningful discussions that can help shape your career. We're kicking off the series by chatting with a former colleague of Kyle's, Yaakov Ellis, a long time Stack Overflow community member and employee who currently  holds a role as a Staff Engineer at Intuit.

Moderne is an open-source company building automated source code transformations for framework migrations, vulnerability patches, and API migrations. Explore the platform here.

OpenRewrite is a community-driven open source project that consists of an auto-refactoring engine that runs prepackaged refactoring recipes for common framework migrations, security fixes, and stylistic consistency tasks.

Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn.

Props to Stack Overflow user Benjamin Atkin, who earned a Populist badge by offering up some wisdom on Rails - How to refresh an association after a save.

Chris works at Sledgehammer Games (a division of Activision), which develops titles in the Call of Duty franchise. Explore their open roles here.

Want to see Chris’s engine in action? Check out COD: Modern Warfare III.

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn.

Kudos to Stack Overflow user teh.fonsi, who earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to execute 1 command x times in java. 

Clarifai is a developer-friendly AI workflow orchestration platform built to help devs integrate AI into technical workflows and customer experiences.

We’ve written about best practices for integrating AI tools into your workflows.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn or via his website. You can also read his posts on the Clarifai blog. 

Well-deserved congrats to Stack Overflow user Jay Wick, who earned a Populist badge by explaining how to Get image preview before uploading in React.

Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data, a web data platform that offers ready-made datasets, proxy networks, and AI-powered web scrapers. Developers can get started with their docs here.

ICYMI, read our blog post about the knowledge-as-a-service business model and how it will guide the future of our paid platform. 

AI answers alone aren’t knowledge.

Connect with Or on LinkedIn. 

Stack Overflow user guizo earned a Populist badge by explaining How can I minify JSON in a shell script?.

Logan previously worked at OpenAI, where he led developer relations. He’s now a senior product manager for Google AI Studio, the fastest way for devs to get started with the Gemini API. 

Logan’s team just rolled out Grounding with Google Search, a feature built to help developers get fresher, more accurate responses from the Gemini models aided by Google Search. Learn more here.

Connect with Logan on LinkedIn. 

Props to Stack Overflow user Jonik, who earned a Populist badge by explaining How to write an S3 object to a file?.

Want to learn more about the early days of React? React.js: The Documentary gives you the full story from the perspective of the developers who created it.

Vercel is a native Next.js platform.

v0 aims to democratize software development for non-technical users. Check it out here.

Listen to our recent conversation with Vercel’s VP of AI.

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn or X.

Kudos to Stack Overflow user Sodruldeen Mustapha, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to remove the environment variables from Laravel Debug?. 

Fastlane by PayPal is an accelerated guest checkout experience. Visit theFastlane Resource Center for Developers to get started.

You can find Sunny Patel on LinkedIn and on GitHub.

Find Kyle Prinsloo on X and on LinkedIn.

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner M.M who provided an answer to What does the "Expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction" error mean?

Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI.

Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs.

Connect with Ricky on LinkedIn or X. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahendra Kulkarni, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How do I get current rowindex of a table using JavaScript?. 

The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typically used by large language models.

Shayne and Robert are the authors of a new study called Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons: the first large-scale, longitudinal audit of the consent protocols for the web domains underlying AI training sets.

Connect with Shayne via his website.

Connect with Robert via his website or on LinkedIn. 

Stack Overflow user George Hawkins earned a Populist badge by explaining How to get base url in angular 5?.

Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn.

Sonar offers code quality and security solutions that help developers write clean code and remediate existing code organically. Their product SonarQube helps devs ensure the quality and security of AI-generated code.

Watch Olivier Gaudin, founder of Sonar, explain why clean code is the foundation for well-functioning dev teams.

Stack Overflow user Ogglas earned a Populist badge by explaining How to access the appsettings in Blazor WebAssembly.