Dash Open 14: How Verizon Media’s Data Platforms Team Uses and Contributes to Open Source

In this episode, Gil Yehuda (Sr. Director, Open Source) interviews Mujib Wahab (Sr. Director, Software Dev Engineering)and Henry Avetisyan (Distinguished Software Dev Engineer). Mujib and Henry discuss why Verizon Media open sourced Athenz, a platform for X.509 Certificate-based Service Authentication and Authorization. They also share how others can use and contribute to Athenz. Learn more at https://www.athenz.io.

In this episode, Ashley Wolf, Open Source Program Manager, interviews Eran Shapira, Software Development Engineering Manager, Verizon Media. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Eran manages the video activation team. Eran shares about his team’s focus, which technology he’s most excited about right now, the value of presenting at meetups, and his advice for being a great team member.

In this episode, Rosalie Bartlett, Sr. Open Source Community Manager, interviews Shaunak Mishra, Sr. Research Scientist, Verizon Media. Shaunak discusses two papers he presented at Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - “Understanding Consumer Journey using Attention-based Recurrent Neural Networks” and “Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”.

In this episode, Gil Yehuda, Sr. Director of Open Source, interviews Joshua Simmons, Vice President, Open Source Initiative (OSI). Joshua shares about the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a global non-profit championing software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure. Joshua also discusses trends in the open source landscape and potential future changes.

In this episode, Rosalie Bartlett, Sr. Open Source Community Manager, interviews Neil McGovern, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation. Neil shares how he originally became involved with open source, the industry changes he has observed, and his focus at the GNOME Foundation - a non-profit organization that furthers the goals of the GNOME Project, helping it to create a free software computing platform for the general public that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use.

In this episode, Rosalie Bartlett, Sr. Open Source Community Manager, interviews Rachel Roumeliotis, Vice President of Content Strategy at O'Reilly Media. Rachel reflects on OSCON 2019, what to expect at OSCON 2020, where the industry is going, and how she empowers her team to be great storytellers.

In this episode, Gil Yehuda, Sr. Director of Open Source, interviews Michael Martin, Associate General Counsel and Head of Patents at Verizon Media. Mike shares why Contributor License Agreements (also known as CLAs) came to be and some of the reasons they don’t work as well as we’d hope. Fundamentally, we need to foster trust among people who don't know each other and have no reason to trust each other. Without it, we're not going to be able to build these incredibly complex things that require us to work together. Do CLAs do that? Listen and find out.

In this episode, Rosalie Bartlett, Sr. Open Source Community Manager, interviews Tom Miller, Director of Software Development Engineering on the Data Platforms and Systems Engineering Team at Verizon Media. Tom shares how his team uses and contributes to open source. Tom also chats about empowering his team to do great work and what it’s like to live and work in Champaign, IL.

In this episode, Rosalie Bartlett, Sr. Open Source Community Manager, interviews Eric Badger, Software Dev Engineer, about using and contributing to Hadoop at Verizon Media.

In this episode, Rosalie Bartlett, Sr. Open Source Community Manager, interviews Kishor Patil, Sr. Principal Software Systems Engineer on the Verizon Media team. Kishor shares what’s new in Storm 2.0, an open source distributed real-time computation system, as well as, how Verizon Media uses and contributes to Storm.