Dagmawi Babi Podcast

This is my conversation with Jack, one of the most well known people in the cybersecurity and hacking community and the host of the Darknet Diaries Podcast (arguably the number one cybsersec podcast there is) Jack is also an anonymous and highly private individual. Not a lot of people know what he looks like and he often wears a hat and a bandana when in public that's why this's an audio only episode.Jack is a cybersecurity professional and the creator of the highly acclaimed podcast Darknet Diaries, which focuses on true stories about hacking, data breaches, and cybercrime. Before launching his podcast, Jack spent over a decade working in network security, specializing in securing and analyzing network equipment and also built a Security Operations Center (SOC) using a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system to detect network threats.

This is my conversation with Emre, the founder and CEO of the non-profit organization known as Africa to Silicon Valley. A2SV is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a sustainable tech ecosystem in Africa by empowering the continent’s brightest minds. Since its inception, A2SV has trained over 800 students from 20 African countries, equipping them with world-class software engineering skills and connecting them to global opportunities at companies like Google, Palantir, Databricks, Bloomberg, and Meta. Beyond education, A2SV fosters innovation through its incubator, where graduates develop cutting-edge digital solutions addressing Africa’s most pressing challenges. In this episode we talk about Emre's childhood, hobbies, faith, relationships, early career, A2SV, AI, Open-source, and so much more. Enjoy the conversation!

This is my conversation with Cameron, one of the most well known and influential people in the christian tech community. We talk about his childhood, hobbies, faith, relationships, early career, faith tools, WisePhone 2, and so many more of his amazing projects. Enjoy the conversation!

This is my conversation with Tadas, one of the most well known and influential people in the flutter community. We talk about his childhood, hobbies, faith, relationships, early career, flutter, and his new educational company called Hungrimind. Enjoy the conversation!

Guillermo is a prominent entrepreneur and the founder of Vercel and creator of NextJS, the most popular web framework. He has played a significant role in shaping Vercel into one of the fastest-growing companies in the tech industry. This is my conversation with him. Enjoy!

Episode 11 Akshay Kothari Co-founder of Notion Akshay is a prominent entrepreneur and the co-founder of Notion, a highly regarded productivity software platform. He has played a significant role in shaping Notion into one of the fastest-growing companies in the tech industry Before co-founding Notion, he graduated from Stanford University, where he was involved in developing the Pulse app during his final year. Later he served as the Vice President of Product at LinkedIn for over five years. His journey at LinkedIn began after his previous company, Pulse, was acquired by LinkedIn in 2013. This is my conversation with him. Enjoy!

Jamon is the founder of Infinite Red, US-based react native consulting team for 18 years and creators of Chain React Conference. In this conversation we talk about Jamon's upbringings, education, programming journey, companies, open source, AI, faith, hobbies and so much more. It's also an informative episode about ADHD, team building, podcasts, game dev, CTO roles and so much more. Enjoy!

Birk is building Polar, the open source and fastest way to sell SaaS and digital products. He is ex director of the product Shop at Shopify. He was also the co-founder of Tictail. In this conversation we talk about Birk's upbringings, education, programming journey, companies, open source, AI, faith, hobbies and so much more. This's a really educational conversation covering topics across AI, Open Source management, team buildiing, running a company and so much more Enjoy!

Thomas is a svelte ambassador who built MeltUI, one of the most used open source Svelte UI library and Rune, a collection of utilities built on top of Svelte's runes. This's a really educational conversation covering topics across AI, Open Source management, technical topics about Svelte and alot more. In this conversation we talk about Thomas's upbringings, education, programming journey, Svelte, MeltUI, faith, hobbies and so much more.

Viktor is a Swedish software engineer and hypertext enjoyer, working full time on an open source internet search engine called Marginalia from scratch. Viktor is a physicist by education who also built different kinds of simulation softwares. He even built a rare trinary state computer including the emulator for the processor, and IDE for his custom programming language and a compiler for it. Later on he got into building and hosting his own search engine that lets you discover interesting web pages that Google and other search engines don't show. He self hosts hundreds of terabytes of web page indexes. He even created his own distraction free encyclopedia from scratch. In this conversation we talk about Viktor's upbringings, education, programming journey, search engines, Marginalia, encyclopedia, open source, spam, AI, faith, hobbies and so much more. Enjoy!