Episode 375: A Technical CTO with Frank Lamantia
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Show Notes
Brittany and Brian are joined with Frank Lamantia, CTO for Bold Penguin. His background is in software engineering; he likes to call himself a recovering Java developer. He runs product management, software engineering, cloud & site-reliability engineering, information security, and internal IT. The trio discuss the recent Bold Penguin feature on the Stack Overflow Podcast and Bold Penguin's hiring practices.
Show Notes & Links:
- Bold Penguin
- Stack Overflow Podcast | Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developers?
- Frank Lamantia | LinkedIn
- Contact Brian Mariani at Mirror Placement
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