Podcast interviews with the people behind the tech
Every episode is a candid, long-form conversation — no scripts, no PR polish — with the engineers, language designers, and open-source maintainers whose work quietly shapes the tools we all use every day.
Episode 15: Interview with Yan Zhu, Privacy Engineer
Yan Zhu is renowned security and privacy engineer. She is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Brave and a Technology Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is…
Episode 14: Interview with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress
Matt Mullenweg is an American online social media entrepreneur and founder of WordPress. He founded Automattic and currently serving as CEO. Interview … Pramod: Hello people, welcome to Mapping the…
Episode 13: Interview with Damian Conway, designer of Perl 6 programming language
Damian Conway is a computer scientist, a member of the Perl community and the author of several books. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to CPAN and Perl…
Episode 12: Interview with Andrey Breslav, Lead Language Designer of Kotlin
Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer for Kotlin, began his career at Borland, where he worked on language implementations for MDA support. After spending a few years as a college…
Episode 11: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL database language
Don Chamberlin holds a B.S. degree from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. For many years, he worked at Almaden Research Center, researching database languages and systems.…
Episode 10: Interview with Rob Das, Chief Architect & Co-Founder at Splunk
Rob Das co-founded Splunk and has served as Chief Architect since 2005. He also served as Vice President, member of the board of directors. Previously, Mr. Das has been a…
Episode 9: Interview with Abhay Bhushan, author of File Transfer Protocol
Abhay Bhushan is one of the early pioneers of the internet. He’s the inventor of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP); an application layer protocol of the Internet protocol suite, and…
Episode 8: Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
Ryan Dahl is a Software Engineer working at Google Brain. He is the creator of Node.js, JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Currently, he is working on deep…
Episode 6: Interview with Dave Cheney, Go Language Contributor
Dave Cheney is a prolific programmer, top Go Contributor, blogger (his blog on Go dave.cheney.net is very famous) and now an author as well. He is a speaker and also…
Episode 3: Interview with James Gosling, Father of Java
James Gosling is one of the best computer engineers on the planet, a famous developer, and a world-class innovator. He is the Father of Java. He spent many years as…
Episode 2: Interview with Alex Martelli, Python Guru
Alex Martelli is computer engineer, Python Guru and fellow of the Python Software Foundation. He is currently working at Google and author of book, Python in a Nutshell, co-editor of…