Startups, AI, and Nectir with Jordan Long
Ardan Labs Podcast16 Huhti 2025

Startups, AI, and Nectir with Jordan Long

In this episode, Bill Kennedy interviews Jordan Long, co-founder and CTO of Nectir. They discuss Jordan's journey from high school in Hawaii to college at UCSB, his early interests in music and technology, and the challenges he faced in finding his path. Jordan shares his experiences with entrepreneurship, including his initial idea for a rideshare platform and the eventual creation of Nectir, a platform designed to connect students in the same classes. The conversation highlights the importa...

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Orchestration in Go with Tim Boring

Orchestration in Go with Tim Boring

Tim Boring is a senior software engineer at Voltus and author of the book “Build an Orchestrator in Go.” Tim’s story shows us that many programming careers are far from linear. We learn about his stru...

2 Maalis 20221h 25min

Calculated Risk Taking with Blain Smith

Calculated Risk Taking with Blain Smith

Blain Smith is a senior software engineer at Subspace. From a young age, Blain knew he wanted to pursue a career in tech. We hear about his tough decision to leave university, working for Harvard, usi...

16 Helmi 20221h 26min

The Value of Mentorship with Melissa Trebell

The Value of Mentorship with Melissa Trebell

Melissa Trebell is a full stack engineer for Punchcard Systems (Previously at TrustBix). Although she had an affinity for computers in high school, Melissa wasn’t sure if this was something she wante...

2 Helmi 20221h 14min

Programming on Paper with Henry Erabor

Programming on Paper with Henry Erabor

Ehioje Henry Erabor is a senior software engineer at BFREE. Growing up in Nigeria in the 1990’s, programming was not common in schools. Henry recalls a memory of his class being brought to the compute...

19 Tammi 20221h 11min

Connecting Developers in Alaska with Jeff Levin

Connecting Developers in Alaska with Jeff Levin

Jeff Levin is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and the former director of the Alaska Developer’s Alliance. Growing up in Alaska, Jeff was constantly drawn to computers. Going so far as to memorize t...

5 Tammi 20221h 34min

Finding a Model for Open-Source with Alex Ellis

Finding a Model for Open-Source with Alex Ellis

Alex Ellis is the Founder of OpenFaaS, an open-source project focused on making it simple to deploy serverless functions with containers. Alex tells stories of breaking the family computer with Linux,...

22 Joulu 20211h 20min

Music, Dot-com Websites, and Helping Others with Martin Gallagher

Music, Dot-com Websites, and Helping Others with Martin Gallagher

Martin Gallagher is a specialist Go recruiter, matching developers with interesting companies across Europe. Many people out there may have a negative impression of recruiters, but every so-often you ...

8 Joulu 20211h 24min

Open Source, Internet Security, and Nature with Matt Holt

Open Source, Internet Security, and Nature with Matt Holt

Matt Holt is the creator of popular open source projects like Caddy Web Server, CertMagic, PapaParse, & others. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to maintain open source projects full-time...

24 Marras 20211h 15min