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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Foreign Languages, Pharmaceuticals, and Pascal with Renee Richards

Foreign Languages, Pharmaceuticals, and Pascal with Renee Richards

Renee Richards is a Programmer Analyst for Carepoint, Inc. Renee has been a software developer for two years after spending most of her life as a pharmacy technician. We hear about how she made the to...

21 Heinä 202154min

Sharing Knowledge to Level Up Society with Nic Jackson

Sharing Knowledge to Level Up Society with Nic Jackson

Nic Jackson is a Principal Developer Advocate for HashiCorp. He’s also the author of the book Building Microservices with Go and an avid speaker on all things microservices. We learn about his first j...

24 Kesä 20211h 13min

Using Your Powers for Good with John Reese

Using Your Powers for Good with John Reese

John Reese is a Senior Software Engineer at Yubico. He is also an active contributor to the open source projects Konstraint and Conftest. John’s foray into programming started a bit earlier than most,...

9 Kesä 20211h

Coffee, Code, and Career Transitions with Jessica Greene

Coffee, Code, and Career Transitions with Jessica Greene

Jessica Greene is a Backend Developer with Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees. We talk about film, the science of coffee, and what caused her to pivot her career into tech. Jessica shares ins...

26 Touko 20211h 2min

Finding Your Superpower with Kris Nóva

Finding Your Superpower with Kris Nóva

Kris Nóva is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Twilio Inc. We hear about her incredible journey from a nerdy teen installing Linux on the family computer to becoming an outspoken voice in the te...

12 Touko 202156min

Finding the Balance Between Art and Technology with Anthony Starks

Finding the Balance Between Art and Technology with Anthony Starks

Anthony Starks is an engineer, designer and consultant with a focus on data visualization. But we might also call him an artist. Growing up with a love for photography and computers, Anthony has long ...

28 Huhti 20211h 1min

Identifying Trends and Adapting to Change with Michael Gasch

Identifying Trends and Adapting to Change with Michael Gasch

Michael Gasch is a Staff Engineer in the Office of the CTO at VMware. Growing up around his father’s business, the seeds were planted for his love of technology. Michael spent many years pursuing a ca...

14 Huhti 20211h 11min

Tenacity, Independence and Problem Solving with Vanesa Ortiz

Tenacity, Independence and Problem Solving with Vanesa Ortiz

Vanesa Ortiz is a community advocate at Sourcegraph and the founder of the Women Who Go - Berlin chapter. We learn about Vanesa’s incredible journey from freelancing at age 13 to interviewing for a Go...

31 Maalis 20211h 13min