Best Coding Raj Podcasts (2025)

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S11 E27: Raj Dosanjh, Paid 37:43

16d ago37:43

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Raj Dosanjh grew up in Coventry, which he calls the Detroit of the UK. He still enjoys following the football team, and hopes they rejuvenate the city some. He eventually left for University and moved to London. He likes to dig into how people think and how things are built. Outside of tech, he is engaged to be married in 2026. As such, he has rece…

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Human-in-the-loop AI tutoring: Raj Valli on guaranteed learning outcomes 38:56

23d ago38:56

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In this episode of Chalk and Code, host Theron Davis sits down with Raj Valli, Founder and CEO of Thinkster Math, an AI-driven tutoring company that blends patented AI with human coaches to deliver measurable outcomes in math learning. Drawing on experience across 12 industries and decades of nonprofit work in education, Raj unpacks why so many stu…

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S11 Bonus: Juan DeAngulo, Inselligence 28:10

1h ago28:10

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Juan DeAngulo was born and raised in South America - then eventually, came to the status in 2017 for college to play Tennis. He kept playing throughout college and into his 40's, at which point he switched to golf and never picked up a racket again. He's been married for 25 years, with 2 older kids - one in law school, and one studying software dev…

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How Stablecoins Scaled Cross-Border Payments to $80B w/ Daniel Vogel (Bitso) 56:08

3h ago56:08

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Presented by Stablecon; Powered by BVNK. In episode 13 of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Daniel Vogel, CEO and Co-Founder of Bitso. Daniel explains how stablecoins have quietly become core cross-border payment infrastructure in Latin America, how Bitso scaled to over $80B in annualized volume, and why local-currency st…

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Developer Chats - Petr Petrenko of Bumble 14:44

3h ago14:44

14:44

Today, we are continuing our series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves. In this episode, we are talking with Petr Petrenko, Senior PHP Backend Engineer at Bumble. Petr will take us through his developer journey, in working on large scale backends, managing the tension between stability and innovation…

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AI, open source, and the new entry-level: Tyler Menezes on preparing students for tech careers 45:13

2d ago45:13

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In this episode of Chalk and Code, host Theron Davis sits down with Tyler Menezes, CEO of CodeDay, a nonprofit that creates welcoming, project-based experiences for underserved students to explore a future in technology through 24-hour coding events and open source–focused internships. Tyler shares his journey from Y Combinator–backed startup found…

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S11 E29: Sarah Lucena, Mappa 28:23

3h ago28:23

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Sarah Lucena lives in San Francisco, and starts here day at 4:30 am to lead her LATAM team. She's originally from Brazil, born and raised on the north east side of the country. She studied in South Paulo, and spent 5 years in Uruguay, which was a huge influence in her career today. Outside of tech, she is a big cat lover, having 2 at her home. When…

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S11 Bonus: Tucker Callaway, Mezmo 23:34

1h ago23:34

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Tucker Calloway grew up in Alamo, California, in the Easy Bay Area. And has returned to that area to raise his family - 25-30 minutes outside of the San Francisco area. He studied computer science at Cal, but eventually moved into sales engineering - and then sales. But outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids - one in college, and one in the lat…

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Why Enterprises Are Moving Billions Into Onchain Lending w/ Paul Frambot (Morpho) 40:00

7d ago40:00

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Presented by Stablecon; Powered by BVNK. In episode 12 of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh are joined by Paul Frambot, CEO of Morpho, a leading lending protocol. Paul explains how Morpho became the lending stack behind players like Coinbase by acting as infrastructure, not a fund, and by letting curators design their own markets. He l…

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Rebuilding at Scale: Nolan Frausto on Simplicity, Stability, and Early Learning Innovation 27:05

9d ago27:05

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In this episode of Chalk and Code, host Jennilee Bertrand talks with Nolan Frausto, CTO of AdaptedMind, about what it takes to scale a learning platform for millions of young children. Nolan shares why the team rebuilt their entire engineering system, how the “boring stack” philosophy drives reliability, and why early learning requires a careful ba…

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S11 E28: Hojjat Jafarpour, DeltaStream 22:12

2d ago22:12

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Hojjat Jafarpour lives with his family in California. He got his PhD in databases and data streaming, back when the landscape was different and data streaming wasn't "cool" yet. He was an early member at Confluent, but also spent time at Quantcast, Informatica, and NEC Labs. Outside of tech, he has a family with young kids. He enjoys traveling, and…

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Developer Chats - Svyatoslav Babinets of Meta 31:28

1d ago31:28

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Today, we are kicking off a new series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves. In this episode, we are talking with Svyatoslav Babinets, Engineering Manager at Meta. Svyatoslav helps to illuminate teh approaches he takes when building larger scale systems, connecting millions of users, and motivating use…

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S11 Bonus: Spriha Baruah Tucker, Buildkite 37:57

12d ago37:57

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Spriha Baruah Tucker has spent time in a number of places - growing up in India, attending boarding school in Singapore, and now living in San Francisco. She spent many years at Google, before founding her own startup called Aviator. Outside of tech, she really likes music, having a soft spot in her heart for Bollywood, but really digging into the …

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S11 Bonus: Gajus Kuizinas, Contra 20:57

8d ago20:57

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Gajus Kuizinas lives in Mexico City, and travels between there, New York and San Francisco. He had a non-traditional upbringing for an engineer, as all of his family were into the arts - so he had to make his own way. He started in Lithuania, and eventually was recruiting to setup computers and networks for dating platforms. Eventually, he got into…

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How Stablecoins Fix Broken FX Markets w/ Chris Maurice (Yellow Card) 57:22

14d ago57:22

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Presented by Stablecon; Powered by BVNK In episode 11 of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh are joined by Chris Maurice, Founder and CEO of Yellow Card, a leading stablecoin payments company serving emerging markets. Dollar liquidity is the choke point of emerging-market commerce, and the traditional system forces businesses into inform…

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The Railsware Way - Mistakes & Lessons in Product Evolution, with Oleksii Ianchuk 26:14

15d ago26:14

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Today, we are dropping our final episode in the series "The Railsware Way", sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses - services and products. They have created amazing products like Mailtrap, Coupler and TitanApps, while also partnering with teams like Calendly and Bright Bytes. They de…

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How Vaults Bring Transparent, Programmable Yields w/ Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet) 1:12:12

21d ago1:12:12

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Presented by Stablecon, Powered by BVNK In episode 10 of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh are joined by Tarun Chitra, Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a leading vault curator. We explore DeFi’s evolution and how the industry has converged on “vault curation”. DeFi vaults are the onchain analogue of ETFs or credit funds, but with 24/7 l…

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Season Favorite - Emmanuel Straschnov, Bubble 28:01

23d ago28:01

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Emmanuel Straschnov grew up in rural France, which is interestingly enough where he started doing computer stuff (he mentioned there wasn't much else to do in the 90's). He grew up sailing, as he lived next to the shore in Normandy. He never really thought he would end up coding, but after obtaining his MBA, he ended up doing just that. Outside of …

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Unbreakable: How to Thrive Under Fear-Based Leaders with Kate Lowry 16:10

28d ago16:10

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Today, we have a special guest on the podcast, Kate Lowry, CEO coach, author and comedian. She is a long time startup founder, spent time in VC, is leading a values driven coaching and advising firm called Scaleheart, and recently, just published a book. The title of the book is Unbreakable: How to Thrive Under Fear-Based Leaders, and is a tactical…

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Stablecoin Use Cases From Dollar Access to Onchain Lending w/ Cuy Sheffield (Visa) 1:08:50

28d ago1:08:50

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Presented by Stablecon Media and Powered by BVNK In episode 9 of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parej are joined by Visa’s Cuy Sheffield to discuss how stablecoins move from speculation to real-world finance: dollar access at global scale, stablecoin-linked cards, cross-border flows, and the next frontier (onchain lending and agentic payme…

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The Railsware Way - How an MBA Helps (or doesn't) Product Mgmt, with Julia Starun 20:27

29d ago20:27

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Today, we are another episode in our series, sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses - services and products. They have created amazing products like Mailtrap, Coupler and TitanApps, while also partnering with teams like Calendly and Bright Bytes. They deliver amazing products, and hav…

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Redesigning Mandarin Learning: How hihilulu Connects Pedagogy, Technology, and Classroom Practice 38:23

1M ago38:23

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In this episode of Chalk and Code, Jennifer Huang, Founder and CEO at hihilulu, joins us to explore why so many young learners struggle with Mandarin — and what changes when instruction is redesigned around the true structure of the language. From character-first literacy to dualism pedagogy, Jennifer shares how hihilulu builds learning experiences…

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S11 E27: Marco Rodrigues, Exaforce 26:42

1M ago26:42

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Marco Rodrigues was born and raised in Canada, but now lives in the Bay Area. His tech genesis was around the time when the internet came out, when he spent an entire summer indoors, worrying his mother. He eventually attended university in Toronto, and went to work for Juniper Networks. Past that, he went towards the startup world - running produc…

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Fraud Awareness Week - How SEON is your Fraud & AML Command Center with Husnain Bajwa 25:11

1M ago25:11

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Today, we have a special episode correlated with Fraud awareness week, and brought to you by our friends at SEON - the command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance. SEON connects first party data signals to show you what other solutions can't - by enriching data, understanding context, and taking action from one place... to prevent fraud.…

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S11 Bonus: Praveen Ghanta, Fraction & DevHawk 37:08

1M ago37:08

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Praveen Ghanta recently turned 47 and started to look at the things he wanted to do - but potentially couldn't do in the future. He's married with 3 teenage kids, and has been into running for quite some time. So much so, that he attempted to run a 5 minute mile... and almost made it. Also, he recently signed up for soccer classes, after having bee…

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Tokenized Deposits vs Stablecoins: Inside JPMorgan’s Kinexys w/ Naveen Mallela 40:39

1M ago40:39

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Presented by Stablecon Media and Powered by BVNK In episode 8 of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh are joined by Naveen Mallela, Global Co-Head of Kinexys at J.P. Morgan. They discussed the vision for Kinexys, how deposit tokens like JPMD differ from stablecoins, and how interoperability, credit creation, and just-in-time liquidity wil…

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Building Culture Through Learning: How CypherWorx Connects Purpose, People, and Professional Growth 48:53

1M ago48:53

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In this episode of Chalk and Code, Steve Stookey, Vice President and CCO at CypherWorx, joins us to explore how purpose-driven professional development can transform the way organizations learn and lead. From training design to technology integration, Steve shares how CypherWorx builds learning experiences that adapt to each organization’s unique c…

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The Railsware Way – Conversational Analytics & Data Focused Products, with Nika Tamayo Flores 22:26

1M ago22:26

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Today, we are another episode in our series, sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses - services and products. They have created amazing products like Mailtrap, Coupler and TitanApps, while also partnering with teams like Calendly and Bright Bytes. They deliver amazing products, and hav…

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S11 E25: Chris Wallis, Intruder 20:23

1M ago20:23

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Chris Wallis lives in London, and grew up on a farm in the UK. He was the kid running around the countryside climbing trees - until his parents bought a computer when he was 15. Past that point, he didn't leave the house much, learning to code and digging into ethical hacking. Outside of tech, he is into tennis, swimming, alpine skiing and surfing.…

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S11 Bonus: Erez Druk, Freed 23:56

1M ago23:56

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Erez Druk grew up in Israel, but has been in the Bay Area for many years. He has a common theme in his life of obsessing over his current thing. In the 4th grade it was the saxophone, and later on it was being Israel's board game champion, and then - he became obsessed with startups. Outside of tech, he is married and expecting his first child. He'…

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The Railsware Way - Delivering Value through BRIDGeS, with Sergiy Korolov 24:14

1M ago24:14

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Today, we are another episode in our series, sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses - services and products. They have created amazing products like Mailtrap, Coupler and TitanApps, while also partnering with teams like Calendly and Bright Bytes. They deliver amazing products, and hav…

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