David Egts
Co-Host of Dave & Gunnar Show
David Egts is MuleSoft's first-ever Public Sector field CTO. He is the executive-level connective tissue between MuleSoft and top public sector decision makers and influencers globally. In C-suite meetings, presentations, and his expansive thought leadership platform, he draws on decades of technical expertise to help agencies integrate, automate, accelerate, and innovate service delivery. Internally, David applies his deep industry knowledge to help ensure current and future government requirements are factored into existing products and R&D efforts.
Outside of MuleSoft, David is the founding co-chair of the WashingtonExec CTO Council and advises numerous companies on commercializing open source software and working with the public sector industry.
David received industry-wide recognition as an FCW Federal 100 winner, FedScoop 50 Industry Leadership awardee, and one of WashingtonExec’s Top Cloud Executives to Watch. He has won multiple highest employee honors from Red Hat, Silicon Graphics, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation.
David is a three-time graduate from the University of Pittsburgh with a BS and MS in Computer Science and an Executive MBA. When not behind a computer keyboard, he's often found on his motorcycle or behind his drum kit.
David Egts has hosted 212 Episodes.
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Episode 192: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
April 17th, 2020 | 49 mins 3 secs
allegheny shredders, amazon dating, apple, colors.lol, covid-19, goodrx, google, if you give a mouse a cookie, imisstheoffice, instacart, nonviolent communication, radiolab, robot cooks, sam's club, singapore, the meritocracy trap, word choice
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the pros and cons of virus tracking, health data tracking, robot cooks, and word choice
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Episode 191: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a potato
April 6th, 2020 | 24 mins
404 pages, affetto, ai gregorian chants, color palettes, donotpay, financial times, gpt-2, mcdonalds, robot lawyer, robot pain, snap camera, standardtoilet, the prayer, toilets
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robot prayers, robot law, robot pain, and people pain
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Episode 190: Calendar bankruptcy, or when was the last time you got good news in a telegram?
March 31st, 2020 | 38 mins 32 secs
airplane window, biometrics, blood pressure, calendar, coronavirus, covid-19, dancing, dancing biometrics, email, gps, stained glass, voight-kampff, zuckerbot
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about location identification, dance identification, and blood pressure identification
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Episode 189: Marlie Moxinspike
February 27th, 2020 | 39 mins 52 secs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about doomsday bunker timeshares, cops, robbers, and moldy bread
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Episode 188: Lemonade Stand for Plagues
February 6th, 2020 | 30 mins 50 secs
airpod carrying straps, beria, bulletproof hoodies, buskill, civilization and capitalization, corona beer, coronavirus, haiku, lacroix, lemonade stand, meetings, openstreetmap, pet masks, pharmasim, plague inc., pocket, pro-time, proactive time, udev, venture capitalists, welsh
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally.
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Episode 187: Empathy at Scale
December 10th, 2019 | 43 mins 46 secs
ai, cangaroo, cognizant, content moderation, electric scooters, face scanning, facebook, fantastic mr. fox, great courses, h.p. lovecraft, helmet, job interviews, pogo sticks, repo men, the spy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Facebook content moderator jobs, scooter repo man jobs, AI job interviews, and a pogo stick franchise opportunity?
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Episode 186: The Gig Economy of Dead Drops
November 21st, 2019 | 27 mins 26 secs
ai, ai faces, air travel, armrests, beastie boys, dadbag, east cleveland, folding laundry, gig economy, middle seat, mugshots, neighbor, rhel, rhel 8, sabotage, self-storage, sketching, skin-on interface, warshipping
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reinventing the human-computer interface, reinventing self-storage, reinventing wardriving, and reinventing the middle seat.
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Episode 185: In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
November 14th, 2019 | 35 mins 42 secs
airplane mode, brainex, china, concepts, gun-shaped cell phone cases, human-monkey chimeras, makeup, pig brains, robot blood, robot fish, the great courses, this war of mine
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reviving pig brains from the dead, making human-monkey chimeras, and whether we should be doing either
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Episode 184: Orrin Inside
October 11th, 2019 | 28 mins 22 secs
5g, ai, aurora, black hat, ceph, def con, eclypsium, exascale computing, fpgas, intel corporation, iot, sharks
This week Dave talks with Steve Orrin about silicon, security, Ceph, and sharks
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Episode 183: Failure Is an Option
September 20th, 2019 | 25 mins 56 secs
amazon, antivirus, apollo, bitcoin, cpap, emma long metropolitan park, facehugger, microsoft teams, public relations, ring, samsung, slack, slackification, zip bomb
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about failing with public relations, failing with smart TVs, failing with zip files, and failing with collaboration tools
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Episode 182: Stochastic Fakery
August 13th, 2019 | 27 mins 54 secs
8chan, ai, artificial intelligence, censorship, china, dominance, espionage, fake news, hov, neflix, speech2face, stochastic terrorism, unnecessary inventions, video conferencing
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about faking faces, faking friends, faking holes, faking dominance, and faking work
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Episode 181: Freedom Is Slavery
July 9th, 2019 | 35 mins 33 secs
ai, amazon basics, calljoy, camping towels, centaur, dark, duplex, google, holsters, pockets, quake, recaptcha, rhel 8, structurelessness, telegram, uber, uncaptcha, user inyerface
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order)
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Episode 180: Everything's Better with Googly Eyes
June 18th, 2019 | 34 mins 19 secs
barton springs pool, blood, dna, dui, dwi, fraud, googly eyes, rude boy, teschner's
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about blood, sweat, tears, DNA, and googly eyes
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Episode 179: Jabbrrbox
June 11th, 2019 | 38 mins 52 secs
cafe x, clear, introverts, jabbrrbox, pops, priority pass, quiet, registered traveller, uber
This week Dave talks with Jeremy Jennings about Jabbrbox!
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Episode 178: Culture of Sincerity
June 4th, 2019 | 30 mins 14 secs
chernobyl, d&d, deadwood, facebook, karaoke, neighbors, online dating, ring, secret crush, social credit, social credit system, turing test
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fear of deadbeats, fear of karaoke, fear of secret crushes, and fear of doorbells
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Episode 177: The Big Clapper
April 30th, 2019 | 32 mins 24 secs
bigclapper, game of thrones, guts game, party questions, robots
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robots that want to clap, robots that want to live, and robots that want to deliver coffee