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 222 Episodes.
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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
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Episode 176: The Argument Dilution Effect
April 16th, 2019 | 41 mins 36 secs
ai-generated people, android, argument dilution effect, google, hipster effect, human blinders, interpretive dance, jabbrrbox, reading, the weeds podcast, todoist, vendor abandonment
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk
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Episode 175: Happy Quit
February 26th, 2019 | 35 mins 34 secs
ad experience optimization, adam sandler, amazon, gmail priority inbox, happy quit, inbox infinity, inbox zero, propaganda, umbrella academy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about old school propaganda optimization, new school propaganda optimization, new school ad experience optimization, and new school, new school email optimization
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Episode 174: Success Is a Powerful Excuse
February 12th, 2019 | 25 mins 46 secs
ai, amazon, animal bands, cleveland, fibonacci, lyft, monopsony, pufferfish, spanish, walmart
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Walmart, Amazon, Spanish phrases we should be using, and AI-generated phrases we should be using?
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Episode 173: Digital Nomad
January 29th, 2019 | 39 mins 25 secs
cancún, digital nomad, freya, independent george, knoxville, playa del carmen
This week Dave talks with Camille Tuutti about her metamorphosis from DC resident to digital nomad!
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Episode 172: My Favorite Things, Part 3
January 8th, 2019 | 39 mins 25 secs
1password, chromebook, dark sky, duolingo, firefox, google fit, google voice, just press record, lastpass, mi band, runkeeper, runtastic, sleep cycle, ublock origin, video speed controller
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 3)
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Episode 171: My Favorite Things, Part 2
December 18th, 2018 | 22 mins 1 sec
boomerang for gmail, eisenhower decision matrix, gmail priority inbox, google calendar, google inbox, grammarly, headspace, todoist
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 2)