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 154: Filter Out the Humans
March 8th, 2018 | 45 mins 24 secs
allen curve, camille tuutti, captcha, google home, nostradomus, twitter
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake followers faking people, real people trying to be fake bots to be successful fake people, and applying the Allen Curve to avoid turning into your enemies
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Episode 153: Min svävare är fylld med cyborgs
February 22nd, 2018 | 22 mins 44 secs
This week Dave talks with Camille Tuutti about government change agents and chip implants!
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Episode 152: A Rasputin with Dreadlocks
February 8th, 2018 | 31 mins 52 secs
aliexpress, brushing, coreos, jaron lanier, linkedin, ripple, steelers, tinder
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: from Tinder with love, from China with hair bands, and from law enforcement with malware
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Episode 151: The masses have sharp eyes
January 18th, 2018 | 45 mins 20 secs
black mirror, lede, meltdown, openwrt, pagers, scotus, social credit score, spectre, tesla
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: security awareness meets art, the Supreme Court meets fantasy sports, your Party loyalty meets your credit score, and some Russians meet in San Francisco
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Episode 150: Stubbornness and Vanity
December 19th, 2017 | 40 mins 35 secs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: bots that want to be your lawyer, bots that want to waste scammers’ time, bots that want to be your therapist, and bots that want to be your friend
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Episode 149: Bully Stick
December 5th, 2017 | 31 mins 34 secs
beef pizzle, bully stick, facebook, open technology fund
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about a communications device nobody wants, domain names nobody wants, TV standards nobody wants, and pictures Facebook wants
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Episode 148: Our Friend Adrian
November 21st, 2017 | 15 mins 14 secs
ansible, red hat government symposium, red hat mobile
This week Dave talks with Adrian Keward about Ansible use in public sector and lessons learned from public sector customers around the globe
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Episode 147: Dadbag
October 31st, 2017 | 40 mins 9 secs
akron, coinhive, cryptojacking, dadbag, pacemakers, pocket, tom bihn, travel, unicode
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Game Boys in your medical devices, unicode in your domain names, cryptocurrency miners in your browser, and commercial software in your national security systems
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Episode 146: The Mutability of History
August 31st, 2017 | 39 mins 49 secs
biometrics, fashion, keystroke logging, meetings, number stations, pacemakers, waze
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming
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Episode 145: Mark Giveth, Mark Taketh Away
August 22nd, 2017 | 39 mins 27 secs
audit, btrfs, nbde, openscap, overlayfs, permabit, rhel, security, selinux, storage, usbguard
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about RHEL 7.4 security and storage, and how to kill a feature
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Episode 144: Mark Thacker: Product Management Zelig
August 15th, 2017 | 12 mins 34 secs
open organization, technical product management
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about technical product management and getting things done in open source and proprietary organizations
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Episode 143: Ostensibly Helpful, But Actually Dangerous
August 1st, 2017 | 40 mins 36 secs
fast forward, running, tom bihn, vpns, wings
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about things that are ostensibly helpful, but actually dangerous: robotic tutors, voice modulators, autocomplete, and the hellscape of Android VPN apps
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Episode 142: Spring Cleaning
July 25th, 2017 | 36 mins 48 secs
airgaps, airpods, chat systems, orange vests
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about power with stomach fluids (and blood), networks with light, and communication networks without people.
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Episode 141: Download This Podcast Or We Shoot This CloudPet
April 25th, 2017 | 22 mins 31 secs
cloudpets, clowns, kiss, ransomware
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: remotely controlling dolls, remotely controlling computers, remotely controlling football teams, and remotely controlling TVs (but w/o a TV remote control)
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Episode 140: Hansel and Gretel
April 18th, 2017 | 23 mins 30 secs
containers, crio, docker, oci, summit
This week Dave talks with Dan Walsh about what he’s saying at Red Hat Summit including how to increase Linux container community participation!
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Episode 139: Travel and Leisure
March 7th, 2017 | 14 mins 8 secs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Taxi drones, adult wrapping, and carrying strangers’ things on airplanes for profit.