J-Frog is a DevOps platform that specializes in managing software packages and automating software delivery.

One of its best-known services is the J-Frog Artifactory, which is a universal artifact repository.

J-Frog is also focused on rapidly emerging needs and the MLOps space.

Bill Manning is a senior solution architect at J-Frog.

He joins the podcast to talk about his background in startups and venture capital

and his current work in ML at JFrog.

This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer.

Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to the show. Well, thank you so much for having me, Sean. I'm really looking

forward to this today. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for being here. So I'm excited to talk,

you know, more about JFrog and DevSecOps and some of your areas of expertise. But first of all, I wanted to dive in a little bit of your background. Like, who are you? What do you do? Explain your role with J-Frog.

Yeah, absolutely. So I've been with J-Frog coming until almost eight years now. Prior to J-Frog, I've been doing this for a long time.

I started my career around 97. Yes, I'm not old, and that's what I do. But like, I've had a

very successful run. I've had three acquisitions. One of the things I've done since I began my career

was always picked different technologies every time. First company I had was a first web-based CRM platform. A lot of the people that were there

went on to form things like Marquetto and Sugar CRM and Salesforce. Next company I did was email

encryption and security and we sold that to Cisco in 2006. Third company was IoT before IOT

was even a thing. It was called For Home, was the Connected Device Company. We sold that to Motorola

and Google in 2010. I was a venture capitalist for a bit. I was the connected device company. We sold that to Motorola and Google in 2010.

I was a venture capitalist for a bit.

I was with Vodafone Ventures.

I was senior media partner.

Then another company called XTV about media consumption took the public in Australia.

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