May 26, 2026 · 32 min · 15 segments
In our latest episode, we sit down with Julia Mullaney, co-founder of Exceptional Difference, award-winning engineer, and leadership expert. From her standout career at IBM to working alongside…
Julia MullaneyGuest
Samantha BernalHost
Um, Julia, I'd love to kind of start at the beginning of kind of where it all began before we kind of dive into the whole larger engineering and leadership themes.
You've talked about a lifelong commitment to changing the world of software engineering.
So, you know, I started, you know, doing research on speech recognition, and then I ultimately went to IBM for a couple years.
And then I came back to Pittsburgh, and I started working at the Software Engineering Institute, and I started working for this gentleman named Watts Humphrey, who really became my mentor over the next 30 years, and he is known as the Father of Software Quality.
You know, we would plan our, our projects and, you know, so he told us his objective was to change the world of software engineering and, you know, he wanted us to commit to be on board with him.
Um, Julia, I'd love to kind of start at the beginning of kind of where it all began before we kind of dive into the whole larger engineering and leadership themes.
You've talked about a lifelong commitment to changing the world of software engineering.
So, you know, I started, you know, doing research on speech recognition, and then I ultimately went to IBM for a couple years.
And then I came back to Pittsburgh, and I started working at the Software Engineering Institute, and I started working for this gentleman named Watts Humphrey, who really became my mentor over the next 30 years, and he is known as the Father of Software Quality.
You know, we would plan our, our projects and, you know, so he told us his objective was to change the world of software engineering and, you know, he wanted us to commit to be on board with him.
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