If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:25 - Who is Tyler and what is his background? 06:35 - What do Catawiki do? 12:45 - How tough is objective 1 to reach for a CTO? 15:49 - What changes has Tyler brought to Catawiki and what impact has it had on the teams? 28:53 - How does team communication work at Catawiki? 31:42 - Does your approach change within different guilds or teams? 34:48 - What are the differences in team structures between European a...
Apr 24, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 110
If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:10 - Intro in Azeem & Attune. 04:05 - Commercial mindset software engineers are adopting - why? 06:15 - How customers interact with Attune? 09:10 - Is Attune industry-wide? 09:57 - What challenges are Attune tackling and solving? 13:27 - How Machine Learning Models & AI have impacted Attune? 15:35 - What is a Software Wrapper? 16:27 - What was the turning point in Attune that helped utilise AI? 19:15 ...
Apr 17, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 109
If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:27 - Intro to Fred. 02:50 - When did the transition from Data Science to Software Engineering happen? 04:40 - Who are Kraken? 07:21 - What has the growth been like at Kraken and how are the engineering standards maintained? 09:29 - What are conventions and what do they look like at Kraken? 13:04 - How is developer ownership and autonomy related? 15:44 - What are the engineering challenges at Kraken? 18:15 - W...
Apr 10, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 108
If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:33 - Background into Dimitra. 03:37 - Where has the CPTO role emerged from? 05:51 - How can the structure of an organisation change with the introduction of a CPTO? 08:13 - How does implementing “Winning by design” benefit the organisation? 10:32 - Where is the role of a CPTO most prevalent? 12:31 - How does having a CPTO change the role and mindset of a software engineer? 13:34 - How do you approach this rol...
Apr 03, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 107
If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Intro to Enginears. 01:16 - Intro to Thoughtful. 02:44 - Who is Jesal? 06:48 - What is the difference between a bespoke platform compared to an all-in-one platform product? 08:57 - What challenges do Thoughtful face in the HealthTech industry? 11:45 - Why is developer experience so important and what are important factors to consider when building a great developer experience? 13:57 - What impact has Thoughtful had on healthcare...
Mar 27, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 106
If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Enginears intro. 01:16 - Introducing Soren and his past career. 03:20 - What can users expect from Crosshatch? 06:25 - What is hyper personalisation? 10:20 - What is meant by the rise in data portability? 14:10 - How do you think changes in data privacy law will impact Crosshatch? 16:42 - What is the death of the cookie and fingerprinting? 20:00 - Where is the shift in data privacy coming from? 22:55 - What is the business outlo...
Mar 20, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 105
If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Intro to Enginears. 01:15 - Who is Ben and who are Plumery? What are they building? 04:46 - What does developer experience mean to Plumery and why? 06:10 - What impact does good developer experience have on engineering and product teams? 09:35 - What are your thoughts around measuring productivity and metrics? 11:09 - What are DORA metrics? Metrics or any other metrics that you use? 12:33 - How can a company be intentional with ...
Mar 13, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 104
00:00 – Intro to Enginears. 01:24 – Intro to Ihor. 02:14 – Intro to Vadym. 03:06 – Is there a crossover between divisions? 04:12 – Background to Preply. 06:02 – What changes have you seen in consumer and user behaviour and how it has impacted Preply? 08:00 – How are you able to assess what features customers want? 09:44 – What technology changes have you made at Preply and why were they made? 12:12 – How has Platform Engineering evolved at Preply? 17:00 – How will you improve the platform in the...
Feb 28, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 103
00:00 - Intro. 01:33 - Who is Maxime and what have your roles been at Criteo? 05:19 - What does Criteo do and what makes its platform compelling? 07:01 - Why do you think data is so important to Criteo? 08:28 - How much data are you ingesting and what are the challenges around processing it? 10:33 - How is ML and AI related to the data Criteo is ingesting from customers? 16:18 - What are the challenges you face and considerations you take when building a scalable data platform? 21:31 - What are ...
Jan 31, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 102
00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:52 - Who is Matija? 03:20 - What has been you biggest challenge when shifting from an embedded engineer to a product engineer 05:23 - How did that transition occur? 07:13 - Who are Workera? 10:00 - What data are you capturing and how are you capturing it? 13:40 - How have Large Language Models (LLM’S) used in the platform? 14:19 - How Have LLM’S impacted the business and how were they introduced into the business? 18:09 - How are LLM’S used at Workera? 24:40 - How are...
Jan 24, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 101
00:00 - Enginears Intro. 00:44 - Intro to Daan and his career. 03:10 - Why and how did you (Daan) transition from music to Software Engineering? 05:34 - Who are Source.ag and what do they do? 07:57 - How do Source.ag use AI within the business and what does it do? 10:37 - What challenges do you face as VP of Engineering when managing your team? 18:09 - From a technical perspective, how has your AI impacted greenhouse growers? 19:40 - What are the short and long-term algorithms? 21:38 - What data...
Jan 17, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 100
00:00 – Enginears Intro. 01:15 – Insight into role at ventures and how are you impacting the core products of the business. 06:31 – What makes Klaviyo so compelling? 11:15 – Is Klaviyo most powerful within a particular sector or customer type? 16:09 – What was Klaviyo like as a business when you joined 5 years ago? 32:25 – Do you feel now in terms of hiring and growing teams you are able to be more specific in your areas of expertise? 34:28 – Has growth made it easier for staff to pivot in to di...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 99
00:00 – Enginears Intro. 03:15 – What is it like to become a CTO? 05:35 – What does a CTO do? 08:30 – Intro into Distrokid. 12:45 – What tech have you inherited & what do you see the mindset of engineers being like today? 20:20 – How have you changed how developers & teams worked? 27:00 – People growth & challenges you have seen as a CTO. 30:00 – What’s been the best answer you have seen to that question (in response to Kevin talking about people growth)? 34:00 – What falls under tha...
Dec 20, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 98
00:00 – Enginears Intro. 01:10 – Intro into Birdie & what has changed over the last 5 years engineering wise. 04:20 – What are some of the prominent changes you have seen, even just business wise? 06:30 – Mobile journey & how far the business has come. 08:40 – Talk about the changes over the years, why they made sense back then and not now. 12:50 – Explain the conscious decision to double down on react native efforts & why. 16:35 – How have you experienced the separation of ownership...
Dec 13, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 97
00:55 – Intro to Jitendra 01:40 – How have you seen travel evolve over the last couple of years through your eyes? 03:05 – Intro on Hopper 04:30 – You’ve almost built the baseline of those FinTech products and then re-sell them; what’s that experience been like? 05:35 – Talk to us about these fleet of FinTech products, how they make up Hopper and why they are so important to Hopper? 07:00 – Business challenges and the software engineering/technical challenges 09:05 – Payments scale and what that...
Dec 07, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 96
01:40 – Who is João and intro to Adevinta. 05:00 – Investing in the journey of platform engineering; where this came from? What’s that journey been like? What have you learnt? 08:00 – What has Joao learnt over the last 3 years and the impact. 13:30 – What does the technical complexity mean day to day? 16:00 – What the platform means to Ebay and some of the shortcomings of that? 22:20 – If you were to replicate this in another business, what would you do differently and why? 22:55 – How Adevinta’...
Dec 01, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 95
01:00 – Intro into Ashley and elevator pitch for ev.energy 03:00 – What are some challenges you see around the software and hardware intersection? 08:30 – Data ingestion of the platform; the collection & cleanliness of data across millions of EV’s that ev.energy are sourcing info from and how they do that. 15:00 – How and what are ev.energy using the data for to inform manufacturers, customers? 21:00 – Challenges of building good software across multiple devices, across multiple countries. 2...
Nov 23, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 92
01:35 – Intro to David 03:56 – Marshmallow’s mission & product offering 07:40 – Engineering solutions to engineering problems 09:30 – Breaking down engineering sub-sections 16:00 – Understand backend challenges & how you offer a really good customer experience (how you build it) 18:30 – Explain the systems evolution over the last couple of years 21:15 – Company growth & people evolution 24:40 – What have Marshmallow’s hiring challenges been around 30:10 – If I was to come and sit wit...
Nov 23, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 93
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Nov 23, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 94
- Who are KNIME? - What is Low-Code? - Common misconceptions about low-code and it’s capabilities - How KNIME’s low-code approach can deliver complex tasks across AI - How to get trained ML models into production, and out to customers Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Nov 23, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 91
- Intro to Chronosphere and Paige Cruz. - Tell us some typical engineering challenges Chronosphere has to tackle. - Understand DoorDash case study and how Chronosphere have helped them scale. - Evolution of Paige Cruz as a Senior Developer Advocate. - Where will Chronosphere be in the next 6-12 months? Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Nov 23, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 90
- Intro to Road.io and who is Michael - Mission of Road and the role of a VP of Engineering - Cultural approach to technology choices - How Road.io are assessing problems and then solving those challenges - When to event source, when not to event source? - Growth & Hiring at Road.io Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Oct 11, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 89
- The story of Tallarium and what they’re building - The Energy Trading market, and why Tallarium are tackling the challenge of modernizing tech across the industry - Challenges implementing Machine Learning & NLP technologies into their customers - Challenges of implementing new AI technologies into Financial Services, and how regulations play an important role Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted ...
Oct 04, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 88
- What is Developer Productivity? - Developer Productivity in Trainline and how you measure it? - What are two tips to Developer Productivity? - Metrics, Observability and Growth in Trainline Building a Career Framework in Engineering at Trainline - Goals - Salary Increases - Retention Growth of Trainline into new markets across Europe Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-...
Sep 27, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 87
- Wayve Introduction - Common challenges in Autonomous Driving - "End-To-End" self driving technology and what it means - LiDAR Sensors versus Computer Vision in Self Driving and the pro's and con's - The introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Self Driving Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Sep 20, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 86
- Learning from challenges in building a start-up previously and life as a technical co-founder. - We discuss the reputation of buy now pay later. - The market opportunity for Sprinque and businesses using the BNPL model. - The technical challenges to come: - Scale - Data and ML models Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Sep 06, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 85
- Sennder, and SennAI introduction - 0 The power of AI in SennAI and the implementation of Marketplace pricing and load recommendation - Critical challenges including Bayesian approaches and the emergence of MLOps - The importance of Technical Product Owners and how they drive value in a multi-disciplined team - Hiring and retaining exceptional talent Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See a...
Aug 30, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Our first release of Nick Peddy, CTO of CLEARME and ex-Uber, JP Morgan and Capital One where he talks to us about his rise to the role of a CTO and his passion for leadership. CLEAR have been on a really interesting journey since COVID and their razor focus vision on being customer-centric has guided them through a tough situation where largely their business was in the aviation space. A pivot towards multi-industries and continuing to build a world-class, well-trusted biometric authentication s...
Aug 23, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 83
- Overview of XXII - Computer Vision applications and industries served - Floating Sales licenses and the importance of flexibility for the customer - Synthetic data versus real world data in AI. The pro's and con's. - Recent funding and international growth plans for the future Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information....
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 82
Typeform who are extremely well known for their focus on User Experience, Customer Experience and allowing customers to survey their favourite brands, Typeform have gone on a journey to introduce Generative AI into their product suite and expand their offering to customers, delighting them along the way. This episode also talks about building a business remote and scaling an engineering culture. Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited b...
Aug 02, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 81
