- 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
- Understanding how Box are approaching security and the technologies/approaches they are using - The risks of poor security and AI - Acquiring a technology company and ensuring a successful merge - Creating an Engineering culture in a new location - Moving infrastructure to GCP 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....
Jul 26, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Summary: - Data sharing & monetisation for banks - Helping FinTechs & Merchants to scale their products - The opportunity in MENA - The race to Open Banking between MENA countries - Challenges with Cloud providers in MENA - TG’s multi-cloud model 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....
Jun 28, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 79
- The pragmatism behind choosing the right stack as a CTO for technical decisions and hiring decisions. - The evolution of a B2B platform into a B2B2C platform and the journey of evolving. - Complexities of managing networks across live-sports and streaming - Engineering values around multi-deployments daily, fearless of getting code into production and learning from failures, in-office collaboration. - Building a sense of ownership and autonomy with a nimble workforce. Prefer to watch your podc...
Jun 28, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 78
- Understanding Canonical’s background and their journey through the open-source world. - Harnessing the power of Juju and how powerful it can be for engineers. - Understanding and mitigating challenges across integrating multiple clouds. - What is Juju? - Applying Juju to Kubernetes. - Speed to production with Juju. - The challenges of UX. Canonical links: https://canonical.com/careers https://juju.is https://charmhub.io Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtub...
Jun 22, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 77
An enthralling conversation about the phenomenal growth of SumUp and how they have built the business to 3,400. - Mitosis and Merging of Tribes – when to do it and why? - How does Technology work in such an organisation? (tribe level vs global level) - Fleet as central infrastructure - Operational excellence does not stop at tribe borders. - Incident Management - Challenges that Tribe Structures bring - Product Innovation that comes with innovation on the ground at autonomous team level Prefer t...
Jun 07, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 76
A really interesting deep dive into Pega evolving over 40 years into building a low-code decisioning platform for customers. Scaling up to 1,000 customers and building a resilient and scalable service is critical to Pega’s success. 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....
May 10, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 75
BetterUp have fostered an incredible culture of being mission-driven and improving lives, careers and performance with enhanced technology. We discover the challenges of growing a product multi-regionally and scaling up whilst maintaining core business and engineering values. 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....
Apr 12, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 74
We discussed the journey from two founders, finding a need for cross-border / currency payments and how they built a full-blown business that has 16 million customers. - Building cloud native applications and disrupting financial services regulation. - The journey from on-premise to cloud at Wise and challenges that date back to the 1980’s! - Navigating challenges of card issuing in a cloud native environment – encryption, cryptography etc. - Product - Engineering interviews Prefer to watch your...
Mar 29, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Who are Lepaya and what’s their global mission? - Solving Complex B2B integrations and the scale/localisation/personalisation impact! - The use of AI and ChatGPT to self-learn. - As a scale-up – the power of EVP is so important and here’s why! 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....
Mar 22, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 72
A follow on from our podcast with Picnic in 2020 discussing robotizing a warehouse and how they have scaled up to 100k orders and 1M items to choose from since their release of their automated warehouse in 2022. - How Picnic have modernised their tech stack - the trade-offs with updating technology vs. sticking with what you’ve got? - Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/ - It aims to improve code quality, focussing on maintainability, consistency and avoidanc...
Mar 15, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 71
- Ledger’s journey since 2014 securing crypto. - Introducing Ledger Nano in 2016 - “Not your keys, not your coins” and self-custody - Security and Engineering challenges in Web3 - Hiring across many product and services domains Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio Edited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by A...
Dec 14, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 70
- Kicking off with the intro into methods of taking software into production previously. - What is Platform Engineering and Developer Tooling? - Help us run through the evolution of CI/CD and Monzo’s adoption - Automated testing - Automated detection/tooling. 200+ engineers in Monzo constantly releasing software every single day – a very important part of the Banking ecosystem. - Run us through the change approval board and how it’s automated; - Objective vs Subjective - Choice of programming la...
Dec 14, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Introduction into Developer Advocate role Understanding Elastic’s product line - Enterprise Search - Observability - Security Journey of Elastic into an Enterprise product - Elasticsearch / practical examples - Full-text search - Querying - Tokenisers - Search as you type - Reverse querying (percolators) Observability - Request tracing - Track usage volume, and integrate anomaly detection to find patterns and trends - Log browsing and searching - Error stack traces - RUM browser and user behavio...
Nov 23, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Simon Perryman joins us as an Ex-Amazonian/Twitch head of Engineering. - Discussing the challenges of hiring in the US and what to look out for. - Hiring criteria for software engineers in Amazon / Twitch - Software Engineering culture in San Francisco - A seriously competitive counter-offer of up to $500k The company Simon's advising: https://makalive.notion.site/Join-the-team-5fe35aa33ca344e3985070d680585628 Simon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonperryman/ Simon's coaching site: ht...
Nov 16, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 67
- The journey of building Multiverse since 2016 with Elixir. - Why Elixir is so powerful and pragmatic. - WhatsApp scaling to billions of messages with 50 engineers using Elixir. - Moving from Elm to Liveview. Chris Gregori: Website & Blog: https://www.chriis.dev/ Newsletter: https://chrisgregori.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/codestirring Multiverse links: Website: https://www.multiverse.io Multiverse Jobs: https://www.multiverse.io/en-GB/careers Blog: https://blog.multiverse.io...
Sep 28, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 66
- Guiding us through some of Kroo’s features and how you’re enabling social banking? - Basic steps and key achievements to gaining a UK banking licence - What are the challenges for Neobanks / Digital banks in gaining a license? - What are the key technical challenges to gaining a banking license? - Can you talk us through your technical stack and why Clojure? Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr ...
Sep 20, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 65
“Shaping the future of travel” - Help us understand what that statement really means to Duffel and the mission? - Talk us through the bureaucracy, archaic travel systems and how Duffel creates technological value for its users? - “We’re really open about what we do” – Help us understand this? - We’ve started to rebuild the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry. Layer by layer, piece by piece“ - Help us understand some of Duffel’s engineering challenges? - Why Elixir and why does it w...
Sep 20, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Adyen are Europe’s largest FinTech processing millions of transactions daily for the worlds most recognisable brands; Uber, Spotify, McDonalds and others. Efe joined us from the POS & Dev Enablement team to share how Adyen are passionate about being pragmatic when it comes to Engineering. By building their own on-premise infrastructure with 12 data centres they’ve managed to stay 100% in control of their availability performance. Adyen Careers: https://careers.adyen.com/career-types/tech Eng...
Aug 31, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 63
LandTech are the UK’s fastest growing PropTech company, who help offer property developers insight through their products; LandInsight, LandEnhance and LandFund, we focused on Data Engineering challenges around configuring unstructured datasets, this included - - Modelling data - Scaling datasets and the importance of platform engineering within this - Ways to keep data formatting consistent Want to see more from LandTech? Check out their website: Land.Tech Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check u...
Aug 31, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Bitvavo have made a real name for themselves in the last 4 years since starting in Summer 2018 and now recognised in the top 5 crypto exchanges in Europe and an unbelievable achievement being bootstrapped and self-funded. They have seen rapid customer uptake down to everything from simplistic UI, KYC and slick authentication all the way through to build scalable architectures and reliable infrastructures. - The role of Guy, CTO at Bitvavo over the past 2 years and the next 2 years and the change...
Aug 31, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 60
VP of Engineering at Mambu, who are an API first, Cloud native Banking platform - their customers include; N26, Tide and New10 and today we’ll be talking about cloud interoperability. - The cloud technologies that Mambu are using and why is it important to use varied cloud services and not just one? AWS to multi cloud. - Challenges with using 3 cloud providers - Interoperability between the three and why this is so key to success - Achieving a single deployment pattern rather than one per cloud ...
Aug 31, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Understanding Lune’s API and tools make it very easy to integrate emissions calculation and offsetting into every customer experience. What does our API enable? A few examples: - What does being ‘API first’ mean? - API Lifecycle v Software engineering lifecycle - How does being an ‘API first company’ affect the engineering approach? - Correctness - Ts-result - Rust Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36c...
Aug 31, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Onto speak to us about their mission / problem domain? What Onto and Ben are learning about the EV world and especially a customer mindset to Subscriptions What problems are and aren’t you trying to solve? Understanding the Physical aspects + Software aspects to the business. Challenges of managing physical vehicles and managing that from a tech perspective – hardware/software integration. Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twit...
Aug 31, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Helping companies understand the value of real-time data. Where’s the lack of value now and how does that impact customers? What are the engineering challenges with “real-time data” and delivering that to customers? Series A funding coming in at $37M – from a CEO raising Series A Understanding what the process of a tech company raising cash looks like and what you plan to do with it? Why? Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitt...
Jul 06, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 57
- Lemonade hit 1 million customers faster than Netflix and Spotify. - Certified B-Corp delivering social impact - Automating a whole customer journey from sign-up / authentication through to speed and accuracy of quotes and pay-outs! - Why Data is so key to your business and how you can make better informed decisions - Lemonade’s Makers programme and introducing engineers into the business. Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twi...
Jun 15, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 56
- An intro in to Nate and the business - Shifting from a B2B focus into a B2C platform and also a soft launch in the USA. - We discussed four key components that make up Nate – Consumer, Automation, Partnership and Platform. - Migration to Kubernetes - Engineering Culture – Nate Company Values, fostering a culture free from judgement/hierarchical status to empower innovation, along with “Personal Growth Fridays” and how they spin off into real-world developing projects. Prefer to watch your podc...
Jun 13, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 55
- Challenges for building a multi-regional payment architecture. - Compliance and Regulatory challenges that come with cross-border payments. - Changes in customer / employee habits to accessing money. - Leveraging their tech stack and dealing with scale and resiliency. Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio...
May 19, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 54
We discuss Chris, Pete, and Stephen’s work at Monzo open-sourcing their incident software, and how they decide to move into starting their own company. - What is incident management? - Cost of an unclear incident process. - Building a new incident process. - What problems are the team trying to solve and why? - A fascinating description of the technology and people risks in your business and the insights Incident can give you. - The future of observability? Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check u...
May 06, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 52
