If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 02:26 - Who are RO? 07:33 - What is digital accessibility? 08:43 - What is the process that a company or individual can take to make digital accessibility more accessible? 11:24 - Has the idea of accessibility changed the way you think about engineering? 13:25 - Are these new concepts? 14:39 - Do you think AI will change the game in terms of accessibility? 17:14 - What are 3 things you would encourage new leader...
May 08, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 112
If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! 00:00 - Enginears Intro. 01:35 - Who is Nick? 06:30 - Who are Freestar and what do they do? 12:07 - What product and engineering challenges do you face and what does a day at Freestar look like? 18:07 - What automation features are used at Freestar? 20:36 - What technologies and tools do you use at Freestar and why? 23:58 - What are the challenges and powers of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)? 29:32 - As a leader how do you acknowled...
May 01, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 111
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
