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 engineer05:23 - 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 LLM’S different to traditional software and algorithms that you have built previously?28:09 - What do you think are the top three skills does an engineer need to thrive in this landscape?31:41 - How has AI impacted the ability to scale at Workera?35:37 - What is the shapeup methdology, how is it used at Workera and how does it compare to scrum?41:58 - In terms of talent what are you looking to introduce in to the business in the next 12 months?43:22 - Outro.Prefer to watch your podcasts?Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioOther Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited (https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCEdited) by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 (http://Source.ag) and what do they do?07:57 - How do Source.ag (http://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 are you collecting from the sensors and the greenhouses?24:48 - From a technological perspective, how are you collecting this data?27:05 - What does growth and hiring look like for the next 12 months?31:26 - Outro.Prefer to watch your podcasts?Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioOther Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited (https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCEdited) by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 different areas and how has it impacted culture?38:49 – What are your biggest challenges you’ve faced both as the business has grown and technically?46:48 – What challenges have you faced around internationalisation and the localisation of your platform and what does that mean to you?56:58 – London growth, hiring and skills?59:27 – What backgrounds and focus areas do you look for?1:02:52 – Outro.Prefer to watch your podcasts?Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioOther Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited (https://www.youtube.com/@Enginearsio%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCEdited) by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 that data umbrella and why?39:15 – Roles/engineers that Distrokid are looking for!Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 and what have you learnt during this period?22:06 – Testing your assumptions against performance solutions against performance monitoring and tooling.29:30 – What was the period of time of understanding what the challenges were?33:00 – Introduction to observability(ness).36:00 – What the rest of this year looks like - what does H2 look like for the business and/or in the tech?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

00:55 – Intro to Jitendra01:40 – How have you seen travel evolve over the last couple of years through your eyes?03:05 – Intro on Hopper04:30 – 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 challenges09:05 – Payments scale and what that looks like for the business; and internationally as well15:00 – How do you get down to that customer level and understand what customers in different countries/regions want?22:30 – What are some of the technical challenges that come with payments?29:05 – The availability of Hopper; how are you solving that problem and what challenges do you run into?35:50 – The next 12 months for HopperPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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’s going to transform?29:40 – What aren’t companies investing in; building internal platforms, or thinking about platform engineering?33:30 – Growth plans for Adevinta.Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

01:35 – Intro to David03:56 – Marshmallow’s mission & product offering07:40 – Engineering solutions to engineering problems09:30 – Breaking down engineering sub-sections16:00 – 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 years21:15 – Company growth & people evolution24:40 – What have Marshmallow’s hiring challenges been around30:10 – If I was to come and sit with Marshmallow’s technology team, what engineering challenges would I hear being spoken about?33:20 – Growth of Marshmallow, technology team & hiring over the next 6-12 months36:00 – Microservices situation & how that is evolvingPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

- 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.