Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
186 episodes
Season 1


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 levelPrefer 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.
50min | Published on June 7, 2023


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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
42min | Published on May 10, 2023


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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
41min | Published on April 12, 2023


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 interviewsPrefer 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.
38min | Published on March 29, 2023


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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on March 22, 2023


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 avoidance of common pitfalls.- €600M investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and how this supercharges Picnic’s growth.- Building and launching a technology academy and integrating people into team’s with mentorship.- Our open tech roles: https://picnic.app/careers/teams/technology-and-engineering- Engineering blog: https://blog.picnic.nl/- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.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.
36min | Published on March 15, 2023


- 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 languages to help structure software and systems.- Tooling for micro-services Suhail LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhailpatel/Monzo blog: www.monzo.com/blogDev tooling: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/m... 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on December 14, 2022


- 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 domainsPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer 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.
42min | Published on December 14, 2022


Introduction into Developer Advocate roleUnderstanding Elastic’s product line - Enterprise Search - Observability - SecurityJourney 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 behaviour informationPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer 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.
35min | Published on November 23, 2022


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 $500kThe company Simon's advising:https://makalive.notion.site/Join-the-team-5fe35aa33ca344e3985070d680585628Simon's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonperryman/Simon's coaching site:https://www.sgpadvisors.one/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/36cTJYrPrefer 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.
43min | Published on November 16, 2022
Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
186 episodes
Season 1


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 levelPrefer 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.
50min | Published on June 7, 2023


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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
42min | Published on May 10, 2023


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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
41min | Published on April 12, 2023


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 interviewsPrefer 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.
38min | Published on March 29, 2023


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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on March 22, 2023


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 avoidance of common pitfalls.- €600M investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and how this supercharges Picnic’s growth.- Building and launching a technology academy and integrating people into team’s with mentorship.- Our open tech roles: https://picnic.app/careers/teams/technology-and-engineering- Engineering blog: https://blog.picnic.nl/- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.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.
36min | Published on March 15, 2023


- 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 languages to help structure software and systems.- Tooling for micro-services Suhail LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhailpatel/Monzo blog: www.monzo.com/blogDev tooling: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/m... 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/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on December 14, 2022


- 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 domainsPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer 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.
42min | Published on December 14, 2022


Introduction into Developer Advocate roleUnderstanding Elastic’s product line - Enterprise Search - Observability - SecurityJourney 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 behaviour informationPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer 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.
35min | Published on November 23, 2022


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 $500kThe company Simon's advising:https://makalive.notion.site/Join-the-team-5fe35aa33ca344e3985070d680585628Simon's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonperryman/Simon's coaching site:https://www.sgpadvisors.one/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/36cTJYrPrefer 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.
43min | Published on November 16, 2022