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.
191 episodes
Season 1


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 service? Containerisation using Docker / KubernetesPrefer 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.
26min | Published on August 31, 2022


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 changes in the crypto exchange space.- The need to re-design the platform to allow for scalability.- Chrone Architectures and introduction of Kubernetes- Making the right people and technology choices- How Banks and Blockchain can learn from one anotherPrefer 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.
33min | Published on August 31, 2022


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- RustPrefer 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.
28min | Published on August 31, 2022


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 SubscriptionsWhat 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 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.
32min | Published on August 31, 2022


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 AUnderstanding 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 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.
37min | Published on July 6, 2022


- 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 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 June 15, 2022


- 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 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.
41min | Published on June 13, 2022


- 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/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.
40min | Published on May 19, 2022


Engineering landscape and the engineering culture TravelPerk are fostering- Industry engineering hiring trends- Understanding TravelPerk's talent acquisition mindset- How are you working on retention and growth of people?- How do you invest in engineering?- The route to VP of Engineering.- Challenges, failures / learnings.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.
48min | Published on May 6, 2022


Stream are the #1 chat API for custom messaging apps and started off building activity feeds and slowly started introducing chat messaging API’s which feeds large-volumes of their traffic. Jeroen and Alexei took us on a journey to understand some of the challenges around latency, scalability and mobile performance.A great discussion which feeds into end-to-end challenges of the platform and why they are critical to one another, especially in an API first product.- We discuss vertical v horizontal scaling through different API/chat activities.- Building 3 SDK’s for mobile and importance of CX.Jeroen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leenarts/Alexei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexei-kozlenok-8072b21/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.
40min | Published on May 6, 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.
191 episodes
Season 1


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 service? Containerisation using Docker / KubernetesPrefer 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.
26min | Published on August 31, 2022


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 changes in the crypto exchange space.- The need to re-design the platform to allow for scalability.- Chrone Architectures and introduction of Kubernetes- Making the right people and technology choices- How Banks and Blockchain can learn from one anotherPrefer 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.
33min | Published on August 31, 2022


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- RustPrefer 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.
28min | Published on August 31, 2022


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 SubscriptionsWhat 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 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.
32min | Published on August 31, 2022


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 AUnderstanding 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 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.
37min | Published on July 6, 2022


- 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 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 June 15, 2022


- 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 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.
41min | Published on June 13, 2022


- 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/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.
40min | Published on May 19, 2022


Engineering landscape and the engineering culture TravelPerk are fostering- Industry engineering hiring trends- Understanding TravelPerk's talent acquisition mindset- How are you working on retention and growth of people?- How do you invest in engineering?- The route to VP of Engineering.- Challenges, failures / learnings.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.
48min | Published on May 6, 2022


Stream are the #1 chat API for custom messaging apps and started off building activity feeds and slowly started introducing chat messaging API’s which feeds large-volumes of their traffic. Jeroen and Alexei took us on a journey to understand some of the challenges around latency, scalability and mobile performance.A great discussion which feeds into end-to-end challenges of the platform and why they are critical to one another, especially in an API first product.- We discuss vertical v horizontal scaling through different API/chat activities.- Building 3 SDK’s for mobile and importance of CX.Jeroen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leenarts/Alexei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexei-kozlenok-8072b21/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.
40min | Published on May 6, 2022