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


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 providers?17:15 - Do teams change depending on the task at hand? 18:15 - What is the long-term plan for Thoughtful?23:39 - What Is Thoughtful's biggest technology challenge currently?25:50 - What does growth look like Thoughtful in 2024?26:40 - Where can people go to learn more?27:18 - What skills are Thoughtful looking for in their engineers?28:26 - Outro.https://www.thoughtful.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesal/Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
30min | Published on March 27, 2024


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 outlook in 2024 for Crosshatch?24:51 - What are your hiring plans?Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
27min | Published on March 20, 2024


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 their metrics?13:55 - Explain managers vs makers?16:30 - What are your previous learnings about developer experience at your past companies?21:48 - What do you think are the biggest digital challenges both today and tomorrow for banks?26:41 - What do you think makes a good developer experience?27:56 - What can people expect from Plumery in 2024?30:10 - Where are you going to build out the business and who are the people that you need?Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
32min | Published on March 13, 2024


00:00 β Intro to Enginears.01:24 β Intro to Ihor.02:14 β Intro to Vadym.03:06 β Is there a crossover between divisions?04:12 β Background to Preply.06:02 β What changes have you seen in consumer and user behaviour and how it has impacted Preply?08:00 β How are you able to assess what features customers want?09:44 β What technology changes have you made at Preply and why were they made?12:12 β How has Platform Engineering evolved at Preply?17:00 β How will you improve the platform in the next 12 months?20:37 β What is experimentation culture and how is it implemented at Preply?25:45 β What is the secret to getting A-B testing correct?29:00 β How have you improved the Preply product with data?35:35 β What can we expect from Preply over the next 12 months?38:33 β What are the top 3 characteristics needed to succeed in the current ecosystem?42:04 β Who are Preply looking to hire into their teams?43:48 β Outro.If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Preply's Barcelona SRE Meetup on March the 21st: https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/barcelona-sre-community/events/299312772Preply's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Preplyengineering-ie3bbPreply is hiring! Check out the open roles in London and Barcelona: https://preply.com/en/careers Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
45min | Published on February 28, 2024


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 the trade-offs when you build on-premise compared to cloud?24:00 - What does platform engineering look like on-premise?27:04 - How have you organised your platform teams and what are the key disciplines within them?29:23 - What do you think are the three characteristics that you need to have as an engineer to thrive?33:51 - 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.
39min | Published on January 31, 2024


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 (LLMβS) used in the platform?14:19 - How Have LLMβS impacted the business and how were they introduced into the business?18:09 - How are LLMβS used at Workera?24:40 - How are LLMβS 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.
45min | Published on January 24, 2024


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.
32min | Published on January 17, 2024


00:00 β Enginears Intro.01:15 β Insight into role at ventures and how are you impacting the core products of the business.06:31 β What makes Klaviyo so compelling?11:15 β Is Klaviyo most powerful within a particular sector or customer type?16:09 β What was Klaviyo like as a business when you joined 5 years ago?32:25 β 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 β Has growth made it easier for staff to pivot in to different areas andΒ how has it impacted culture?38:49 β What are your biggest challenges youβve faced both as the business has grown and technically?46:48 β What challenges have you faced around internationalisation andΒ the localisation of your platform and what does that mean to you?56:58 β London growth, hiring and skills?59:27 β What backgrounds and focus areas do you look for?1:02:52 β 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.
1h04 | Published on January 10, 2024


00:00 β Enginears Intro.03:15 β What is it like to become a CTO?05:35 β What does a CTO do?08:30 β Intro into Distrokid.12:45 β What tech have you inherited & what do you see the mindset of engineers being like today?20:20 β How have you changed how developers & teams worked?27:00 β People growth & challenges you have seen as a CTO.30:00 β Whatβs been the best answer you have seen to that question (in response to Kevin talking about people growth)?34:00 β What falls under that data umbrella and why?39:15 β 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.
43min | Published on December 20, 2023


00:00 β Enginears Intro.01:10 β Intro into Birdie & what has changed over the last 5 years engineering wise.04:20 β What are some of the prominent changes you have seen, even just business wise?06:30 β Mobile journey & how far the business has come.08:40 β Talk about the changes over the years, why they made sense back then and not now.12:50 β Explain the conscious decision to double down on react native efforts & why.16:35 β How have you experienced the separation of ownership and what have you learnt during this period?22:06 β Testing your assumptions against performance solutions against performance monitoring and tooling.29:30 β What was the period of time of understanding what the challenges were?33:00 β Introduction to observability(ness).36:00 β 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.
43min | Published on December 13, 2023
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


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 providers?17:15 - Do teams change depending on the task at hand? 18:15 - What is the long-term plan for Thoughtful?23:39 - What Is Thoughtful's biggest technology challenge currently?25:50 - What does growth look like Thoughtful in 2024?26:40 - Where can people go to learn more?27:18 - What skills are Thoughtful looking for in their engineers?28:26 - Outro.https://www.thoughtful.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesal/Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
30min | Published on March 27, 2024


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 outlook in 2024 for Crosshatch?24:51 - What are your hiring plans?Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
27min | Published on March 20, 2024


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 their metrics?13:55 - Explain managers vs makers?16:30 - What are your previous learnings about developer experience at your past companies?21:48 - What do you think are the biggest digital challenges both today and tomorrow for banks?26:41 - What do you think makes a good developer experience?27:56 - What can people expect from Plumery in 2024?30:10 - Where are you going to build out the business and who are the people that you need?Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
32min | Published on March 13, 2024


00:00 β Intro to Enginears.01:24 β Intro to Ihor.02:14 β Intro to Vadym.03:06 β Is there a crossover between divisions?04:12 β Background to Preply.06:02 β What changes have you seen in consumer and user behaviour and how it has impacted Preply?08:00 β How are you able to assess what features customers want?09:44 β What technology changes have you made at Preply and why were they made?12:12 β How has Platform Engineering evolved at Preply?17:00 β How will you improve the platform in the next 12 months?20:37 β What is experimentation culture and how is it implemented at Preply?25:45 β What is the secret to getting A-B testing correct?29:00 β How have you improved the Preply product with data?35:35 β What can we expect from Preply over the next 12 months?38:33 β What are the top 3 characteristics needed to succeed in the current ecosystem?42:04 β Who are Preply looking to hire into their teams?43:48 β Outro.If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Preply's Barcelona SRE Meetup on March the 21st: https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/barcelona-sre-community/events/299312772Preply's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Preplyengineering-ie3bbPreply is hiring! Check out the open roles in London and Barcelona: https://preply.com/en/careers Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk (http://hunterdigital.co.uk) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
45min | Published on February 28, 2024


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 the trade-offs when you build on-premise compared to cloud?24:00 - What does platform engineering look like on-premise?27:04 - How have you organised your platform teams and what are the key disciplines within them?29:23 - What do you think are the three characteristics that you need to have as an engineer to thrive?33:51 - 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.
39min | Published on January 31, 2024


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 (LLMβS) used in the platform?14:19 - How Have LLMβS impacted the business and how were they introduced into the business?18:09 - How are LLMβS used at Workera?24:40 - How are LLMβS 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.
45min | Published on January 24, 2024


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.
32min | Published on January 17, 2024


00:00 β Enginears Intro.01:15 β Insight into role at ventures and how are you impacting the core products of the business.06:31 β What makes Klaviyo so compelling?11:15 β Is Klaviyo most powerful within a particular sector or customer type?16:09 β What was Klaviyo like as a business when you joined 5 years ago?32:25 β 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 β Has growth made it easier for staff to pivot in to different areas andΒ how has it impacted culture?38:49 β What are your biggest challenges youβve faced both as the business has grown and technically?46:48 β What challenges have you faced around internationalisation andΒ the localisation of your platform and what does that mean to you?56:58 β London growth, hiring and skills?59:27 β What backgrounds and focus areas do you look for?1:02:52 β 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.
1h04 | Published on January 10, 2024


00:00 β Enginears Intro.03:15 β What is it like to become a CTO?05:35 β What does a CTO do?08:30 β Intro into Distrokid.12:45 β What tech have you inherited & what do you see the mindset of engineers being like today?20:20 β How have you changed how developers & teams worked?27:00 β People growth & challenges you have seen as a CTO.30:00 β Whatβs been the best answer you have seen to that question (in response to Kevin talking about people growth)?34:00 β What falls under that data umbrella and why?39:15 β 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.
43min | Published on December 20, 2023


00:00 β Enginears Intro.01:10 β Intro into Birdie & what has changed over the last 5 years engineering wise.04:20 β What are some of the prominent changes you have seen, even just business wise?06:30 β Mobile journey & how far the business has come.08:40 β Talk about the changes over the years, why they made sense back then and not now.12:50 β Explain the conscious decision to double down on react native efforts & why.16:35 β How have you experienced the separation of ownership and what have you learnt during this period?22:06 β Testing your assumptions against performance solutions against performance monitoring and tooling.29:30 β What was the period of time of understanding what the challenges were?33:00 β Introduction to observability(ness).36:00 β 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.
43min | Published on December 13, 2023