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 - How Attune index on developer productivity?24:25 - How hiring & company culture alters productivity.25:50 - Attune's value of 'Failure is Tuition'.26:38 - What is Attune's backdrop story and relationship with Coalition?32:04 - What is Attune's plan for 2024?34:06 - What does Azeem think are the top 3 characteristics a software engineer requires in this current climate to thrive?37:45 - Learning and developing communication skills through different mediums.39:01 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 - What challenges have Kraken faced during migration and scaling?19:32 - What was the reason for building the operating model?20:32 - What does scaling mean for Kraken?24:11 - What are Kraken’s plans for 2024?25:12 - What skillsets and characteristics are hired in to the team at Kraken and why?28:35 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 role when entering a new business?15:31 - How does upskilling your engineers through a CPTO positively impact users and customers?18:27 - Why aren’t organisations adopting organisational change by introducing a CPTO?21:41 - Where does product sit within an organisation?23:01 - What are some golden nuggets for people to achieve a C-Level role?25:12 - How did Dimitra learn financial modelling?31:29 - Outro.For anyone that wishes to contact Dimitra or learn more about Dimitra:http://www.dimitraretsina.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/retsinaBook on basic finance: "Financial intelligence: A Manager's guide to Knowing what the Numbers Really Mean"Sales Methodology to achieve organisation alignment and partnership & guide Product efforts contributing to customer journey: https://winningbydesign.com/Decision Trees/Impact Maps/Opportunity-Solution Trees:Teresa Torres Advocator - https://www.producttalk.org/2023/12/opportunity-solution-trees/Product Trio for Decision to Build = Engineering + Product + Design Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 next 12 months?20:37 – What is experimentation culture and how is it implemented at Preply?25:45 – What is the secret to getting A-B testing correct?29:00 – How have you improved the Preply product with data?35:35 – What can we expect from Preply over the next 12 months?38:33 – What are the top 3 characteristics needed to succeed in the current ecosystem?42:04 – Who are Preply looking to hire into their teams?43:48 – 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.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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 by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by 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 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 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 by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by 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 by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by 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.ukHosted by 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.ukHosted by 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.ukHosted by 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.ukHosted by 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.ukHosted by 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.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

01:00 – Intro into Ashley and elevator pitch for ev.energy03:00 – 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.27:20 – What kind of discussions are going on around a new integration?30:45 – The expansion of ev.energy and what can people expect?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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