Decoding Careers

Gita Charan is a highly experienced technologist, with a diverse career. Born in Fiji and educated in New Zealand, her career has taken her across the south Pacific and various roles in the technology industry. Gita’s recognised as a skilled leader and she believes in providing the right support to enable people to grow and reach their full potential.

The combination of technical skills, attitude, and team work, she says will get you a long way in a career in tech. The most important quality when she looks to hire for her own team are those soft skills. Gita discusses what you need to do now to prepare for a role as a leader – it’s what you do before you become a leader that’s important. Observe your own leaders – what is it about their leadership you like and don’t like?

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Ricky McAlister is a technology leader with a passion for crafting robust technical solutions and building high performing, collaborative teams. He is fascinated by both the technical aspect of software engineering and the psychology of leading and managing people.
 
Currently, Ricky is the Head of Engineering at Shift. The company looks to him and his engineering teams to deliver value to customers by ensuring finance on demand. This is made possible through a focus on strong in-house development partnering with best of breed tech providers.

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Robert Love is currently the CTO of Q-CTRL, Australia's first venture-capital-backed quantum technology startup, and is responsible for leading Q-CTRL's Engineering teams, and delivering value to customers by ensuring scientific R&D translates to product development.
 
Having recently celebrated its fifth birthday, Q-CTRL is focused on accelerating the pathway to quantum advantage by delivering intelligent infrastructure software to correct errors, autonomously stabilize hardware, and build the next trillion-dollar greenfield industry.

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Simon Litchfield is a highly accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in the software engineering industry. With a successful career that spans over two decades, he has worked with a wide range of companies, from start-ups to large corporations. 

Simon discusses with host Sam Yates his career progression and how he’s currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer at Nano, previously their founding CTO. Nano began at the beginning of the pandemic, and built the world’s first 10-minute mortgage, and in a short space of time, lent over half a billion dollars. They’re no longer lending but are now focused solely on providing the technology platform to existing banks. 

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Decoding Careers is a new podcast to help software engineers transition into a leadership role. Hosted by Sam Yates, you’ll hear directly from engineering leaders who have themselves successfully transitioned to their current roles, you’ll discover what they did and the challenges they faced to get there. 

Decoding Careers is proudly brought to you by Discovered People, a recruitment agency matching ambitious companies with software engineers.  

You can listen to Decoding Careers on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.

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