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00:00:00 - Start

00:01:01 - Dmytro's background

00:13:50 - Early days of finance team in Wise

00:19:36 - Becoming lead in the finance team

00:21:19 - Squad o fteams, tribe of squads: splitting finance into subdomains

00:27:42 - Conway law: team splits reflecting architecture

00:32:56 - Event-driven architecture

00:34:51 - Context on what finance team is doing

00:36:06 - Batch approach vs real-time financials

00:39:56 - Error handling, dead letter queues

00:41:44 - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, in-house tools

00:49:32 - Assembling the right team: finding people who care

00:52:42 - DB Skills. Postgres. Modularization. Couplings

00:57:24 - Staff+ engineering path

01:03:32 - Engineering principles in finance. Compliance, auditing

01:09:22 - Learning domain where you work

01:11:31 - Testing in finance

01:27:00 - Growing in your career: find your path, learn what interests you

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