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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.

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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.

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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.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/retsina

Book 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

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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/

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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?

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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?

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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.

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Preply's Barcelona SRE Meetup on March the 21st: https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/barcelona-sre-community/events/299312772

Preply's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Preplyengineering-ie3bb

Preply is hiring! Check out the open roles in London and Barcelona: https://preply.com/en/careers

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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.

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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 engineer

05:23 - 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.

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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.

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