Enginears

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.

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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!

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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?

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00:55 – Intro to Jitendra
01:40 – How have you seen travel evolve over the last couple of years through your eyes?
03:05 – Intro on Hopper
04:30 – 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 challenges
09:05 – Payments scale and what that looks like for the business; and internationally as well
15:00 – 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 Hopper

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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.

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01:35 – Intro to David
03:56 – Marshmallow’s mission & product offering
07:40 – Engineering solutions to engineering problems
09:30 – Breaking down engineering sub-sections
16:00 – 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 years
21:15 – Company growth & people evolution
24:40 – What have Marshmallow’s hiring challenges been around
30:10 – 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 months
36:00 – Microservices situation & how that is evolving

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01:00 – Intro into Ashley and elevator pitch for ev.energy
03:00 – 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?

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- 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 customers

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- 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?

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