Enginears

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:10 - Matteo Intro.

02:55 - Semrush Intro.

06:40 - Mindset of Semrush & role of Matteo.

11:05 - What are some of the engineering challenges Semrush (building payments system)?

16:00 - Why business logic is so important.
17:50 - Difference in technology usage between Adyen vs Mollie vs Semrush?
25:24 - How you build FinOps culture within the business?

30:55 - Pros and cons of using new technologies vs Adyen's mindset?

36:44 - What should people be weary of within payments?

41:30 - Top 3 characteristics a software engineer needs to be able to thrive?

46:25 - What engineers Semrush are looking to hire?

49:10 - Having no Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

51:18 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

00:31 - Who are monday and what is their mission?

02:35 - Who is Chen and how did he join monday?

04:22 - What is monday’s developer platform?

06:55 - Where do the problems that monday solve, begin?

07:56 - What is MondayDB?

13:08 - What is the tech stack at monday and why has it been chosen?

16:49 - What challenges do you face with MondayDB?

21:38 - What is the engineering culture at monday like?

26:19 - What are the plans for 2024 and beyond?

30:17 - What is your interview process, what mindset are you looking for in engineers and what has growth been like?

35:45 - What are the top 3 engineering characteristics that you need in today’s market?

40:58 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:30 - Rok Intro.

03:30 - The evolution of TomTom.

05:26 - What is map visualisation?

07:07 - Thinking behind why it is Open Source (industry driven)?

08:49 - What is the plan with the Open Sourcing mapping data?

10:26 - What do the teams on map visualisation do?

13:33 - The key critical engineering challenges in the map visualisation unit?

15:33 - What is the process of taking the geospatial data to create map visuals?

18:03 - Comparing the size of data.

19:35 - How are TomTom process, cleaning and utilsing the data?

22:24 - What tools & technologies are used and why?

26:55 - Will C++ continue to be used?

28:30 - The introduction of Rust language.

30:05 - TomTom's organisation layout (team wise) and their day-to-day.

32:57 - Growth plans at TomTom.

34:42 - Use case of Booking.com utilising TomTom.

36:56 - Closing statements by Elliot.

38:35 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:05 - Rebecca Greene Intro.

03:04 - Regal.io Intro.

05:00 - How AI is incorporated into Regal.io?

07:30 - How Regal.io is cleansing and processing the mass amounts of data?

10:35 - Achieving +3.5M positive ROI's per month.

13:38 - The Vision of Regal.io.

16:23 - The engineering challenges amongst Regal.io.

19:58 - Why is it hard to monetise AI that sits on top of LLM's?

24:20 - What are Regal.io's growth plans?

26:40 - Top 3 characteristics that are important in a Software Engineer?

31:43 - Elliot closing statement.

32:50 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:05 - Intro to Fabio.

05:54 - Who are BlaBlaCar?

09:30 - How have BlaBlaCar grown geographically?

11:09 - How does the ML platform work at BlaBlaCar?

18:14 - When does the journey of collecting data start?

21:47 - Can you explain the concept of ABC and can you give a use case?

26:11 - Is the data you analyse segmented?

31:32 - Are there any situations where you communicate directly to customers to understand decision making?34:12 - What advice do you have for people running ML algorithms in production as well as dos and don’ts?

36:44 - What can we expect from BlaBlaCar in 2024?

39:20 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:29 - Intro into Jonathan and career dissection.

18:44 - What are 3 takeaways from your experience at Twitch?

26:09 - What is frugality and how can it be applied to engineering?

32:56 - Did you have an opportunity to work closely with Jeff Bezos and what was that like?

36:45 - What was it like to be involved in an acquisition of this magnitude?

41:48 - What does 'complex systems are made up by simple systems' actually mean?

50:14 - Who needs to introduce value engineering into an organisation and what does it look like?

53:41 - What does the journey of losing look like?

01:03:33 - What does Jonathan do now?

01:08:20 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:03 - Intro into Vojtech and the Czech Republic engineering boom.

02:40 - What sells Deepnote?

05:30 - What makes Deepnote’s product innovative?

10:35 - How does being customer centric and having an open communication channel work at Deepnote?

13:52 - What technologies are Deepnote using and why?

17:55 - What is it like running arbitrary code on the cloud?

19:55 - What systems and process do you have in place to protect the cloud?

23:10 - Was there a point where Deepnote realised that arbitrary code could be a threat to its platform?

25:38 - What does building an autonomous AI model look like?

29:09 - Has autonomous AI improved team morale at Deepnote?

32:21 - Are you using AI in your day-to-day life?

34:24 - What are Deepnote’s plans for the rest of 2024?

37:23 - Where are Deepnote hiring and what skills are they looking for?

40:32 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

02:26 - Who are RO?

07:33 - What is digital accessibility?

08:43 - What is the process that a company or individual can take to make digital accessibility more accessible?

11:24 - Has the idea of accessibility changed the way you think about engineering?

13:25 - Are these new concepts?

14:39 - Do you think AI will change the game in terms of accessibility?

17:14 - What are 3 things you would encourage new leaders to do in order to integrate accessibility within your team?

19:34 - What have you built at RO?

21:18 - What are the top 3 characteristics a software engineer needs to be successful In the current market?

27:38 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:35 - Who is Nick?

06:30 - Who are Freestar and what do they do?

12:07 - What product and engineering challenges do you face and what does a day at Freestar look like?

18:07 - What automation features are used at Freestar?

20:36 - What technologies and tools do you use at Freestar and why?

23:58 - What are the challenges and powers of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)?

29:32 - As a leader how do you acknowledge and resolve conflict?

32:59 - Where is Freestar going next year as well as AdTech in general?

38:46 - What are the top 3 characteristics a software engineer needs to be successful?

46:55 - Enginears Outro.

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00:00 - Enginears Intro.

01:25 - Who is Tyler and what is his background?

06:35 - What do Catawiki do?

12:45 - How tough is objective 1 to reach for a CTO?

15:49 - What changes has Tyler brought to Catawiki and what impact has it had on the teams?

28:53 - How does team communication work at Catawiki?

31:42 - Does your approach change within different guilds or teams?

34:48 - What are the differences in team structures between European and US Engineering?

38:37 - Have you noticed any differences between how companies in the US are built compared to Europe?

42:37 - Do you notice any differences in foundational software engineering between Europe and USA?

44:10 - What are Catawiki’s plans for this year?

48:19 - Enginears Outro.

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