Haystack: Tech Uncovered

In the final episode of season 1 of the Haystack: Tech Uncovered podcast, co-founder Mike Davies talks to Chris Grice, Engineering Manager at PropTech company, Street Group. 

Street Group are on a mission to change the way people buy and sell property in the UK. Chris shares his journey into tech, and experience working in a corporate environment, to a scale-up and the challenges and anecdotes that come with that.

In the fifth episode of the Haystack Tech Uncovered podcast, presenter and founder Mike Davies chats with Sarat Pediredla. Sarat is an award-winning entrepreneur and software developer by trade who started hedgehog lab, a global digital product consultancy based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. 

Sarat shares his journey from wanting to be a surgeon, to software engineering to starting up his own business. hedgehog lab as a business has had the same cultural framework which has been the same for the past 14 years. 

Find out more and listen to Sarat's journey in the latest episode.

In the fourth Haystack, Tech Uncovered podcast, presenter and founder Mike Davies chats with Dylan McKee. Dylan is an award-winning tech entrepreneur, based in the North East. Dylan shares his story of learning to code when he was in school, how he launched his first app when he was 13 years old, and how he started up his own business.

A Newcastle university graduate in Computer Science, Dylan has been named as one of the Top Tech Talent Under 30 and continues to win awards for Nebula Labs, the software house he co-founded. 

With a real passion for tech, Dylan brings some great stories and advice to this first episode of the Haystack - Tech Uncovered podcast.

In episode 3 of the Haystack: Tech Uncovered podcast, Haystack's co-founder Mike Davies chats to CTO and co-founder of Tech Returners, James Heggs. They talk about how he sparked his passion in supporting people back into tech, and how he has built a business around this.

Haystack's co-founder Mike Davies chats to Sage's Talent Acquisition Campaign and Channel Manager, Andy McFetrich. Responsible for all of Sage's global recruitment marketing activities, he has built their first Employee Value Proposition (EVP).

In this first episode, Haystack's co-founder Mike Davies chats to cinch's Technology Director, Jaz Chana about all things tech. From startup life to the transition to scaleup, Jaz shares his exciting career journey with cinch.

James Heggs is the Co-Founder and CTO of Tech Returners, an organisation that helps those who've had a break from their tech careers make a return to software engineering. He's the co-organiser of DevOps Manchester, a tech careers coach and was voted Technology Professional of the Year at the Made in Manchester Awards in 2020.

Andy McFetrich is the Talent Acquisition Campaign & Channel Manager at the global FinTech powerhouse and FTSE 100 organisation, Sage. Andy has played a pivotal role in nurturing tech talent and developing Sage's approach to recruitment marketing and employer branding. 

Dylan McKee is the Co-founder and CEO of the software development studio, Nebula Labs. He is a serial entrepreneur and was noted by Apple at 17 years old for his work developing the mobile app, MyAltitude.