Parul, our JavaScript consultant welcomes Clare Sudbery, Lead Engineer at Made Tech as her next podcast guest. 

Clare Sudbery is a lead engineer with Made Tech, and a maths graduate with 21 years of software experience.  

In 2009 she abandoned IT to retrain as a high school maths teacher... but quickly returned to software, gaining a new lease of life via Extreme Programming. She now helps to run Made Tech’s academy programme and hosts the acclaimed Making Tech Better podcast. 

She is also a published novelist.

Clare and Parul explore her slightly unusual journey intro tech. Clare started working in tech in the 90's, then left to spend some time as a teacher before returning into tech. Clare shares her honest experience navigating the industry and the lessons she learnt along the way.

Connect with Clare : https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-sudbery-35939540/

Parul welcomes Paul Aldred-Bann to her podcast to talk about "Learning to give and take criticism" 

Paul is a Software Craftsperson at Codurance. He considers himself an engineer rather than a developer, because his main focus is to solve problems. Sometimes he discovers those problems and he helps define and plan around how to solve that problem. 

Paul and Parul explore : 

• What is criticism?
• Is it always negative? How does it differ from feedback? 
• Criticism in code

Parul welcomes back James Wright, Senior Software Engineer to talk about DenoJS. 

Deno is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript (https://deno.land/). Parul and James explore the similarities and differences between NodeJS and DenoJS, how he went about using it and some advice for people who would like to use it 

A great video to watch linked to this would be Ryan Dahl - 10 things I regret about NodeJS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA 

Social links : 

https://twitter.com/parulsingh1995 

https://twitter.com/jamesseanwright

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecodingrecruiter1/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesseanwright/ 

Parul Singh, our JavaScript Consultant, welcomes Chris Cooney to the MP podcast to discuss "Why Companies Fail to Market Their Product to Engineers" 

Chris began as a Java engineer and worked across the stack, all the way from front end with React to DevOps and cloud engineering. Now, in addition to his role as a senior cloud engineer for Sainsbury’s, he runs a small marketing company, aimed at helping companies create content to engage with developers.

Areas Parul and Chris explore : 

• What does "marketing to engineers" mean?
• Why is this type of marketing so unique 
• Where do companies go wrong when marketing their products to engineers? 
• What are some classic mistakes?
• Tips to do marketing right 
• What forms of media do engineers most commonly consume? 

Connect with / Follow Chris : 

https://twitter.com/chris_cooney 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%9C%92%EF%B8%8F-chris-cooney-06751870/ 

Parul Singh, our JavaScript consultant sits down for an interview with Anna Holland-Smith, Director of Engineer Development at Automattic. You might have heard of Automattic, they're the people behing Wordpress and Tumblr, and they have had fully remote distributed teams since their inception (so way before it was cool!). In this podcast, Parul and Anna discuss : 

• The future of (remote) work and the need to promote flexibility and inclusion in Tech. 
• How Automattic, which has been remote from its inception, approaches and embraces the challenges of remote work. 
• The benefits of part time working options and what Automattic has done in this space. 
• Setting effective boundaries when working in a distributed team. 

Parul, our javaScript Consultant sits down with Dave Mason, Head of Software Engineering at Lad Bible Group for a 2 part podcast series on Daves "12 Months Rebuilding All The Things"

Dave has been working in software engineering for almost 20 years now, starting out as a developer just as .NET was first released by Microsoft.He’s been responsible for building and running engineering teams for at least half of that, at businesses including leasing.com, Zuto and currently LADbible Group.

No longer in the Microsoft stack, Dave now specialises in fullstack JavaScript, cloud-native architecture and containerisation, as well as building high performing teams and engineer career development.

Just over a year ago, Dave was granted that rarest of opportunities: to completely rebuild a department and a technology stack at a world-renowned digital business. We'll be talking about how I went about this, and a few lessons I learned along the way.

We're going to cover four things that Dave did, that he believes worked really well. 

This episode covers: 

• Build a World Class Development Environment
• Build a Culture

Part 1 covered : 

• Build Relationships
• Build a Great Hiring Process

Parul, our javaScript Consultant sits down with Dave Mason, Head of Software Engineering at Lad Bible Group for a 2 part podcast series on Daves "12 Months Rebuilding All The Things"

Dave has been working in software engineering for almost 20 years now, starting out as a developer just as .NET was first released by Microsoft.He’s been responsible for building and running engineering teams for at least half of that, at businesses including leasing.com, Zuto and currently LADbible Group.

No longer in the Microsoft stack, Dave now specialises in fullstack JavaScript, cloud-native architecture and containerisation, as well as building high performing teams and engineer career development.

Just over a year ago, Dave was granted that rarest of opportunities: to completely rebuild a department and a technology stack at a world-renowned digital business. We'll be talking about how I went about this, and a few lessons I learned along the way.

We're going to cover four things that Dave did, that he believes worked really well. 

Part 1 will cover : 

• Build Relationships
• Build a Great Hiring Process

Part 2 will cover (to be released on 18th Dec) : 

• Build a World Class Development Environment
• Build a Culture

"What's the future of the Tech Market for Junior Developers?" with Liam Bateman, Co-Founder & CTO at Silverchip and Duha Aziz, .NET Recruitment Consultant & Diversity and Inclusion Advocate at Manhattan Partners

Liam is the Co-founder and CTO at Silverchip – an award winning digital agency based in Manchester, and he’s talking to Duha Aziz on the first installment of the podcast series exploring new trends in the tech market and how we can support people from diverse backgrounds into a career in tech!

Tune in to hear about the amazing ‘School Meal Finder’ web application designed by Silverchip, inspired by Marcus Rashford. Liam shares with us the behind the scenes of the site, which saw nearly 3000 organizations band together and pledge to provide meals for children across the UK over the half-term who would have been without. #EndChildFoodPoverty

In this podcast you will also hear Duha and Liam discuss and analyze the current market, exploring what the future looks like for Junior level developers and Liam give’s lots of practical tips and advice.

Parul Singh, JavaScript Consultant, welcomes back James Heggs for the second part of their podcast collaboration to talk about "retaining tech talent".

Its a well known fact that retention in the tech sector is pretty poor, Parul and James explore :

• Why is tech retention so poor?
• Does being fully remote make it harder on retention? 
• What can you do to retain your tech talent in an ever increasinly competitive market. 
• Counter offers - should you ever take one?