Verified Geek

Super happy to collaborate with Stuart Day from Quality talks podcast!
We dive into my journey through tech, my experience in different roles and the challenges of influencing change within organisations and some tips on how to succeed regardless of your role title.

Thanks for inviting me Stuart! It's been a pleasure. 

Thank you for listening! 

Welcome back!!!

Season 2 episode 1! Let's go!
Listen to Ridvald's inspirational story. Ridvald went from studying engineering to working for Mitsubishi Power Europe and moved on to become a Product Owner at Nationwide Building Society. What does it take to go from engineering to Tech and how does it work? Listen to him talk about moving from Albania to Greece and then to UK and how he likes to engage in politics.
Enjoy!

Hello my dear listeners! This week, my guest is Roman Frolov. Roman’s story is proof that if you really want something in life, you can achieve it with passion and hard work. How did he learn how to code while working in his mum’s restaurant?

What and who motivated him? Does he believe in the imposter syndrome? Becoming a founder and his current career. Don’t miss it!

Welcome back to the Verified Geek podcast ! This week, my guest is Glenn Jacobs. Glenn has an incredible journey in Tech, starting from a young age by learning how to code using magazines. He created the first Spice Girls website while studying computer science at university! He eventually found out that the website was ranking no 1 in Atlavista. Yes! Before Google! Eventually, he started his own agency doing websites and e-commerce services. Glenn’s latest creation is GetCandy. What is it?  and how can you use it for your own benefit? What is Laravel? Enjoy!

You can find Glenn on linkedin as Glenn Jacobs and take a look at GetCandy at https://getcandy.io/

Welcome to the first episode of 2022!!! This is the story of Karrie Liu.

Karrie Liu is the founder of Hypatia Analytics Ltd and mathematician with 10+ years of experience in UK healthcare and life sciences, focused on providing additional value to clients through driving end-to-end consulting engagements to enable business transformation through impactful and actionable insights.

 Karrie sets up Hypatia Analytics in 2019, in hope of getting the balance between working as freelance data scientist in corporate assignments and spending time into pro bono projects and charities. She believes data and mathematics are at the heart of better decision-making and is important to apply these insights into their planning.

So please listen to her journey and ideas and if you are a Python, R programmer or a data scientist and want to get involved into some volunteering work, please reach out to Karrie on
[email protected] or find her on linkedin as Karrie Liu.

We also talk about women in STEM and Karrie's 2019 Top 100 Women in Tech award win!

Enjoy!

Welcome to the last episode of 2021!
Christian Lüdemann recently made a post on linkedin that went Viral. 'How I made my first million dollars as a software engineer at 27 years old. What does such a journey look like?'
 Well, let's hear it from him!
You can find Christian on linkedin as Christian Lüdemann or visit his course website here https://christianlydemann.com/

Enjoy the episode and please don't forget to leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Thank you

See you in 2022!!

 Nicos Marcou, Talent consultant at EY  takes us through his career journey and discusses recruitment and talent acquisition. 
 Part 2  (current episode)
What should companies do to keep their employees happy. Why do people leave their jobs? What makes a successful leader?

Part 1 (previous episode)
What are the soft skills to prioritise before hiring?
What does a recruitment consultant actually do?
What makes a successful CV and much more.

Stay tuned!

You are in for a treat! Nicos Marcou, Talent consultant at EY  takes us through his career journey and discusses recruitment and talent acquisition. 
What are the soft skills to prioritise before hiring?
What does a recruitment consultant actually do?
What makes a successful CV and much more.

And that is only Part 1!

Stay tuned for Part 2 --> What should companies do to keep their employees happy. Why do people leave their jobs? What makes a successful leader?  <-- coming next Sunday!

Hello and Welcome back our fellow listeners! This week, we have with us, an exceptional guest that didn't always work in Tech but has a fascinating journey. David started his career at Bloomberg and is now a founding partner at Blue Lake, a UK based early-stage VC that invests in startups.  
What happened to UK investing in Ukrainian companies and startups? How was Blue Lake Accelerator created? What mistakes do founders do? How easy is it to find investors and how do you do it? All these questions answered by David here. 

If you want to contact David you can find him on linkedin as David Gilgur or email him at [email protected]

David on Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisoncoleman/2020/02/09/the-entrepreneur-helping-ukraines-startup-talent-to-go-global/?sh=5b41766f7736

Enjoy!

All the way from San Fransisco, Ryan Wisnesky takes us on a journey of his career in Tech. Starting as a QA Engineer, moving to programming and eventually starting a company as a co-founder that was based on his final dissertation for his PhD at Harvard. Do Mathematicians need to know programming these days? How has his company, Conexus, helped Uber? What are the main responsibilities of a CTO and much more. Enjoy! and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes.

Here are some links that Ryan shared with us.
How academic start-ups differ: https://www.kauffman.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/fromlabbenchtoinnovation.pdf 

Work with Uber: paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04881 and community outreach: https://eng.uber.com/dragon-schema-integration-at-uber-scale/  and https://www.meetup.com/Category-Theory/events/zpvmgsyccfbhc/ 

General audience article on category theory: https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-category-theory-mathematics-escapes-from-equality-20191010/