Venturi's Voice: Technology | Leadership | Staffing | Career | Innovation
689 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsVenturi’s Voice brings you conversation with leaders from various technology disciplines - data, cyber security, development, cloud, infrastructure, business intelligence and more… Each week you will be able to relate, take inspiration and action the business education from our compelling guests. Outside of technology we tend to cover; career progression, influences, best practices, leadership, talent, recruitment and the inspiration behind our guest successes in career and life!
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Extracting the True Value of Data | Nina Monckton
January 19, 2021 14:05 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBNina Monckton is Head of Data Strategy, Advancing Analytics & Data Science at AXA Health. Managing the Data and Analytics overarching strategy for AXA PPP healthcare and its customers by responding to opportunities using creativity, innovation, leadership and communication expertise to bring new strategies to life. A recognised thought leader in the delivery of successful big data analytics. Creates, leads, motivates and manages large technical teams. Nina was winner of the 2019 Women...
Leading a Business as a Software Engineer @ Solution Street | Arthur Frankel
January 14, 2021 12:14 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBArthur Frankel is the founder of Solution Street and has over 25 years of professional experience solving tough business problems. His career has spanned the many changes in technology from large mainframe systems to PCs to client/server to web applications. Over the years he has worked with some of the largest and complex enterprise-wide systems for financial and telecommunications companies. Arthur was a Senior Principal for American Management Systems, Inc, and a Director of Softwar...
Moving Real Estate into the Digital Age @ Street Group | Thomson & Heather Staff
January 12, 2021 10:45 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBBen sat down with Thomson Staff & Heather Staff, the Co-Founders of Street Group, to discuss leading through innovation and the development of their new industry-dominating technology. Street Group is the new name for Agent Software, the team behind Spectre & Hello Again, and their brand new product Street.co.uk. Their mission is to elevate how agents and their clients manage the process of moving home. Street Group have three products, with one goal: To provide a seamless customer ex...
Leading Digital Transformation @ Berenberg | Chris Sassons
January 07, 2021 13:16 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBChris has over 14 years’ experience within the Banking and Financial Services sector, working in key roles at Berenberg Bank and Fitch Ratings. As Head of Digital Transformation at Berenberg, Chris operates across the full product lifecycle, establishing agile and continuous improvement environments and leads onshore and offshore development teams to achieve on-time delivery of projects. Established in 1590, Berenberg is one of the oldest banks in the world, with its Head Office in Ham...
Going Cloud-Native in 12 Months @ Investec | Seán Óg Travers
January 05, 2021 11:13 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBSeán Óg is Chief Technology Officer - Digital Savings at Investec, an experienced technology leader who understands what it takes to build high performing teams. He has cultivated a career largely based in the financial services industry, and began his career as a software engineer and has also built a successful start-up within a corporate environment. Investec is an international banking and wealth management group providing a range of financial products and services to a client base...
Attracting Diverse Talent @ SeatGeek | Rakhee Gupta
December 17, 2020 11:59 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBRakhee Gupta is Technical Recruiting Manager at SeatGeek, overseeing all technical recruiting across Engineering and Product in NYC and Israel. SeatGeek is a mobile-focused ticket platform that enables users to buy and sell tickets for live sports, concerts and theatre events. SeatGeek allows both mobile app and desktop users to browse events, view interactive color-coded seatmaps, complete purchases, and receive electronic or print tickets. Rakhee’s team has aggressive hiring goals a...
How to Build a Strong Career in Tech | Thiago Ghisi
December 16, 2020 15:02 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBThiago Ghisi is an Engineering Director based in New York City. He has 15+ years of experience in Software Development, passing in corporations and startups in Brazil and the US, working as a Software Engineer, QA, Product Manager, Consultant across a wide variety of domains and technologies, and more recently as Engineering Manager in the Mobile Space. In 2007, he stumbled upon Extreme Programming and since then has focused on learning, applying, and sharing processes and practices o...
Building High-Performing, Successful Teams @ Simply Business | Hasani Jess
December 15, 2020 13:57 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBHasani Jess is the UK Chief Technology Officer at Simply Business, responsible for the InsureTechs technology vision. His wide ranging expertise and forward-thinking approach enables him to devise and execute ambitious long-term technology strategies. A recognized technology thought-leader, Hasani has operated in multiple domains spanning two decades including telecoms, government, finance, healthcare and retail. In 2019 he was recognized as one of the top business leaders in technolog...
Using Tech to Speed Up & Improve Workflows @ Yobota | Alexandru Toea
December 10, 2020 12:32 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBAlexandru Toea is Lead Front End Developer at Yobota. Yobota's core banking platform allows established, and challenger financial institutions to launch innovative products in a fast and reliable way. Their mission is about creating the future standard of financial technology. The Yobota Platform allows established and challenger financial institutions to create innovative, user-centric financial products, and run them from origination and through the life of the account. Yobota's plat...
Driving Business Towards Efficiency @ Oetker Digital GmbH | Valon Buxhovi & Martin Reible
December 09, 2020 12:31 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBMartin Reible is Interim Lead - Data & Insights Team at Oetker Digital. Helping to enable and shape data product development for Oetker Group companies, Oetker Digital & its ventures. Martin is currently leading Oetker Digital's Data and Analytics & Optimization teams. Aspiring to create & foster a team environment that is characterized by autonomy, trust & true ownership. Valon Buxhovi is Business Intelligence Manager at Oetker Digital GmbH, driving business towards efficiency, sustai...
Leading a Global Technology Output @ AnalogFolk | Miguel Alvarez
December 08, 2020 11:10 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBMiguel Alvarez is Global CTO at AnalogFolk. AnalogFolk is a global digital creative agency, independently owned since 2008. Their mission is to use digital technology to make the analog world better – creating more intuitive customer journeys, enabling more customer-led uses of data, integrating seamless tech and building breakthrough campaigns. Winner of Campaign’s Global Digital Innovation Agency of the Year 2019. As CTO, Miguel is responsible for leading the AnalogFolk Global techn...
How we can do Data better | Robert Hook - Leap Beyond Analytics
December 03, 2020 11:49 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBRobert Hook is Managing Partner of Leap Beyond Analytics, and is a software engineer with over 30 years of experience in a broad range of industries, and with a very broad skill set. His passion is creating robust, high-performance software, with a desire to create the right solution first time, every time. He is particularly excited by and interested in the problems involved in extracting knowledge from large volumes of data, and in building complex, high availability, high-performance...
Optimising the Content that You're Learning | Sam Williams - CompleteCoding.io
December 02, 2020 14:48 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBSam Williams is Serverless AWS Solution Architect and Consultant | Developer Training at CompleteCoding.io. Complete Coding has years of experience taking projects from idea, through design and build, to deployment. They utilise Serverless and AWS to remove the barriers and deliver results faster. Sam previously worked at Mission Labs as Lead Software Engineer before making the move to Complete Coding, which has grown from a log of Sam's journey into software development, to a thrivin...
Is Leadership Learned or Innate? Amit Patel | British Heart Foundation
December 01, 2020 12:29 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBIs Leadership Learned or Innate? We sat down with Amit Patel, who is an Experienced Technology Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Currently working as Director of Technology Design and Engineering at The British Heart Foundation. During the podcast, we spoke about Amit's career history up to this point, how Amit has developed his own leadership style, best leadership practices, pitfalls to be aware of, and advice for anyo...
‘Moving in’ to Manchester’s Tech Scene @ Housemates | Lydia Jones
November 27, 2020 13:20 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBFounded by entrepreneur Lydia Jones in 2018, Housemates is both a marketplace and SaaS solution which allows students around the world book accommodation fast, secure and 100% online. Housemates enable global PBSA operators to convert students into bookings across all acquisition channels without the associated cost. Lydia's team has helped revolutionise multiple sectors for challenger brands such as Starling Bank and VibePay, along with those who have worked for established companies ...
The Tech Innovations Behind Sainsbury's | Chris Grice
November 25, 2020 13:10 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBChris Grice is an Engineering Manager within the Order and Fulfil team at Sainsbury's Tech. Previous to Sainsbury's, Chris has worked in 3rd sector organisations, web agencies, radio, and now retail. During the podcast episode, we spoke about the logistics involved with planning an infrastructure with so many moving parts, the technology involved with staying ahead of the curve in one of the largest chain of supermarkets in the UK. As the business is ever-scaling, how does the tech te...
Supporting the Startup Ecosystem | Jared Sheehan & Joni Pepin
November 19, 2020 11:18 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBCurrently, Jared Sheehan leads a dynamic Mobile Software Engineering organization for the Capital One Credit Card Line of Business. He is accountable for the delivery of 20+ teams supporting the Capital One flagship mobile applications (iOS / Android / Cloud). Additionally, Jared is an organizer / founder of 6 DC area meetups, multiple conferences (DevFestDC and Android Summit) and an extensive history of supporting the startup ecosystem through membership to several advisory boards. ...
Implementing Machine Learning @ Wunderflats | Kevin Jolly
November 17, 2020 11:36 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBKevin Jolly is Head of Data and Advanced Analytics at Wunderflats, a Data-driven strategist, leader & author based in Berlin, Germany. As a member of senior leadership, Kevin leads the data & advanced analytics practice & design data-driven / Machine Learning solutions for Germany's leading marketplace platform for furnished homes. "The world creates data at an exponential rate. I harness, shape & derive value from this data through a structured process that combines design thinking &...
Transitioning to Flutter at Scale @ Betterment | Sam Moore
November 04, 2020 12:03 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBSam Moore is Principal Engineer at Betterment. Betterment is a smart money manager offering everyday cash management, savings plans, and goals. Sam and his team at Betterment have recently decided to migrate from their existing native code to Flutter. As Betterment has taken the shift to 'mobile-first' Sam gives some amazing insight on how this has worked at scale, and how they have strategized the integration. This is a big decision for any business, so we hear what made Sam decide t...
Understanding & Developing your Leadership Style @ American Express | Dan Leonardis
October 29, 2020 14:41 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBDan Leonardis is Software Engineering Manager at American Express. Dan is a proven leader across Android and iOS platforms, has worked on android applications since 2009 and iOS since 2013. He has worked in all roles that are required to build successful applications, including building distributed systems, whether it's user experience, design, architecture, development or web services. Currently, Dan leads a team of engineers in developing new products, both personally and professiona...
Building and Innovating for the Future @ PrettyLittleThing | Adeel Ejaz
October 27, 2020 09:16 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBAdeel Ejaz is Head of Technology at PrettyLittleThing. Adeel is a hands-on technology leader, with over 14 years of experience with product and technical leadership. He has held high-impact senior development and technical leadership roles, empowering global organizations across B2B, healthcare, and retail industries to achieve rapid growth through strategic business planning, process improvements, and technical management. In recent times, consumerism has changed dramatically, from p...
The Power of Building Robust Teams @ Railsbank | Nico Cortés
October 21, 2020 13:09 - 29 minutes - 27 MBNico Cortés is Talent Acquisition Specialist at Railsbank. Railsbank is a banking and compliance platform. It is a B2B company that connects a network of banks, financial institutions and compliance providers to companies that want to integrate global banking into their app or business. They have set out to make it super simple to access financial services by giving "access to global banking with 5 lines of code". Nico gives us some amazing advice for fellow Recruiters and an insight ...
Helping Influencers Build Brands @ Genflow | Zamen Akbar & Shahzaib Muneeb
October 15, 2020 13:55 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBShahzaib Muneeb is Head of Development at Genflow, and Zamen Akbar is Head of People at Genflow. Genflow partners with influencers to help them build their own business and sell products to their audience. They work closely with clients to determine what products will sell the best for them according to their audience and analytics. They are a team of business managers who manage everything from product design, manufacturing, shipping, fulfilment, marketing, ads and the overall launch ...
Navigating a Career in Tech & Avoiding Burnout | Amy Boyd | Formidable
October 08, 2020 08:52 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBAmy Boyd is an advisor to start-ups and the Engineering Manager at Formidable: a tech consultancy business that helps your team work smarter, by optimising your design and engineering practices and defining your software needs. Amy is a self-taught coder who has worked in the start-up industry for many years and helped a wide range of team sizes and sectors, meaning she is adaptable and her knowledge is particularly expansive. She has recently taken a break from start-ups to join Formi...
Combining Machine Learning with Human Experience @ Peerox GmbH | Markus Windisch
October 06, 2020 09:19 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBMarkus Windisch is CTO and Founder of Peerox GmbH. Peerox GmbH develops assistance systems for machine operators and technicians that combine machine learning with human experience. Their mission is to use software solutions to make employee knowledge available company-wide at any time and according to the situation, and to achieve a new level of production efficiency through the exchange of information between colleagues and machines. Markus and the team at Peerox have a modern appro...
The Future of Data-Driven Healthcare @ Tempus | Luke Shepard & Alissa Ampezzan
October 01, 2020 10:17 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBThe Future of Data-Driven Healthcare at Tempus, with Luke Shepard & Alissa Ampezzan. Luke leads the Insights Engineering team and Alissa is Senior Director, Head of Product Design and Customer Experience. Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. With one of the world’s largest libraries of clinical and molecular data, and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful, Tempus en...
Advice for Recruiting Tech Talent | Clifton Jadoo | Foursquare
September 29, 2020 09:12 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBClifton Jadoo manages technical and product recruitment at Foursquare. After graduating from Brooklyn College summa cum laude with a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Sociology and from NYU School of Engineering with a M.S. in Management with a double concentration in Project Management and Technology Management, Clifton found his way into recruitment and later refining his career into Tech Recruitment. Foursquare is a technology platform that powers leading business solutions and cons...
Andy Talks DevOps @ FOOTASYLUM | Andy Norton
September 24, 2020 11:28 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBAndy Norton worked in software development at organisations both big and small, with a keen focus on people, delivery and pragmatic solutions based around agile, lean and DevOps practices. After graduating from The University of Salford with a degree in Computer Science and computing, he has worked in the field as a Software Developer, Senior Developer, Software Architect, and now finds himself as a Software Development Manager at FOOTASYLUM, which is a streetwear fashion retailer with...
The Value of Building a Personal Brand: Advice and Tactics | Chris Samiullah
September 22, 2020 09:19 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBChris Samiullah is Technical Lead at Babylon Health, an online course author, conference speaker and writer. Chris has been writing code for 8 years, and for the past three years has focused on scaling machine learning applications. He has done this at fintech and health-tech companies in London, where he has worked on and grown production machine learning applications used by hundreds of thousands of people. And currently works on systems for predicting health risks for patients aroun...
Dev Stories: The Coding Journey with Ashley Firth | Octopus Energy
September 17, 2020 08:45 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBAshley Firth built and leads the Front-end department at Octopus Energy, crafting sites and internal tools, building new products and campaigns, and expanding into other countries. Their aim is to combat climate change, use technology to build a better standard of energy supplier, and make renewable energy more affordable for everyone. In May 2020, Octopus Energy became the 15th UK tech “unicorn” after achieving a valuation of over £1 billion. Ashley has also written a book: 'Practical...
Closing the Gender Gap in Tech | Megan Sun | OLX Group
September 15, 2020 09:13 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBMegan Sun has an impressive career history from a data strategy consultant at BCG, to a Data Science Consultant at IBM, before moving to Berlin last year to start a new role as Senior Program Manager at OLX Group. The OLX marketplace is a platform for buying and selling services and goods such as electronics, fashion items, furniture, household goods, cars and bikes. In 2014, the platform reportedly had 11 billion page views, 200 million monthly active users, 25 million listings, and 8...
Why You'd Want an Autonomous Engineering Culture | Natalia Baltazar
September 10, 2020 10:05 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBNatalia Baltazar is Head of Engineering at Lantum. Lantum is a health tech startup, working on solving the issues around scheduling and rotas within healthcare. Natalia has a very unconventional journey into tech, beginning her working life as a teenager running her own fashion design business in Canada, before moving to the UK and managing a boutique clothing shop in Shoreditch. The transition into tech came from learning how to code on her own and helping to create a coding Bootcamp ...
Leading the Flutter Transformation @ Very Good Ventures | David DeRemer
September 08, 2020 08:27 - 41 minutes - 38 MBDavid DeRemer is Founder and President of Very Good Ventures, a Flutter development consultancy with offices in New York, Chicago, and teammates around the world. Very Good Ventures is the World’s leading Flutter development team. They have been working with Flutter longer than anyone and on the biggest Flutter apps, including the first commercial app outside of Google in 2017 — the Hamilton app. Flutter is a UI toolkit created by Google for building beautiful, natively compiled app...
Travel and Festival Experiences @ Pollen.co | David Ives | VP Engineering
September 04, 2020 09:39 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBDavid Ives is VP Engineering at Pollen, an international marketplace scale-up, changing the game in live music, youth culture and travel. Following several successful acquisitions in the travel space, they are already the market leader across North America, which has allowed them to tap into an increasingly larger share of a $12 billion market. As a service that’s core is dependant on group activities and experiences, we hear how Pollen.co is managing to grow in an industry that's rapi...
The Virtual Festival Experience @ The World's Online Festival | Gary Knight & Martin Rosinski
September 02, 2020 09:59 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBMartin Rosinski is Founder & Chief of Tech at The World's Online Festival, with an impressive previous technical history having created Palringo, which was the first ever chat app to launch on the Apple App Store (2008), and then became the first mobile app to introduce chatbots – and the first to introduce sticker packs (2011). Building on its proven heritage of world-first innovation, and leveraging its state-of-the-art technology platform, Palringo has now introduced a breakthrough m...
Integrating Data to Scale @ Datadrivers GmbH | Erik Christiansen
September 01, 2020 09:42 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBErik Christiansen is Head of AI and Data Science at Datadrivers GmbH, a consulting company for business intelligence, big data, data-driven infrastructures, data analytics and technology consulting. We spoke about some of the pitfalls to be aware of when integrating a Data Science team into an organisation, and how to avoid these common issues. Keeping up with the ever-evolving technology and trends within Data Science and AI, and what some of these trends are, as well as what works an...
CTO Stories: Building & Testing the Collctiv App | Pete Casson
August 27, 2020 09:24 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBPete Casson is CTO of Collctiv, the group payments app, designed to take the hassle out of collecting money for a group purchase or booking. With over 15 years of transforming technology within business, removing complications, and pioneering new products Pete is a sought-after expert and speaker. Having launched a World's First Multiplayer Augmented Reality app for Education and featured as 'App of the Day' on the App Store, Pete has built a reputation for tackling seemingly impossib...
Advanced Analytics & Data Gurus | David Rice & Tom Bruce | Snap Analytics
August 25, 2020 10:20 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBModern Cloud Data Platforms: How using such platforms and innovations in the cloud can help you create insights faster with less risk and less cost. We caught up with David Rice, CEO and Co-founder and Tom Bruce, Delivery Lead and Co-founder of Snap Analytics. Snap Analytics deliver solutions that simplify and accelerate data projects, focusing on ensuring that technology and data helps you to clearly achieve your strategic goals whatever they may be. Never before has the power of dat...
Autonomous Economic Agents @ Fetch.ai | David Minarsch
August 20, 2020 10:20 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBDavid Minarsch holds a PhD in Applied Game Theory from the University of Cambridge, is a researcher at Fetch.AI where he researches and prototypes consensus mechanisms and smart markets, combining game theory expertise with engineering and product experience in machine learning and blockchain. He has conducted cutting-edge research on the Economics of Networks, strategy of conflict and political competition and is a co-founder of Panopy. Fetch.ai is building an open access, tokenized, ...
Partnership Model of Recruiting @ Policygenius | Cindy Gordon & Nadia Danford
August 18, 2020 09:54 - 37 minutes - 34 MBCindy Gordon is Chief People Officer at Policygenius, and Nadia Danford, who is Senior Director of People at www.policygenius.com Policygenius is America's leading online insurance marketplace. Their mission is to help people get insurance right by making it easy for them to understand their options, compare quotes, and buy a policy, all in one place. Since 2014, they've placed $35 billion in coverage and helped over 100,000 families get the financial protection they need. We hear abo...
The Evolution of Location Data @ Ordnance Survey | Lisa Allen
August 13, 2020 13:46 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBLisa Allen is Head of Data and Analytical Services at Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey is Britain's mapping agency. We make the most up-to-date and accurate maps of the country. They're also a digital business, and use their content to help governments, companies and individuals to be more effective both here and around the world. Lisa is a data leader and data expert and has gained experience across many data disciplines from data strategy, data governance, open data, data quality to...
Tech for Good @ FlixBus | Anna Derinova-Hartmann
August 11, 2020 11:11 - 48 minutes - 44 MBAnna Derinova-Hartmann is Charter Tech Domain Lead at FlixBus. Anna is an M.A. educated Programme Manager, Project Manager and Change Manager with a track record of achievement within International Relations and Global Politics. We spoke about the importance of leveraging tech in society and the impact this can have. Anna shares advice on how it's best to attract talent as an aspiring entrepreneur, and advice for developers looking to put together a pitch to potential investors, along ...
Building a Good Engineering Culture @ Formidable | Chris Bolin
August 06, 2020 10:18 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBChris Bolin serves as the VP of Engineering for Formidable Denver and is an accomplished speaker and instructor. Prior to joining Formidable, Chris was the first engineer at Jumpshell, the lead data scientist at Autotegrity, and an engineer at National Instruments. Chris serves as technical lead on high-profile projects while also directing the Formidable Denver office. Chris holds a Master’s in Computational Engineering from MIT, and loves teaching, mentoring, and presenting. He has ta...
Dealing with Unforeseen Popularity @ Postmates | Sanket Agarwal
August 04, 2020 11:01 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBSanket Agarwal has an impressive career history working with Google in Silicon Valley followed by a stint at a start-up and now finds himself as an Engineering Manager at Postmates. Founded in 2011, Postmates was one of the first to let customers in the U.S. order meal delivery using a mobile app. In the latest development, Uber has announced that it has acquired Postmates in a $2.65 billion, all-stock deal. We spoke about what the company was like in its early stages and how the app...
Gear4Music & Their Transition to Remote Working | Dan Cryer & Amelia Carey
July 30, 2020 15:12 - 27 minutes - 25 MBWe were joined by Dan Cryer and Amelia Carey from Gear4Music to hear how the UK's No. 1 online music store has transitioned to remote working and how they have overcome some of the unforeseen issues that have arisen whilst still taking on new employees. Dan Cryer is a web development and technology specialist who helps manage the technical team at Gear4music.com as the Head of Technical Operations. He is a full stack developer with a focus on PHP, MySQL and related technologies, with p...
How Tech and Creative People Collaborate | Phaedra Marshall
July 28, 2020 10:03 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBPhaedra Marshall is Vice President of Technology at Critical Mass, a digital experience design agency with a particular focus on the customer. For more than two decades, Critical Mass has been designing meaningful customer experiences in the digital space that transform clients’ businesses through interactions that are convenient, useful, simple, and entertaining. Their expertise spans Strategy Consulting, Experience Design, Marketing Communications, Implementation, and Marketing Scienc...
The Realities of Being a Solo Agency Owner | Pete Reis-Campbell
July 23, 2020 09:01 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBPete Reis-Campbell is the CEO and Founder of the award-winning Kaizen. He has worked with global brands including River Island, Symantec and 888.com on innovative content marketing campaigns. He built his first website at 11, pretends to not be totally addicted to video games, and is a regular speaker at digital marketing conferences including SMX, BrightonSEO and SASCon. Kaizen's work for TotallyMoney.com won a 2016 Drum Content Award for the best financial content marketing campaign ...
Transitioning to Engineering Management | Daljeet Kukreja
July 22, 2020 09:50 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBAndy sits down with Daljeet, Compass’ Director of Engineering. On the show, the pair discuss transitioning from a hands-on role to engineering management, diversity in India and more. Daljeet has several years of experience providing Technical Architect Solutions for Business Applications (J2EE Applications) which includes designing, development, building Frameworks. With extensive experience leading Development teams across geographic locations and delivering high-quality code. Also r...
The New Responsibilities of the Travel Industry | Emily Dresner
July 21, 2020 09:57 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBEmily Dresner is Chief Technology Officer at Upside Business Travel. Emily has built and scaled a department initially of 5 engineers to a team of 60 across 11 teams including multiple product development teams, a machine learning/AI team, DevOps, data engineering, security, infrastructure and quality engineering. Upside Business Travel is revolutionizing travel management for small to mid-sized companies. We hear about how Upside is in place to react and adapt to the current pandemic ...
Tailoring Data Solutions at Superdry | Brad Woodward
July 16, 2020 12:33 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBBrad Woodward is the Business Intelligence Manager at Superdry. As one of the biggest fashion brands on the planet, we spoke about the data that Brad and the team work with at Superdry and how to navigate around the sheer quantity of it. We also spoke about how data is helping not only the eCommerce shop but also the brick & mortar experience too. These two areas of the business now cross-pollinate as they are now more able to collect important data from the physical store, and they g...