Enginears

We start off by learning more about Pleo and a deep dive into some of their products – Fetch, Virtual Cards, Assurance etc. We’re then uncovering gems around technology: - Why Data is imperative to Pleo - The use of Data Mesh - Cloud-native approaches - Technical Debt - Infrastructure-as-a-Service Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us...

- Discussed integrating 3 products into Momentive.ai/Getfeedback - Discussing Customer Experience and up to 700M requests in a day! - Unlocking business value with champions, guilds and event-driven architectures and streams - Discussing React components on CDN’s Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJ...

Who are Primer? We broke down Primer’s ethos to build a product? “The best DX is no DX”. We broke down Primer’s approach to frontend architectures and moving towards a backend-driven UI. Primer are hiring! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube:...

In this episode: - Breaking down the accounting part of the business and the journey from 2016 to 2020 - In 2020, Spendesk were approved their banking licence and decided to build their own bank to unlock value for customers - Macro-services vs Micro-services - Why latency and tech/product resiliency is so important in banking? - Training engineers to think in events Prefer to watch your podcasts?...

Dott are a European micro-mobility operator specialising in e-scooters & e-bikes. We talked to Evan about their Rider Gateway, Scaling Mobile Applications, Utilising Data at Dott. Careers - https://ridedott.com/careers Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check u...

WeTransfer help thousands securely share and download files in seconds. Antoine is a Technical Lead at WeTransfer, we talked about; introducing SWIFT into their Collect app and their launch of the new WeTransfer file sharing app. Check out WeTransfer at: https://wetransfer.com/ Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http...

TicketSwap are an e-ticket marketplace, offering a safe way to sell second hand tickets. We talk about; domain driven design, technical hiring and TicketSwap’s products. Pascals Blog - https://www.pascaldevink.nl/ DDD Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Implementing-Domain-Driven-Design-Vaughn-Vernon/dp/0321834577 Nick Tune’s Blog - https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog/turning-domain-discov...

Cord help automate the labelling of data for machine learning models We talk about; micro models, training data and computer vision Cord are hiring – https://cord.tech/careers Cords recent funding – https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/15/cord-raises-4-4m-to-automate-computer-vision-annotation-processes/ Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find...

Andy helps us break down Cuvva’s platform from a product/design and engineering perspective” - Andy helps us break down Cuvva’s subscription service and some of the engineering decisions behind that? - Pre-launch of the service and Cuvva decided to use Go (New for us on the pod!) – Andys talk to us a little bit about Go and the leverage that gave Cuvva as a team // decisions they took. - Cuvva’s a...

Ravelin’s technology helps detect and prevent fraudulent payments We talk about; approving transactions for Deliveroo & Glovo, the balance between accuracy vs latency of payments and personalised training models Ravelin are hiring - https://www.ravelin.com/careers If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly...

Inflammatory behaviour is rife on Twitter and any social media platform at the moment. Astroscreen have built ML models to raise the alarm for information warfare; Fake Accounts, Bot Detection, inflammatory behaviour/language. We take Astroscreen on that journey of explaining to us how they moved from a bot classification platform to full misinformation analysis and how that shift in mindset happe...

Plum are a market leader in money management, they help customers automate savings and invest their money. We talked about; migrating to GCP, implementing AI into their product, open banking integrations and calibrating talent! Plum are crowdfunding - https://withplum.com/crowdfunding-2021/ Plum are hiring - https://apply.workable.com/withplum/?lng=en Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out o...

Two bright young founders (Ex-Uber and Palantir) frustrated with the subjectiveness in interviews and a lack of ability to look at the data. They built Metaview to better understand conversations analytics in interviews. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us...

This week we’re joined by Luis Souza at FindHotel, who last year managed 2 million bookings on their platform! We talked about; their Growth Model, Maker vs. Manager and Meta-searching. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube...

We’ll be covering; some of the use cases, SLAMcore’s SDK and the engineering challenges around sensor calibration and mapping. - Intro on Pablo, an overview of SLAMcore and your role. - We learn more about SLAM and their SDK around object recognition, mapping, positioning. - We also discuss the hardware, sensors and algorithms so get involved and listen! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us ou...

How did Hopin build a live online events management platform? In this video, we speak with Joao Fernandes, the Engineering Manager at Hopin, and explore topics around how Hopin were able to build a virtual events platform capable of hosting events for hundreds of thousands of people! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at...

What really is a noSQL database? In this podcast we talk databases with RavenDB to understand how they built their world leading nonSQL database, capable of handling a million reads per second. With applications ranging from RavenDB on a Raspberry Pi to Fortune 500 companies. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http:/...

How did SurePay build a secure payments verification system that is capable of checking as much as 350,000 payment requests a day? In this podcast we talk about SurePay and their challenges around security, payments in the cloud, and scaling SurePay to handle HUGE amounts of payment security checks a day! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also...

So, how are CausaLens creating digital transformation using AI? In this podcast, we talk about CausaLens, their leading Causal AI platform, and how they use Machine Learning and AI to solve problems for businesses in finance, in our post covid world, and much more! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb  You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36c...

How did Codat, the tech scale-up, really build a reliable, heavy loading, financial API? In this podcast, we talk about building a financial API from the ground up, get insights into the engineering challenges at Codat, and understand how Codat used simple technologies to transform themselves into a successful scale-up company. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.l...

What did we talk about? - Building the bare bones of the web/mobile applications with PHP/iOS - Why is it so important to get something to market for a start-up? - Talk to us about being early stage but having to think about technical challenges in 2-3 years' time? - We discuss what that iteration/review process looks like for a startup? - Discussing the decision to move to Serverless? How does th...

We’ll be covering; the 9-month journey from their first line of code to the first transaction, building their own payment rails, improving banking performance and low latency, and offering this knowledge through a B2B BaaS product.   What did we talk about? - What were the challenges here? - What tech did you go with and why? - What were the main trade-offs? - If someone’s listening who’s doing th...

*Imagine cryptocurrencies and other assets at the click of a finger in your favourite investment apps. What did we talk about? Understanding Upvest’s mission. Building an embedded finance model. Difference between Securities/Digital assets. Upvest’s technical orientation. Upvest’s engineering culture and how to create one. Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dC...

Welcome back to Enginears! This week, we sat down with Ryan French from YouView to give insight into what's going on behind the scenes. What did we talk about? YouView’s software architecture, talk to us about the choices/decisions? CQRS etc, going from virtual to containers, what challenges come with that? What challenges or ambiguity come with streaming? Team dynamics and YouView mission, and pl...

Welcome back to Enginears in 2021! To start off we sat down with the team at Football Index to give insight into what's going on behind the scenes. What did we talk about? Talking about building production-ready distributed systems, Mobbing, Trunk-based development, Pairing, etc. Kotlin/Node.js - Frontend builds and customer experience and more! Prefer to watch your podcasts?  Check us out on YouT...