SEEK Bytes

This special Season 3 finale of SEEK Bytes – a podcast for engineers by engineers – dives into one of the biggest AI engineering shifts of the moment: spec-driven development with GitHub Spec Kit. If you’ve been wondering how teams are using AI for more than just code completion, this episode unpacks a workflow designed to help engineers plan better, reduce drift and build higher-quality software...

What happens when you give 100 high school students four days, real SEEK mentors and a crash course in how tech actually works? In this episode of SEEK Bytes – we're joined by special guests Asha Ioculari and Leon Belobrov and go behind the scenes of Camp SEEK, SEEK’s immersive program designed to open the doors of tech to girls and non-binary students and show them there’s far more to this indust...

Ever shipped a UI that “works” but still feels clunky, janky or confusing to users? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott and Will chat with lead engineer Eddy Nguyen about Bleeds – a simple but powerful way to design every UI state your users actually experience, not just the happy path. This episode's special guest: Eddy Nguyen (SEEK Lead Engineer) Eddy breaks down how Bleeds (Blank, Loading, E...

AI might look simple on the surface — just send a prompt, get a response — but behind the scenes, there’s a whole platform challenge to solve. In this episode of SEEK Bytes – we’re joined by Thet Ko, Senior Staff Engineer in SEEK’s AI Platform Services team, to unpack how SEEK is building an AI Gateway to centralise AI calls, improve governance and make it easier for teams to build with AI without...

AI is moving fast — but are we building it responsibly? In this episode of SEEK Bytes – we sit down with Sreyna Rath, CEO and co-founder of jaimee.ai, who arrived in Australia as a refugee and is now running her own AI company with the aim to create something truly transformative for women. Elliott sits down with Reyna to unpack her journey and the real-world risks of AI bias, why safety can’t be...

Still throwing one prompt at an AI agent and hoping for the best? In this episode of SEEK Bytes – we unpack PERL: Plan, Execute, Review and Learn — a smarter way to work with AI that helps teams get better outputs, catch mistakes earlier and turn trial-and-error into a repeatable workflow. This is the episode for anyone curious about how AI tools are really being used inside modern tech teams — no...

What happens when a designer with almost no coding experience picks up an AI tool and starts building a working product prototype – and then a staff engineer has to make sense of it all? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott Millar, Seamus, Arnav and Staff Engineer Helen Giapitzakis dive into “vibe coding”: using AI agents, context and prompts to build software by feel instead of by hand. This ep...

Drowning in new AI tools and wondering which ones actually help you ship better software? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott, Seamus and Will react to the latest wave of AI‑powered dev tools, from coding assistants and test generators to agents that promise to refactor your whole codebase while you sleep. They dig into what these tools are really good at (speeding up boilerplate, exploring API...

What if you could spin up a whole AI workforce on your own machine – planners, “engineers”, researchers and content creators – and run it all from a simple chat window? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, we explore OpenClaw, the agent platform that lets you act like the CEO while AI agents do the grunt work in the background. In this episode you’ll learn: • How OpenClaw turns AI into a digital team –...

Imagine updating a trusted monorepo tool… and the next time you open your terminal it asks for your password, then tries to shut your machine down. In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Will, Seamus and SEEK Staff Engineer Trevor Kilvington unpack the NX supply chain attacks – how they unfolded, why they were so scary, and what every IT team can learn from them. This episode's special guest: Trevor Kilvi...

This episode of SEEK Bytes steps away from code to celebrate one of SEEK’s most loved traditions: Hackathon. Will is joined by Kat, Andy and Glenn to lift the lid on how a twice-yearly, three-day event brings together people from every corner of SEEK to dream up bold ideas – many of which end up on real roadmaps and in front of real customers. In this episode you’ll learn: This episode of SEEK Byt...

An OpenAI-backed coding agent. 12 elite competitive programmers flown to Tokyo. A 10-hour marathon solving an NP-hard puzzle in front of a live stream. And a very sleep-deprived human still manages to beat the AI at its own game. In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott Millar, Will, Seamus and Arnav break down the World Tour Finals heuristic contest where a human edged out a custom AI built just fo...

This is a special SEEK Bytes drop – outside the regular Season 3 line-up – because the recent Axios NPM hack is too important to ignore. In this episode of SEEK Bytes the crew sit down with Eldar Marcussen from SEEK’s offensive security team to unpack what actually happened, why supply-chain attacks are so scary, and what you should do today to reduce your risk. In this episode you’ll learn: • Wha...

SEEK Bytes is back for Season 3 on 22 April, and we’re turning things up a notch with a major focus on AI of course. This season dives into the real world of working in tech today – from AI reshaping how we build and secure systems, to the culture, careers and decisions that make or break modern engineering teams. Whether you’re a seasoned developer, just starting out in IT, or simply curious abou...

Thinking about moving from hands-on coding to people leadership – or just wanting more control over your engineering career? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, we sit down with Gladys Lim, an Engineering Manager based in Kuala Lumpar who leads squads in SEEK’s monetisation & insights domain, building products that keep hirers coming back This episode's special guest: Gladys Lim (SEEK Engineering Manag...

Heard of “clean architecture” but not sure what it looks like in real code? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Seamus, Will and Adam Kreidels (Head of Engineering, Monetisation & Insights at SEEK) are back for Part 2 of their deep dive – unpacking entities, use cases, gateways, the dependency rule and the famous “onion” diagram in a way any IT pro can apply. This episode's special guest: Adam Kreitals...

Ever wondered what a technical product manager actually does – and why every modern tech org seems to want one? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Will is joined by Leon Belobrov and Alex Stewart-James to unpack how SEEK builds platform products that power everything from candidate apps to internal tooling – and what it means to be a PM for APIs instead of UIs. This episode's special guests: Leon Belo...

What happens when a 15-year-old hacker quietly discovers a single bug that touches over half of the Fortune 500, chains it into a Slack takeover, and walks away with $50K in bug bounties – only for the original vendor to refuse to pay? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, we break down Daniel’s Zendesk exploit, the ethics of disclosure, and what “white hat” really means in practice. We unpack how a “bas...

What if your next big career move in tech wasn’t into management or staff engineering – but into technical product management? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Will continues the conversation with Leon Belobrov and Alex Stewart-James in Part 2 of our deep dive into technical PMs, platform teams and how engineers can shape the roadmap (and their careers). This episode's special guests: Leon Belobrov...

Ever wondered what a technical product manager actually does – and why every modern tech org seems to want one? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Will is joined by Leon Belobrov and Alex Stewart-James to unpack how SEEK builds platform products that power everything from candidate apps to internal tooling – and what it means to be a PM for APIs instead of UIs. This episode's special guests: Leon Belo...

AI-generated voices, fake bosses on Zoom, SIM-swapped phones and a casino shut down from a single service-desk call – this is what modern cybercrime really looks like. In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott Millar, Will and security influencer Kelsey Lundgren return for Part 2 to dig into the latest social-engineering threats, AI-powered scams and why shame keeps attacks hidden. This episode's spe...

Think your biggest security risks are zero-days and fancy exploits? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott, Will and criminologist-turned-security-influencer Kelsy Luengen unpack why humans – not tech – are still the easiest way into your systems, and how SEEK is using crime theory, data and even Dungeons & Dragons-style games to fight back. This episode's special guest: Kelsy Luengen (SEEK Securi...

An airline cockpit access system vulnerable to a single quote in a login box. White-hat hackers quietly holding an entire flight database. And tech interviews that feel more like interrogations than conversations. In this SEEK Bytes episode, the crew dig deeper into real-world security failures and then we pivot into raw, honest engineering interview horror stories and practical tips for staying h...

How do you run dozens of React apps, keep dependencies sane, preview any branch on any environment – and still move fast without breaking prod? In Part 2 of our frontend deep dive, Elliott Millar, Will and Jared Hope (Engineering Manager, Frontend Practices at SEEK) go beyond components to explore platforms, tooling and practices that power SEEK’s web experience at scale. This episode's special gu...

Frontend is “just HTML and CSS”, right? Not at SEEK. In this episode of SEEK Bytes – a podcast by engineers for engineers – we sit down with Jarrod Hope, Engineering Manager for Frontend Practices, to explore how SEEK builds UIs at scale with React, Braid, SKU, Vanilla Extract and Playroom, and why good frontends are genuinely hard, high-impact engineering problems. This episode's special guest: J...