Enginears

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...

We’re exploring the journey of a travel meltdown in March and April of this year and how Loveholidays move their contact services to Twilio and re-invent the customer experience. Plus a general overview of exploring the business a bit more. "We're the biggest travel company you've never heard of!" What did we discuss? Two-sided marketplace. Similar team structure. Matrix organisation of "what" and...

Welcome back to Enginears! We're super excited for you to listen to our chat with Armando Vieira from Hazy. What did we discuss? What is synthetic data? What variables of data are you looking at and what’s their relationship? How do you model this data? How do you measure the quality and utility of synthetic data? How can you help banks/fintechs innovate faster? What does this actually mean? Prefe...

This week, we're delighted to have sat down with Julien from ZOE. What did we discuss?  Who are ZOE? What’s the mission? COVID symptom case study. Walking us through DNA analysis to ML to building products and apps for millions of customers. Where do Science and Technology meet? Where should we expect to see your products? How do Data Science and Engineering meet at ZOE? What technical challenges...

In this episode, we were lucky enough to sit down with Tomás Sabat at Grakn Labs.    What did we talk about? Who are Grakn? Drug Discovery and Robotics – Tell us more?! Why is community and maintaining  “opensource at heart” so important to Grakn Labs? What challenges come with that? Knowledge Graphs – buzz or not? You call Grakn a knowledge graph, a knowledge base, and a database – is it all thre...

In this episode of the Enginears Podcast, we're thrilled to have sat down with Ian Fuller and Luke Smith from Freetrade. What did we discuss? Simplifying event-sourcing, why Freetrade event-source, breaking down use-cases for even-sourcing and streaming data, what it's like to be an engineer at Freetrade, values of the Freetrade engineering team and SRE, Observability and monitoring to coming to t...

We're delighted to be joined by Bob Gregory from Cazoo once again! What did we discuss? One year on with Cazoo. Numerous investment rounds meant Cazoo reached £1Billion+ valuation and the first UK company to achieve this. In October 2019, Bob talked us through Cazoo’s model and what they were looking to do. In October 2020, sitting at home during a pandemic we checked to see what’s happened in a y...

In this episode, we're excited to share our chat with Neil Johnson at Element.  What did we discuss? Who Element/Matrix are, why are they open-source, and what it means, what's their mission, how are they built, and an interesting chat about Twitter!    Want to see more? Check out:  Gitter design session: https://bit.ly/35Gylfk  Social Dilemma panel with Amandine: https://bit.ly/35zGodU    If you'...