TechTak Real Stories Behind Tech Careers

Ahmed Hafez Zayed is a Senior Android Developer at SumUp. In this episode Ahmed talked about his career path since his studies. He shared valuable advice that he has learned from his different experiences and from the challenges he had encountered that helped him to grow. Listen to the full episode to learn more about his inspiring journey! ----more---- 00:00 - Introduction 02:14 - How he got into...

Anna is a scientist and she changed her career path to become a Backend Software Developer. She has an inspiring journey! Listen to the full episode and learn about her journey! ----more----   00:00 - Introduction 01:33 - How she got into programming 04:00 - How she applied for her first job and the challenges she had faced 10:21 - How did she stay motivated as a self-taught programmer 11:28 - Abo...

Wiem is a Software Engineer at LiveIntent and the host of Tech✨Tak Podcast. In this episode Wiem shared about her journey during her studies and her first job in Tunisia. She talked about the different challenges she had faced and how she progressed into her career and moved to Paris then to Germany. She talked also about her experience when she was an active contributor in the Scala open source...

Fabian is a Chapter Lead and a Software Developer at MOIA in Hamburg, Germany. In this episode Fabian talked about his career path since his studies. He shared about his experience on machine learning and operations research and how he made his choices. Fabian shared some tips to make a good impression in a job interview and many valuable advice from his experience.  Listen to the full episode to...

In this episode Ata Mrktchyan, a "Universe Engineer" at LiveIntent, talks about her journey, sharing about her studies and her different jobs as QA Engineer and Software Engineer using different programming languages. She tells about how challenging herself and being curious helped her grow and chase her dreams, sharing valuable lessons and advice to everyone starting their journey. Listen to the...

Jonathan Winandy is a Data Engineer and a director at Univalence. In this episode, Jonathan shared about his journey during his studies and work, and how he followed the Data Engineering path. He tried to work in different positions and he faced challenges that helped him grow. He pointed out how much is important to ask questions and he shared advice from his experiences.   To learn more about th...

Calvin Chang is an iOS software engineer at Trade Republic. In this episode Calvin shared about how he started his journey and how he chose his path, he talked about his different learning experiences during his career and he shared some advice that he has learned from his experiences.   To learn more about the inspiring journey of Calvin Chang. Listen to the full episode! ----more---- 00:00 - Int...

Zamina is a Product Manager and a Founder of shades&contrast. In this episode Zamina shared about her career path and her different experiences working in Tech. She talked about the challenges that she had faced and how she decided to build her own company and to combine her passion and her profession. She also talked about the mission of her company that brings value for everyone and about the im...

Chamsddine is a Front-end Developer at Claimsforce,  Chams got passionate about computers and programming since he was a kid, and he started working in different projects when he was 13, at University he took accounting as a major, but he was continuing his IT projects then he decided to choose IT as a career path even after he graduated in a different speciality. He got to work in different Tech...

Jorge is a software engineer at Scalac, mostly focused on the backend. He's had the chance to work with several technologies and programming languages across different industries, such as Telco, AdTech, Streaming and Online Education. Also, he loves Functional Programming, especially in Scala. In this episode Jorge shared about his journey during his career path since his studies. He studied Telec...

Nodar is a Full Stack Software Engineer at Freiheit.com During High school Nodar studied Mathematics as a major. When he was 15, he got interested in programming and he joined some competitive programming 'olympiad' in high school, this inspired him to continue on IT direction and he decided to study Computer Science at university. Nodar shared some of his learning experiences, about the Full Stac...

Ibtihel Fekih is a software engineer with 7 years of experience in IT and currently she is an entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of Kbayroun.  This episode is a summary in English of the previous tunisian discussion with Ibtihel. Ibtihel shared about her different learning experiences and some advice and inspirational stories that she went through during her journey.  ----more---- 00:00 - In...

Ibtihel Fekih is a software engineer with 7 years of experience in IT and currently she is an entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of Kbayroun.  She's active in social media and she is an inspiration to many Tunisians. This episode is exceptional, Ibtihel and I talked in Tunisian Dialect,  so we could make it accessible to the Tunisian audience to learn more about her journey duing studies and...

Kit is a Scala programmer and a teacher at Ziverge. In his free time, he contributes to Open Source software and bangs chaotically on his piano. In this episode, Kit talked about his journey during his studies and about his career path. He shared about his learning experiences during his inspiring journey.   To learn more listen to full episode. ----more---- Notes: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:03:16...

Amany is a Data Engineer. In this episode Amany shared about her journey during her studies and her career in Tech. She talked about the different obstacles that she had faced and how it is important to choose a healthy working environment. She shared a very important message. I hope that the story of Amany will help to raise awareness about diversity and inclusion in Tech.   Listen to the full ep...

Adam Fraser is a solutions architect. He is one of the top contributors to ZIO, a library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in functional Scala. Adam is the co-author of the ZIO Test and the author of ZIO Query. He is a conference speaker, writer, and mentor to other software developers regarding functional programming. In this episode Adam talked about how he changed his career path fro...

Nivi is a Full Stack Developer.   She studied Management Science then she decided to start a new journey in a different direction to explore other opportunities until she found her way into programming. She learned programming from the available resources on the Internet and she worked on projects to make progress faster, then she started her career working in Tech companies.   Listen to the full...

Justin found his way into Scala and Software Tooling Development after a long path as a student of computer science and computational linguistics. Today he works on the Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA to improve integration of build tools and different teams across organizations. He is a Software Engineer and a Customer Success Engineer. In this episode Justin shared about his experience during his...

Mouna is a Software Engineer. She works as a Mobile Developer in Dubai. In this episode Mouna shared about her experience studying and working in Tunisia, I studied with Mouna, we talked about our experience when we chose to study Computer Science even it was a new option in Tunisia during that time and the future wasn't clear for us. Mouna shared about her career journey in Dubai including the ch...

Ayoub is a Data Engineer Freelancer and part-time Teacher at Paris 12 University. He holds a Master's Degree in Distributed Systems, interested in both Functional Programming and Distributed Systems including Blockchain technologies.   In this episode, Ayoub talked about his experience during his studies and working in Tech and about the support of his mother during his jouney and how much that wa...

Ujali is a Software Engineer at Liveintent.  Ujali shared about her experience studying and working in India, and about her career journey in Dubai and Germany. She shared about some challenges that she had faced and the different opportunities that she got. She shared some advice and suggestions that helped her personally to progress in her career and her life. We talked about why there are less...

Daniel is a software engineer and the founder of Rock the JVM, the online training resource on Scala, functional programming and everything in the Scala ecosystem. He's taught more than 42000 engineers and personally trained high-performing teams at Adobe, Apple, Orange and other companies in the US and Europe. He also teaches kids to code, and has reached 22000 kids in 150 countries. Before divin...

Merlin got into Computer Science because computers told him that he should study Computer Science. During his Bachelor and Master studies, he worked for many different companies in different fields using various programming languages. His drive towards optimization brought him to functional programming and eventually got him into working on a PhD thesis in Theoretical Computer Science. He organize...

Roksolana works as a Big Data Engineer at Captify. She is a speaker at technical conferences and meetups, one of the Women Who Code Kyiv leads.  She is passionate about Big Data, Scala, and Kubernetes and she always loves to learn something new. In this episode Roksolana talked about her journey , her learning experience and about some challenges that she has encountered during her studies and wor...

Omar studied for a Social Sciences degree before he discovered his passion about computers. He had a part-time job in a lab during his studies, where he learned a lot. He then decided to continue in that direction. Attending trainings and workshops, joining a community and participating to teach about different systems and automation, Omar is now a System Engineer at Xing in Germany.   Xing profil...