The Live Series Podcast

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Andrea Perizzato, VP of Engineering at FINN. Andrea brings a wealth of experience to this episode and shares his insight into various hiring processes, what to ask in an interview, how to ask it as well as red and green flags in candidates. In this episode, the pair discuss: 🙏 Having the right attitude in an interview 🚩 Find...

How To Navigate Your Career In Times Of Uncertainty In this latest episode of The Live Series, Jamie Crowley hosts a roundtable with industry leaders: Gustaw Fit - Engineering Manager @ Zoopla Iris Winter – Engineering Manager @ xDesign Ravin Patel – Tech Lead @ GetGround Links Mentioned: https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/index.htm https://www.gov.uk/government/organis... https://www.crunchbase.com/orga...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Carlos Rosao, Director of Engineering at NewStore. Carlos brings a wealth of experience to this episode and shares his insight nurturing and managing your tech team efficiently.  In this episode, the pair discuss: 🤔 What does an efficiently structured team look like? 🤝 Setting standards  🚀 Setting standards in int...

How To Maintain Efficiency While Growing & Scaling In this latest episode of The Live Series, Shaun Connor hosts a roundtable with industry leaders: Duarte Madueño - Engineering Lead @ Comma Robert Bergs - Vice President of Engineering at Xelix Armenak Mayalian - CTO & Cofounder at TOGGLE Amicus Recruitment connects global organisations with the best Python, Golang & JavaScript profess...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Hema Ramaswamy, Senior VP Engineering over at Tracer.   Hema brings a wealth of experience to this episode and shares her insight into being genuinely passionate about the individuals in her team.    In this episode, the pair discuss:   🤔 What does a people-first approach look like?  🤝 Getting To Kno...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Colm Ginty, Data Engineer at 6point6.   Colm has 5 years experience working with technologies such as Spark, Scala, Docker, Kafka and Hive. His experience managing and mentoring developers gives his insight an edge not many leaders have, making for a fascinating episode!   In this episode, the pair discuss:  👀...

How do you maintain work/life balance whilst delivering high pressure projects? In this latest episode of The Live Series, Jamie Crowley hosts a roundtable with Austin, Texas based industry leaders: Serdar Mustafa – Freelance Software Engineer Ana-Maria Pasparan – Software Engineering Manager @ Vodaphone David Maidment – Head of Engineering @ PremFina Amicus Recruitment connects global organisatio...

Leadership amongst different characters, at different seniority levels and from different cultures. In this latest episode of The Live Series, Jordan Hayward hosts a roundtable with Austin, Texas based industry leaders: Hema Ramaswamy – Senior Vice President of Engineering @ Tracer Esther Rashce – Senior Engineering Manager @ Valon Chris Cantu – Director of Engineering @ Babylon Jaya Zenchenko – S...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Jarryd Trokis, Engineering Manager at Monzo.  His experience as a leader at Monzo reflects his humility and compassionate style of managing tech teams as well as his fierce knowledge in approaching and navigating building trust within successful teams.   In this episode, the pair discuss:   ✔ Ensuring Your Tech...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Jan Capps, VP Engineering at Alegion. Her experience as a leader, agile coach, software developer, and quality assurance engineer combined with industry experience in retail, fintech, big data, cloud and virtualization management, data warehousing, VoIP, telecom and Content Management helps her tackle the most challenging soft...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Alix Keller, Product Technology Leader over at Liquality. Alix is a former Molecular Biologist and holds over 25 years of experience in the industry who has shipped over 100 pieces of software, firmware, and hardware across verticals including gaming, mobile applications, and enterprise applications - from the dotcom era to th...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Jonathan Zaleski, VP of Engineering over at ibble in Austin, TX. He's a highly skilled, versatile technical leader with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. He's also skilled in software development, scalability and agile methodologies and has experience working at big name brands like Wayfair where he w...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Jannik Schmiedl, Co-Founder & CTO over at Staking Rewards. Jannik Co-Founded Staking Rewards with his brother Mirko (Forbes 30 Under 30) and is CTO of the rapidly growing tech team. Staking Rewards is the leading data aggregator & research platform for yield-generating digital assets In this episode, the pair discuss:&...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather is joined by Alex Fox, CTO over at Secret Spa. Alex began his career as a software engineer and has created award-winning apps that have had over 100k downloads. He’s also received accolades from popular tech sites TechCrunch, TechRadar, AskAudio and Mashable. In this episode, the pair discuss: ✔ Managing & Encouraging Growth 🎓 Encoura...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather welcomes Mike Arpaia. Mike is a Computer Scientist and Partner at Venture Capital firm Moonfire Ventures. Mike boasts a wealth of experience managing tech teams at prestigious tech companies including Facebook and Esty. He shares his fascinating insight with Heather in this particularly interesting episode. In this episode, the pair discuss...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Cristian Bell, Head of Engineering & Product over at Journeyman in Berlin. Cristian holds a Master’s in Computer Science and has experience as a Team Lead and Scrum Master. He’s an agile leader with a record of empowering and mentoring cross-functional teams building high-value products. In this episode, the pair discuss:...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather welcomes Sabine Kaiser. Sabine is the Engineering Manager at Berlin-based organisation Choco. Sabine boasts a wealth of experience managing tech teams and shares her fascinating insight into tech for good and powering sustainability with tech. Sabine has a passion for transforming and analysing data to extract and present information in a w...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Adi Topaz, VP of Engineering over at Banked. Adi boasts a wealth of experience having climbed the ladder from Team Leader, Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager and VP Engineering. In this episode, the pair discuss: ✔ Leading a tech team within a start-up vs larger organisations 💪 Diversity & equality in tech 📢 E...

Is your Interview Process Effective, Adaptive & Streamlined Enough in Today’s Current Market? In this latest episode of The Live Series, Jordan Hayward hosts a roundtable with Austin, Texas based industry leaders: - Sabeen Syed – Director of Engineering @ HashiCorp - Arik Yelovitch – Director of Engineering @ Update - Carl Shaulis – Director of Engineering @ ZenBusiness - Jonathan Zaleski – Di...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather welcomes Sergi Baños Lara. Sergi is the CTO at insuretech giant WeFox. Sergi is in charge of a 150 strong, remote-first tech team based all over the world. We're super exited to have Sergi - who was also named in Forbes 30 under 30 - on the show. In this episode, the pair discuss: 🚀 Sergi's journey from intern to CTO in just 7 years ✔ Plan...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather was joined by Aniela Crisan, Director of Engineering at OLX Group. Aniela helps scale up the business through technology. Her role is to make sure that her team delivers impact and that it builds products that customers love. Aniela is passionate about scaling and transforming the technical stack, making the teams more autonomous and effici...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Heather welcomes Inacio Schweller. Inacio is the Engineering Manager at one of Berlin's biggest Fintech firms, Nuri.  Inacio has been in charge of tech teams all over the world including in the Bay area of the US and Europe. Despite not coming from a computer science background, he has a wealth of experience which he shares on the show. In thi...

How To Retain Your Best Technical Talent 0:00 – Introductions 04:00 – Why Do People Leave in the First Place? 09:10 – Nurturing & Managing Different Working Styles 13:35 – Keeping an Open Door Policy 22:08 – Getting Your Team to Believe in the Product 28:28 – Initiating Dedicated L&D Time 45:13 – Managing Salary Expectations 48:19 – Inclusion & Diversity Engagement In this latest episo...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast Dave is joined by Ivan Kalev, the Head of Engineering at Plantix in Berlin. Ivan has been involved in building and scaling software engineering systems & teams for the last 15 years. He has a wealth of software engineering, architecture and leadership experience across a variety of different sectors & has been fortunate to work with some of...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Dave was delighted to be joined by Divya Bokaria who’s the Head of Data & Analytics at Zattoo!  Divya has been involved in data and software engineering for the past 10 years and has grown into her current role where she leads a team of Data Engineers, BI/Product Analysts & Data Scientists in Berlin. She had some really inspiring and f...