The Live Series Podcast

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Dave was joined by Igor Mazor who’s a Senior Manager of Software & Data Engineering at Deloitte Consulting. Igor has been involved in software engineering for the last 7 years, originally starting out as a data engineer after completing his master’s degree back in Israel. He then moved over to Berlin, where he’s had a number of different data e...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Dave joined by Raz Shuty who’s the Director of Engineering at Delivery Hero. Raz has a wealth of experience in technology, starting out as a software engineer back in Israel. He’s previously founded his own IT company and then moved over to Berlin where he’s had several tech leaderships positions from Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering &...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Dave spoke to Juha Ristolainen who is the new CTO of Upvest! Upvest are a Berlin based FinTech that enables platforms to offer digital securities to investors. Juha has a wealth of experience spanning 20 years in technology, starting out as a software engineer back in Helsinki and then progressing his career through to a CTO. Over the past few year...

In the latest episode of The Live Series Podcast, Dave had the pleasure of speaking to Marwa Ali Reda. Marwa is the Software Development Manager for Amazon Web Services in Berlin. Amazon Web Services provide a highly reliable & scalable infrastructure platform in the cloud to hundreds of thousands of business in 190 countries across the world! Marwa has been in software development her entire...

In episode three of The Live Series Podcast, Dave had the delight of speaking to Dipti Dhawan. Dipti is the VP of Engineering for omni:us. Omni:us are a SaaS provider for the claims management sector, transforming the way insurers interact with insured parties. Dipti has been involved in software engineering all her life, from being young and having family connections, through to graduating in Com...

In this episode of The Live Series Podcast, Dave was joined by Lev Leontiev. Lev is the Engineering Manager for Cision, a global leading provider of earned media management software provider. Lev has had a career in software development now for over 15 years and currently heads up the engineering team in Berlin, managing several developers. In this episode we discuss the following topics: 🚀 How h...

In the first episode of The Live Series Podcast, Dave had the pleasure of speaking to Paolo Dente. Paolo is the CTO for SpaceBase, an international software provider of meeting room and workshop space across the globe. Paolo has a career spanning over 15 years in tech. He progressed from a developer right through to a CTO where he now leads a team of backend and frontend engineers. In this episode...

In our latest Round Table event as part of The Live Series, we had an in-depth conversation with some of London’s most experienced technical leaders about some of the issues they came across when trying to scale the team. Topics we covered include: - How big is the team that you manage now & how is it structured? - How have you found hiring to be over the last year & how did that change be...

2020 has been a very difficult year for us all and not one we would have anticipated. In this session, we look to understand the pressures and challenges that leaders from young start-ups within the industry have faced over the past 5 months, how they have overcome those challenges, how they adapted to the current climate, what strategic changes had to be made (if any), how they are now looking to...

The Live Series are our live events designed to continue our vision of connecting the tech community for you to share ideas, build knowledge and meet new friends. All of our events are relaxed, informal, social experiences, geared to bring people together. By doing this, we believe that by we can add value to tech professionals who want to develop their own skillset and for tech leaders who want t...

Hosts: Jordan Hayward & Mika Bostrom (VP of Engineering @ Smarkets) Attendees: Mika Bostrom (VP of Engineering @ Smarkets) Kevin Goldsmith (ex CTO of Onfido) Jon Thomas (Senior Engineering Manager @ Deliveroo) Sachin Saxena (ex VP of Engineering @ Rocket Lawyer) Hansel Dunlop (Senior Engineering Director @ Touch Surgery) Summary: Specifying or changing development processes can be like forcing...