How BlaBlaCar Leveraged ML to Select Rides to Display & Generated 100k Monthly Extra Bookings! | Enginears Podcast

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.00:31 - Who are monday and what is their mission?02:35 - Who is Chen and how did he join monday?04:22 - What is monday’s developer platform?06:55 - Where do the problems that monday solve, begin?07:56 - What is MondayDB?13:08 - What is the tech stack at monday and why has it been chosen?16:49 - What challenges do you face with MondayDB?21:38 - What is the engineering culture at monday like?26:19 - What are the plans for 2024 and beyond?30:17 - What is your interview process, what mindset are you looking for in engineers and what has growth been like?35:45 - What are the top 3 engineering characteristics that you need in today’s market?40:58 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:30 - Rok Intro.03:30 - The evolution of TomTom.05:26 - What is map visualisation?07:07 - Thinking behind why it is Open Source (industry driven)?08:49 - What is the plan with the Open Sourcing mapping data?10:26 - What do the teams on map visualisation do?13:33 - The key critical engineering challenges in the map visualisation unit?15:33 - What is the process of taking the geospatial data to create map visuals?18:03 - Comparing the size of data.19:35 - How are TomTom process, cleaning and utilsing the data?22:24 - What tools & technologies are used and why?26:55 - Will C++ continue to be used?28:30 - The introduction of Rust language.30:05 - TomTom's organisation layout (team wise) and their day-to-day.32:57 - Growth plans at TomTom.34:42 - Use case of Booking.com utilising TomTom.36:56 - Closing statements by Elliot.38:35 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:05 - Rebecca Greene Intro.03:04 - Regal.io Intro.05:00 - How AI is incorporated into Regal.io?07:30 - How Regal.io is cleansing and processing the mass amounts of data?10:35 - Achieving +3.5M positive ROI's per month.13:38 - The Vision of Regal.io.16:23 - The engineering challenges amongst Regal.io.19:58 - Why is it hard to monetise AI that sits on top of LLM's?24:20 - What are Regal.io's growth plans?26:40 - Top 3 characteristics that are important in a Software Engineer?31:43 - Elliot closing statement.32:50 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:05 - Intro to Fabio.05:54 - Who are BlaBlaCar?09:30 - How have BlaBlaCar grown geographically?11:09 - How does the ML platform work at BlaBlaCar?18:14 - When does the journey of collecting data start?21:47 - Can you explain the concept of ABC and can you give a use case?26:11 - Is the data you analyse segmented?31:32 - Are there any situations where you communicate directly to customers to understand decision making?34:12 - What advice do you have for people running ML algorithms in production as well as dos and don’ts?36:44 - What can we expect from BlaBlaCar in 2024?39:20 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:29 - Intro into Jonathan and career dissection.18:44 - What are 3 takeaways from your experience at Twitch?26:09 - What is frugality and how can it be applied to engineering?32:56 - Did you have an opportunity to work closely with Jeff Bezos and what was that like?36:45 - What was it like to be involved in an acquisition of this magnitude?41:48 - What does 'complex systems are made up by simple systems' actually mean?50:14 - Who needs to introduce value engineering into an organisation and what does it look like?53:41 - What does the journey of losing look like?01:03:33 - What does Jonathan do now?01:08:20 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:03 - Intro into Vojtech and the Czech Republic engineering boom.02:40 - What sells Deepnote?05:30 - What makes Deepnote’s product innovative?10:35 - How does being customer centric and having an open communication channel work at Deepnote?13:52 - What technologies are Deepnote using and why?17:55 - What is it like running arbitrary code on the cloud?19:55 - What systems and process do you have in place to protect the cloud?23:10 - Was there a point where Deepnote realised that arbitrary code could be a threat to its platform?25:38 - What does building an autonomous AI model look like?29:09 - Has autonomous AI improved team morale at Deepnote?32:21 - Are you using AI in your day-to-day life?34:24 - What are Deepnote’s plans for the rest of 2024?37:23 - Where are Deepnote hiring and what skills are they looking for?40:32 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.02:26 - Who are RO?07:33 - What is digital accessibility?08:43 - What is the process that a company or individual can take to make digital accessibility more accessible?11:24 - Has the idea of accessibility changed the way you think about engineering?13:25 - Are these new concepts?14:39 - Do you think AI will change the game in terms of accessibility?17:14 - What are 3 things you would encourage new leaders to do in order to integrate accessibility within your team?19:34 - What have you built at RO?21:18 - What are the top 3 characteristics a software engineer needs to be successful In the current market?27:38 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr All Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:35 - Who is Nick?06:30 - Who are Freestar and what do they do?12:07 - What product and engineering challenges do you face and what does a day at Freestar look like?18:07 - What automation features are used at Freestar?20:36 - What technologies and tools do you use at Freestar and why?23:58 - What are the challenges and powers of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)?29:32 - As a leader how do you acknowledge and resolve conflict?32:59 - Where is Freestar going next year as well as AdTech in general?38:46 - What are the top 3 characteristics a software engineer needs to be successful?46:55 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:25 - Who is Tyler and what is his background?06:35 - What do Catawiki do?12:45 - How tough is objective 1 to reach for a CTO?15:49 - What changes has Tyler brought to Catawiki and what impact has it had on the teams?28:53 - How does team communication work at Catawiki?31:42 - Does your approach change within different guilds or teams?34:48 - What are the differences in team structures between European and US Engineering?38:37 - Have you noticed any differences between how companies in the US are built compared to Europe?42:37 - Do you notice any differences in foundational software engineering between Europe and USA?44:10 - What are Catawiki’s plans for this year?48:19 - Enginears Outro.https://catawiki.careers/vacanciesTwitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:10 - Intro in Azeem & Attune.04:05 - Commercial mindset software engineers are adopting - why?06:15 - How customers interact with Attune?09:10 - Is Attune industry-wide?09:57 - What challenges are Attune tackling and solving?13:27 - How Machine Learning Models & AI have impacted Attune?15:35 - What is a Software Wrapper?16:27 - What was the turning point in Attune that helped utilise AI?19:15 - How Attune index on developer productivity?24:25 - How hiring & company culture alters productivity.25:50 - Attune's value of 'Failure is Tuition'.26:38 - What is Attune's backdrop story and relationship with Coalition?32:04 - What is Attune's plan for 2024?34:06 - What does Azeem think are the top 3 characteristics a software engineer requires in this current climate to thrive?37:45 - Learning and developing communication skills through different mediums.39:01 - Enginears Outro.Twitter: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.