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Episode 15: Working with Neurodiversity, with Chris Knight

March 29th, 2025  |  1 hr 35 mins

ai, neurodiversity, startup

Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence

Episode 14: DevOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering, with Dave McNeill

March 21st, 2025  |  1 hr 15 mins

devops, kubernetes, operations, platform engineering, sre, vault

We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup environment, opinions on golang and python, and so much more.

Episode 13: Scaled Agile processes and stories, with Raxit Ramani

March 14th, 2025  |  1 hr 12 mins

agile, kanban, management, safe, scaled agile, scrum, waterfall

We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past.

Episode 12: Engineering Management, with Director of Engineering Sam Jones

February 24th, 2025  |  1 hr 18 mins

engineering management

We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of the job.

Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital, with creative director Nikki Stearman

February 21st, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins

ai, design, games, kids

We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like.

Episode 10: Career Changes and Coding Bootcamps, with Chris Hunter

February 8th, 2025  |  1 hr 27 mins

career change, coding bootcamp

We discuss changing careers into tech from mechanical engineering, and what the process is like for coding bootcamps, and how valuable they are.

Episode 9: Contracting Insights, with Marie Wigmore

January 31st, 2025  |  1 hr 27 mins

ai, consulting, contracting, jira, news, start ups

Ever considered contracting? Been a contractor yourself? Or just wondered how it works? We've got the cream of the crop, Marie Wigmore, telling us about her storied career and giving some advice on contracting

Episode 8: Data Lakehouse and Data Mesh, with James Balloch

January 24th, 2025  |  1 hr 36 mins

big data, bigquery, data lakehouse, data mesh, interviews

We've got James Balloch on, talking about BigData, his first interview and job change after more than a decade at one company, his amazing commute, and all the interesting news.

Episode 7: Executive Strategy and Execution, with Georgia Smith

January 15th, 2025  |  1 hr 27 mins

care, consulting, disability, elderly, strategy

We meet with Georgia Smith, a consultant from Capgemini and formerly from Amazon, about new years resolutions, business strategy errors, consulting, disability and age care, and all the news

Episode 6: Recruitment, and starting a company, with Jean-Paul Ashby

December 20th, 2024  |  1 hr 40 mins

cv, interviews, news, recruitment, start-up

We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more

Episode 5: Data Center Repatriation, with Ian Reeves

December 13th, 2024  |  1 hr 17 mins

ai, data center, incidents, networking, news, saas

We talk to networking and cloud operations architect/engineer/enthusiast/wizard Ian Reeves, about Data Center Repatriation, and what's in the news

Episode 4: Technical Diagrams, and Breaking Prod Leaderboard

December 6th, 2024  |  1 hr 36 mins

We're talking diagrams, subscriptions, domain hoarding, incidents at work, not-so-news, and recommendations