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London Tech Insider
by Neil Gibbons
A show that shines a light on the tech community in London.
Episodes
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#22 Sean Nolan: Blink, the Frontline App
Blink is a fast-growing startup, founded here in London, and is focused on creating software for companies with a large ‘frontline’ workforce. A frontline worker is essentially one without a desk, so Blink’s end users can be quite diverse, from tree surgeons to bus drivers or from hospital staff…
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#21 Dimitrios Kofodimos: Nutmeg and the UK Robo-Advisor Market
In this episode, I spoke to Dimitrios Kofodimos, VP of Growth at Nutmeg. Nutmeg is a key player in the competitive UK online investment management market. We start the episode by outlining exactly what Nutmeg does and understanding the different parts of the service offered by the company. We…
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#20 John Spindler: Early-Stage Startup Investing
This week, I speak to John Spindler. He is the CEO of Capital Enterprise, an organisation supporting start-ups in the UK. He is also a seed investor, funding technology companies while they’re in their infancy to help get them off the ground. In the interview we covered two main topics, an...
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#19 Alcor Academy: Socio-Technical Training for Software Teams
Today I speak to Marco Consolaro and Alex Di Gioia. Together, they run training courses for software engineers as part of their company, Alcor Academy. They are highly experienced software engineers themselves, each of them having around 20 years of experience in the industry. In this time, they...
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#18 Katja Mordaunt: the Code Reading Club
This week I speak to Katja Mordaunt. In her day to day work, she is a freelance web developer, but for today’s episode, we focus on her work starting the Code Reading Club. The club is based on the idea that surprisingly little attention is given to teach developers how to properly read and...
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#17 Daniel Terhorst-North: how to get the most out of software teams
This week, I speak to Daniel Terhorst-North. He has had a long career in the world of software and is the source of many influential ideas in this field. For example, a popular process of work for software teams, known as Behaviour-Driven Development, was his brain-child. He is also a regular...
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#16 Tom Christie: creating the Django Rest Framework and funding open-source projects
This week I speak to Tom Christie. He is the creator of the Django Rest Framework, a tool which helps software developers write web APIs. The project is extremely popular, with over 1000 individual contributors and 300,000 users. We spend the first part of the episode discussing DRF - it was…
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#15 Neil Campbell: Introduction to the Growth Manager Role
This week I speak to Neil Campbell about the growth manager role that’s becoming more and more popular in the tech industry. In this position, managers have a deep understanding of both the product and marketing sides of the business, leading to a unique perspective where they understand deeply...
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#14 Tristan Palmer: Elemendar and AI in the Cybersecurity Industry
Today, I speak to Tristan Palmer, Head of Growth at Elemendar. Elemendar is a technology company which uses machine learning to automate common tasks faced by analysts in the cybersecurity industry. Specifically, they have created a piece of software called R.E.A.D., pronounced "read", which…
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#13 Jon Gould: A Unique Approach to Tech Recruitment
This week I speak to Jon Gould. He has 14 years of experience as a tech recruiter and in this time he has developed quite a unique approach to his job in a number of ways. For example, he is deeply embedded in the Python and Django community in the UK, playing an important role in organising a...
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#12 Alex Luketa: Founding Xerini, a Software Consulting Company
This week I speak to Alex Luketa. He is the CTO at Xerini, a software consultancy which he co-founded in 2018. Alex worked for many years as a developer, mostly working in the financial sector. We talk about how Xerini was started and what separates it from other software consulting companies, as...
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#11 Bob Gregory: Architecture Patterns with Python
https://www.cosmicpython.com/ Today I speak to Bob Gregory. He currently works as Engineering Coach at Cazoo. This is a fast growing technology company which aims to transform the way we buy secondhand cars. Previously, Bob also held the position of Chief Architect at the company. Bob wrote the...
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#10 The Jump: Inside a London Coding Bootcamp
In today's episode I speak to Robert, James and Katie from ‘The Jump’ which is a coding bootcamp based in London. The loose structure of this episode was to trace through a student experience of before, during and after the bootcamp. We covered topics like the type of backgrounds their students...
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#9 Gisela Rossi: Recognising the Contributions of Junior Developers
This week’s episode is the second part of a conversation that I had with Gisela Rossi a few weeks ago. In the first part, we discussed her work as an Engineering Lead at a tech scale-up called Pollen. This was episode 6 of the podcast, if you want to go back and have a listen. However, in this...
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#8 Felienne Hermans: The Programmer's Brain
Today I speak to Felienne Hermans. She’s an assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Now, Felienne has no particular link to London, which is a bit of a problem, since this is the London Tech Insider podcast. However, her...
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#7 Francis Irving: Internet Decentralisation
This episode is another part of a conversation I had with Francis Irving. This time, we discuss “Redecentralize”, an organisation Francis co-founded which runs several journalistic projects to promote the decentralisation of the internet. In recent years, control of the internet has become more…
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#5 Francis Irving: the History of Version Control
In this episode I speak to Francis Irving about the history of version control. For those unfamiliar, version control is how developers manage and track changes to their code. It is absolutely essential in allowing teams of developers to work together productively. To introduce Francis, he is a...
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#4 Leonardo Giordani: DevOps Bootcamp and Clean Architectures in Python
Today I speak to Leo Giordani. He currently contracts as a DevOps Engineer, but also spends part of his working time developing a DevOps bootcamp course. We spend the first part of this podcast discussing this new course. There are many frontend, backend and fullstack bootcamp courses out there,...
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#3 Nicholas Tollervey: the BBC micro:bit project and learning to code
This week I speak to Nicholas Tollervey. He currently works as a freelance software developer and has also been active in open source projects, as a previous Google Open Source Peer Bonus winner. Before starting a career in tech, he trained at the Royal College of Music with Tuba as his first...
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#2 Anna Ossowski: managing open-source communities and giving back
In this episode, I speak to Anna Ossowski, who works at Github as a senior community program manager. She is extremely active in the London tech community, giving many public talks and as an organiser for pyladies London, to name just a couple of her activities! For a podcast which aims to…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A show that shines a light on the tech community in London.
HOSTED BY
Neil Gibbons
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