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Tech Careers Hotline
by Tech Council of Australia
Tech Careers Hotline is a podcast for anyone curious about a career in tech. We put real questions from students and mid-career professionals directly to leaders across Australia — and let them share the unfiltered truth about building a career in one of the fastest-growing industries.
Episodes
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Her 500-person tech team builds for Canva’s 260M users | Jade Loyzaga, Senior Engineering Director
Jade Loyzaga is a Senior Engineering Director at Canva, where she leads a 500-person tech team across content discovery and AI. She studied computer science and fine arts, then worked as a software engineer and tech lead at Twitter in the US before moving home to Australia to join Canva. Jade...
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From Musician to Building AI That Catches Crime | Sarah Bradley, Director Data Science & AI, Nasdaq
Sarah Bradley is Director of Data Science & AI at Nasdaq, where she leads the AI and machine learning behind the platform's market surveillance technology, used by exchanges and regulators worldwide to catch financial crime. Before that, she was a classically trained musician who performed as a...
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She's One of Australia's Leading Voices on Ethical AI | Kara Bombell, EthicAi
Kara Bombell started her career as a documentary filmmaker, then spent fifteen years rising to COO inside major ad agencies before leaving it all to co-found Ethic AI. In this episode, she joins me to unpack why the businesses getting AI right aren't the ones moving fastest — they're the ones...
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She Helps Build Products That Resolve Nearly 5B Customer Issues A Year | Hannah Deveney, Zendesk
Hannah Deveney grew up in a house full of scientists, but a work experience placement with the robotics team at UNSW is what got her hooked on computers instead. Over 20 years later, after product roles in hospitality, travel, fashion, and a pandemic pivot at Local Measure. She's now Senior...
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She helped Atlassian crack the code on remote work | Emma Crockett, VP Atlassian
Emma Crockett dropped ballet and vet school dreams the moment a work experience placement had her setting up IT systems instead of treating animals, and she realised she liked that more. Twenty years later, including seven years as Senior Director of People Analytics at Meta, she joined Atlassian...
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She's One of Australia's Most Trusted Cyber Advisors | Shameela Gonzalez, Executive Director CyberCX
Shameela Gonzalez dropped maths the moment it was optional, majored in organisational psychology, and became one of Australia's most trusted cyber security advisors. She talks about what it actually feels like inside a cyber crisis, what she learned as chief of staff to some of Australia's most...
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She builds products used by 25M people with no tech degree | Mindy Eiermann, Culture Amp
Mindy Eiermann studied Asian studies, was heading to law school, and ended up VP of Product & Design at Culture Amp — without writing a single line of code. She talks about falling in love with the problem, why telling people what you want is the most underrated career move, and what she looks…
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She leads Google ANZ, 10 years after not getting the job | Mel Silva, VP & MD Google ANZ
In this episode Mel talks about making the leap from financial services into tech, backing yourself before you feel ready, and why the best no of her career turned out to be a breakthrough. She gets honest about self-doubt at the highest levels of leadership, what it actually looks like to put…
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She lived the problem then built a global solution | Jenny Rudd, Founder of Dispute Buddy
What if the worst moment of your life became the reason you built something that helped thousands of others? Jenny Rudd built a tech startup in her late 40s, with no engineering degree, from a small town in New Zealand. After spending 40 hours screenshotting texts for her own family court case…
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From junior analyst to fintech CEO | Soraya Alali, Zip ANZ CEO
Soraya Alali didn't have a career plan. She had curiosity and an obsession for the customer and it took her from junior analyst to ANZ CEO of one of Australia's biggest fintechs without a tech degree. In this episode, the Zip ANZ CEO shares the unfiltered truth about building a career without a...
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Former 'Australian of the Year' racing to win the global quantum computing race | Michelle Simmons
Episode: Michelle Simmons, Founder & CEO, Silicon Quantum Computing Michelle Simmons fell in love with physics at 12. Twenty-five years later, she's built Australia's first quantum computing company from Sydney — and in 2018 was named Australian of the Year. Her team built the world's first...
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She built a $100M robotics company at 25 | Grace Brown, Andromeda CEO & Co-Founder
Episode: Grace Brown, Co-Founder & CEO, Andromeda Robotics Grace Brown started building robots at 15. By 25, she is leading a $100 million company from Melbourne — creating Abi, the world's leading social companion robot for aged care that speaks 90 languages and remembers every resident she…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Tech Careers Hotline is a podcast for anyone curious about a career in tech. We put real questions from students and mid-career professionals directly to leaders across Australia — and let them share the unfiltered truth about building a career in one of the fastest-growing industries.
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Tech Council of Australia
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Tech Careers Hotline is a podcast for anyone curious about a career in tech. We put real questions from students and mid-career professionals directly to leaders across Australia — and let them share the unfiltered truth about building a career in one of the fastest-growing industries.
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