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Tech Journeys Podcast
by Vincent Uppelschoten
The Tech Journeys is a short-form interview podcast for people who've spent years building their careers in technology. Each episode, host Vincent Uppelschoten sits down with experienced tech professionals to hear their stories, the lessons they've picked up along the way, and what they'd do differently if they were starting over in an ever changing tech world. No fluff. Just honest conversations from people who've been in it.
Episodes
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Marc Mollins | Why a Tech Apprenticeship Beats University | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Marc Mollins left school 10 years ago to start a software apprenticeship, and today he is a senior consultant, lead Java backend engineer and team lead at CGI. In this episode he explains why he believes anyone skipping an apprenticeship in tech starts four years behind: university teaches best...
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Babatunde Adegbite | Designing AI Agents People Actually Trust | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Babatunde (Tunde) Adegbite is a senior software engineer at Constru, where he leads front-end architecture for AI-driven compliance and sustainability platforms. In this episode, Tunde talks through the project he's most proud of: a chat interface for an AI agent that drafts a plan, then stops…
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Massimo Berta | Solve the Business Problem Before Adding AI | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Massimo "Max" Berta is a senior account solution architect at Automat-it and spent seven years at AWS, where he supported healthcare and life science companies. He talks through his work with Phytoform, a crop genetics company using machine learning to grow a tomato without the spiky top leaves,...
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Mohammed Shahid | Migrating 150,000 Users to ServiceNow During a Pandemic | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Shahid is a lead product owner for ServiceNow at a large multinational. His career started in broadband customer support and moved through service management, digital workplace technology and e-signature rollouts. In this episode he walks you through a six-month programme that moved 150,000 users...
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Marcel Bindseil | Bringing WebAssembly to the IoT Edge at Microsoft | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Marcel Bindseil is a senior AI engineer at Microsoft in London, where he helps manufacturing and mobility customers build IoT solutions on cloud platforms. He grew up on the border between East and West Germany, planned to follow his father into engineering, and found programming hard at first...
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Chris Wilken | Turning a Retrenchment Letter Into a Consultancy | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Chris Wilken spent close to 30 years in enterprise tech, including many years working with Avaya across South Africa, before a retrenchment letter pushed him to start his own business. He founded Ukuvela Group in October 2023 and grew it from four founders to nearly ten employees, doubling…
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Mark Jones | From Microservices to Building an AI Memory System in Five Weeks | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Mark Jones runs Radical Geek Technology Solutions, a business he built with his wife that helps organizations adopt AI. He started in IT infrastructure, moved into software development, and became an early adopter of microservices long before most companies caught on. That pattern repeated with…
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Pitambar Jha | Why You Should Build Before You're Ready | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Pitambar Jha is a senior software engineer who moved from Nepal to London in 2021 and has just joined Vanguard after two and a half years at Item Group. In this episode, he talks about the project he's proudest of, a dynamic data grid plugin he built for Angular within a month of starting a new...
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James Levine | Leaving AWS to Build an AI Agency | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
James Levine left AWS after three and a half years as a software engineer, where he worked on using AI to cut open source bug and ticket backlogs from four digits down to single digits. He's now building an AI-focused software agency and raising a seed round, while also doing fractional...
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Rob Dickens | Using AI for Good and Staying a Builder | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Rob Dickens is a forward deployed AI engineer at Cloudera, where he spends four years moving from solution architect into a hands-on, customer-facing AI role. He talks about a recent project with a humanitarian aid organization, where his team built an AI workflow that cut research time for…
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Peter Ogilvie | From Blue Chip Mainframes to Agency Life | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Peter Ogilvie is a solution architect at Box UK, a multi disciplinary digital agency delivering everything from focused bespoke projects to large scale platforms for national and global clients, after more than 25 years across blue chip companies including IBM, NatWest, BT and A&P Pensions. He...
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Portia Kgotleng | Pattern Recognition, AI Tools, and the Consulting Question | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Portia Kgotleng is a Solution Architect at AWS, where she advises enterprise financial services customers on system design and ways of working. She traces her career path from production support through process engineering into solution architecture, driven by a natural interest in patterns and...
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Sumant Satpathy | From Nonprofit Salesforce Delivery to Chasing CTA | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Sumant Satpathy is a certified Salesforce architect working as a senior Salesforce developer at the LTA, with most of his career spent building on the Nonprofit Cloud platform for organizations like National Trust and Cancer Research UK. He talks about the project that changed his career path,...
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Charles Jackson | Building a Solar Tech Startup Next to a Full-Time Job | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Charles Jackson works full-time as a solution architect at a consultancy while building EcoIQX, a SaaS platform that helps solar installers manage projects from customer acquisition through the full delivery lifecycle. In this episode, Charles talks about why he'd choose computer science and...
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David Toozs-Hobson | 30 Years Building Trust-Based Security Deals | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
David Toozs-Hobson has spent over 30 years in cybersecurity, starting as one of CyberArk's first partners and later founding Global Secure Systems, a security VAR he grew to 65 people before selling it a decade ago. He now works as a Solution Architect at Computacenter, where he's building out…
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Omkar Uthale | 14 Years at One Company, Building AI Tools | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Omkar Uthale is an Enterprise Architect at Gorey Limited, a small UK consultancy where he has spent 14 years moving from SAP through Salesforce and integration work to full enterprise architecture. He talks about the manufacturing client that pushed him into architecture for the first time, the...
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Paddy Gilliland | Building Agentic AI Systems Before AI Existed | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Paddy Gilliland is a solution architect with 30 years in the ERP space, and he's spent the last two years going deep on AI. He walks through a workflow engine he built 15 to 20 years ago for a wealth management firm, a project that turned out to be agentic architecture before the term existed…
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Biswajit Roy | 18 Years Building Drupal and Acquia Expertise | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Biswajit Roy has spent 18 years building a career in Drupal and Acquia, working his way from junior software engineer to global center of excellence head for a major IT services company. He has delivered over a hundred web solutions for Fortune 500 clients across retail, media, pharmaceutical…
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Mohit Joshi | Domain Knowledge Over Code in the AI Era | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Mohit Joshi leads AI transformation and architecture at Ernst & Young, where he's worked for three and a half years after 21 years in tech. He talks about switching from a commerce degree into technology against the odds in India, and building his career from database work up to solution...
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Anthony Mashford | From Data Center Racks to Azure Expert | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Anthony Mashford is a Cloud Solution Architect at NetApp, focused on Microsoft Azure, with a career that started in the military and moved through on-premises data centers before he found Azure back in 2012. He talks about a recent migration project that saved a customer a seven-figure sum...
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Sam Strawbridge | Rebuilding Network Infrastructure for a Greener Future | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Sam Strawbridge is a product manager at ITS, a UK infrastructure builder and service provider that operates across multiple metro areas. In this episode, Sam walks through his proudest project: redesigning the layer 3 routing architecture for ITS's direct internet access service to cut hardware…
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Anand Kumar Veeramachineni | From PhD Scientist to AI Product Manager | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Anand Kumar Veeramachineni built his career in an unusual order. He earned a PhD in biotechnology from Monash University, spent years selling scientific databases to researchers, and now works as a senior product manager at Springer Nature, where he builds life science and experimental workflow...
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Yasmin Mohamud | Turning Illness Into a Mission for Digital Access | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Yasmin Mohamud is the founder of Kastan Mentoring, a self-funded initiative teaching digital skills to young people across Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti. After a career in the UN and a diagnosis of arthritis and lupus limited her mobility, she taught herself AI and machine learning from...
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Prakash Singh | Moving From Cloud Engineering Into Product Management | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Prakash Singh is a Product Manager at K2 Group, where he works with customers to identify problems and shape new product features. In this episode, Prakash traces his path from a junior product engineer role in India through an early bet on cloud infrastructure, and explains why that decision...
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Manoj Shah | Databricks, Data Culture, and Career Clarity | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Manoj Shah is a solution architect at The Law Society, where he's leading a Databricks implementation designed to centralize and clean up the organization's data. In this episode, he explains the medallion architecture behind the project and why fixing data quality matters more than ever with AI…
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Yudhistra Bhardwaj | Leading Stakeholders Through Saudi Arabia and AI Change | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Yudhistra Bhardwaj works as a Business Analyst and Product Owner at Capgemini, where he's spent five years managing stakeholders and gathering requirements across a range of client projects. In this episode, he talks through his seven months on the Aramco digital project in Saudi Arabia, and what...
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Aditya Keshari | Balancing Agile Delivery with Regulatory Deadlines | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Aditya Keshari is a Solution Architect at Vodafone, working on marketplace solutions for enterprise customers across thirteen markets. In this episode, he talks about delivering a major cloud project in Germany under strict workers' council regulations, and how prioritizing MVP requirements…
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Doug Hendry | How AI Turned Him Into an Executive | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Doug Hendry is a solution architect at Chameleon Creative, where he builds Salesforce solutions powered by AI. He started his career as a service engineer, then spent decades working with Oracle databases and Salesforce consulting before AI reshaped how he works day to day. Doug explains how AI…
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Ade Pycroft | Two Decades of Fiber Network Engineering | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Ade Pycroft is a senior telecommunications engineer and team leader at TXO, with nearly 12 years at the company (formerly Linx) and over two decades in the industry. Ade talks about leading a six-person team on a 20-month European fiber rollout that spanned Austria to Spain, and the customs delay...
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Laura Burrell | How AI Is Forcing a Data Center Redesign | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Laura Burrell is a data center infrastructure specialist at Hammer Distribution, where she moved from a product management role earlier this year after earning her Certified Data Center Professional qualification. She and Vincent talk through how AI has reshaped the data center world: rack power...
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Jaisal Surana | Closing the Digital Divide with Responsible AI | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
In this episode I speak with Jaisal Surana, AI thought leader, STEM advocate and AI solutions architect with 20 years in tech. Jaisal shares her journey from .NET developer to solution architect, and why giving back drives her work on AI risk frameworks, digital literacy and her co-authorship on…
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Deepankar Mathur | Building Secure AI Products While Running a Side Consultancy | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Deepankar Mathur is a product manager at Mapp Digital, where he transitioned from solutions architect by taking ownership of the mobile push and SDK domains long before the title arrived. Alongside his day job he runs Workrush, a side consultancy he started in 2021 that has delivered projects for...
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Tudor Stoicescu | Running a Compliant Side Consultancy While Employed | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Tudor Stoicescu is Staff Product Manager and Product Line Director for identity management at Entrust, where he handles compliance and audits across the EMEA region. He built his early product career in financial services, spotting a market gap that let him grow a compliance intelligence tool…
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Abhishek Mishra | From India to UK Data Architect at Flutter | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Abhishek Mishra is a Senior Solution Architect at PokerStars (part of Flutter Entertainment), based in Leeds. He moved from India to the UK in 2018 and has spent his career evolving from software engineer to solution architect, most recently leading a cloud migration that delivered ahead of...
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Andy Perry | From Hands-On Architect to Strategic Advisor | The Tech Journeys Podcasts
Andy Perry is a fractional CTO and solutions architect with over 15 years of freelancing experience across enterprise architecture, M&A integrations, and technology strategy. In this episode, Andy shares how he approaches large-scale system mergers using a simple discovery-first framework, and…
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From Developer to Strategist: How an MBA Shaped a Product Leader
Swaraj Verma is a product manager at Calnex Solutions, where he leads a portfolio of network and application assurance products. He started his career as a developer at Accenture, completed a Durham MBA in 2021, and has spent the past decade deliberately moving toward the strategic side of tech.…
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Arabella Bown | From Law to Product Leadership | The Consulting Launch Method Podcast
Arabella Bown is a lead product manager at Hyland, where she focuses on Alfresco's front-end governance and process portfolio. She started her career as a commercial lawyer before moving into tech without any formal IT background, building her way through legal technology startups and eventually...
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Tech Journeys Podcast with Stuart Milligan
Stuart Milligan is a solution architect and principal at Midrange Dynamics, a Swiss software company that specialises in DevOps tooling and integration for the IBM i platform. Stuart has been building software for complex legacy business applications since 1987. He co-created XAnalysis, a…
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Tech Journeys Podcast with Sushil Kumar
Sushil Kumar is a Solution Architect at Capgemini with 22 years in the telecom industry. He's worked across India, Israel, China, and the US before settling in the UK 11 years ago. His background spans 3G, WiMAX, IMS, cloud, and AI, with stints at companies including Huawei, Ericsson, IBM, Dell,...
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Tech Journeys Podcast with Sushil Kumar
Sushil Kumar is a Solution Architect at Capgemini with 22 years in the telecom industry. He's worked across India, Israel, China, and the US before settling in the UK 11 years ago. His background spans 3G, WiMAX, IMS, cloud, and AI, with stints at companies including Huawei, Ericsson, IBM, Dell,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Tech Journeys is a short-form interview podcast for people who've spent years building their careers in technology. Each episode, host Vincent Uppelschoten sits down with experienced tech professionals to hear their stories, the lessons they've picked up along the way, and what they'd do differently if they were starting over in an ever changing tech world. No fluff. Just honest conversations from people who've been in it.
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