Shailvi is a seasoned Data Leader and Self-Advocacy Expert with over seventeen years of experience building technology products. She has spoken at nearly 100 global conferences and Fortune 500 events, coached close to 500 individuals, and authored the best-selling book "Self-Advocacy." Her career includes notable roles at Salesforce, Fitbit, and as…

Vijay, Data Engineer at LiveIntent, shares insights from his diverse educational and professional journey. His experiences span studies in Bahrain and India, followed by a Master's in Business Analytics in the USA. Throughout his career, Vijay explored various roles and discovered a passion for Data Engineering and generative AI. Listen to the full…

Cristina is a Backend Scala Engineer at MOIA. She talked about her path during her studies and her career. Cristina worked in various positions until she found her passion for Scala. She spoke about her various experiences and the challenges she encountered along the way. We also talked about the importance of creating a safe environment for women …

Markus Nerlich is a Process Manager He talked about his journey, and the way he discovered his passion through curiosity, which motivated him to persevere even in the face of numerous obstacles. Listen to the full episode and learn about his inspiring journey! ----more---- 00:00 - Introduction 01:58 - The beginning of his journey in Travel industry…

Galina Atamankina is a Tech Trainer at Tech Starter and one of the organisers of the AWS Women's User Group Berlin: https://www.meetup.com/berlin-amazon-web-services-meetup-group/ Galina talked about her career path. Throughout her journey, she has embraced diverse roles and skillfully seized every opportunity to expand her knowledge and perspectiv…

Alika is a hands-on CTO at Kaizo and she organises a Scala meetup in Amsterdam. Alika shared about: her journey during her studies and her career path, how she dealt with different challenges, how she took the different opportunities and built new skills, and how she included her passion and creativity to bring more opportunities and expand her kno…

Flavio Brasil is a Principal Software Engineer and a speaker atTech conferences. Flavio shared about his inspiring journey along his career path and how he dealt with the different challenges that he had encountered. Listen to the full episode and learn more about his inspiring journey! ----more---- 00:00 - Introduction 02:22 - How he got intereste…

Koussay Khelil is a Senior Software Engineer at ClickGUARD He discovered his passion for computers at a young age, studied computer science, and started working at a Tech company during his studies, which helped him develop his programming skills and grow in his career. In this episode, Koussay talked about his career path and shared many tips that…

Becca is a Senior Tech Recruiter for Functional Programming at Wave Talent. In this episode, Becca talks about her career path and the various challenges she has overcome that have helped her grow. She also talks about the mission of the Functional Female Community that she and her colleague founded. She talks about the best practices she uses to b…

Bendix is a Tech Lead and a Software Engineer. He discovered his passion for programming when he was 13 y.o. Bendix studied Economics and Political Science at university, but never stopped improving his programming skills. In this episode, he shares about the opportunities that got him to Software Engineering. He is now a Tech Lead and a Software E…

Mohamed Ali is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He talked about his career path and about his different roles in different companies and different countries. Mohamed shared about the different challenges that he had encountered during his journey and how he dealt with them to grow in every step in his career. Listen to the full episode to l…

Margit is an experienced coach, moderator, trainer and mediator.She supports leaders and teams improving their collaboration and way of working. In this episode Margit shared about her journey and how she changed her career path. She was in Fashion business field and she developed skills on leading projects and different teams until she got into Ag…

Paulo Baena is a Backend Software Engineer. In this episode he talked about his career path and the different challenges he had faced and he shared about what he has learned through his different experiences. Paulo moved to different countries and had worked with different interesting Tech companies. He has an inspiring journey. To learn more about…

Anya Huang is a Backend Software Engineer at Delivery Hero. She was a model and a TV presenter then she started her journey to learn programming through a Tech training program ReDi: https://www.redi-school.org then she started her job at Delivery Hero. In this episode Anya shared about her inspiring experience. Listen to the full episode to learn …

Ahmed Hafez Zayed is a Senior Android Developer at SumUp. In this episode Ahmed talked about his career path since his studies. He shared valuable advice that he has learned from his different experiences and from the challenges he had encountered that helped him to grow. Listen to the full episode to learn more about his inspiring journey! ----mor…

Anna is a scientist and she changed her career path to become a Backend Software Developer. She has an inspiring journey! Listen to the full episode and learn about her journey! ----more---- 00:00 - Introduction 01:33 - How she got into programming 04:00 - How she applied for her first job and the challenges she had faced 10:21 - How did she stay m…

Wiem is a Software Engineer at LiveIntent and the host of Tech✨Tak Podcast. In this episode Wiem shared about her journey during her studies and her first job in Tunisia. She talked about the different challenges she had faced and how she progressed into her career and moved to Paris then to Germany. She talked also about her experience when she wa…

Fabian is a Chapter Lead and a Software Developer at MOIA in Hamburg, Germany. In this episode Fabian talked about his career path since his studies. He shared about his experience on machine learning and operations research and how he made his choices. Fabian shared some tips to make a good impression in a job interview and many valuable advice fr…

In this episode Ata Mrktchyan, a "Universe Engineer" at LiveIntent, talks about her journey, sharing about her studies and her different jobs as QA Engineer and Software Engineer using different programming languages. She tells about how challenging herself and being curious helped her grow and chase her dreams, sharing valuable lessons and advice …

Jonathan Winandy is a Data Engineer and a director at Univalence. In this episode, Jonathan shared about his journey during his studies and work, and how he followed the Data Engineering path. He tried to work in different positions and he faced challenges that helped him grow. He pointed out how much is important to ask questions and he shared adv…

Calvin Chang is an iOS software engineer at Trade Republic. In this episode Calvin shared about how he started his journey and how he chose his path, he talked about his different learning experiences during his career and he shared some advice that he has learned from his experiences. To learn more about the inspiring journey of Calvin Chang. List…

Zamina is a Product Manager and a Founder of shades&contrast. In this episode Zamina shared about her career path and her different experiences working in Tech. She talked about the challenges that she had faced and how she decided to build her own company and to combine her passion and her profession. She also talked about the mission of her compa…

Chamsddine is a Front-end Developer at Claimsforce, Chams got passionate about computers and programming since he was a kid, and he started working in different projects when he was 13, at University he took accounting as a major, but he was continuing his IT projects then he decided to choose IT as a career path even after he graduated in a differ…

Jorge is a software engineer at Scalac, mostly focused on the backend. He's had the chance to work with several technologies and programming languages across different industries, such as Telco, AdTech, Streaming and Online Education. Also, he loves Functional Programming, especially in Scala. In this episode Jorge shared about his journey during h…

Nodar is a Full Stack Software Engineer at Freiheit.com During High school Nodar studied Mathematics as a major. When he was 15, he got interested in programming and he joined some competitive programming 'olympiad' in high school, this inspired him to continue on IT direction and he decided to study Computer Science at university. Nodar shared som…

Ibtihel Fekih is a software engineer with 7 years of experience in IT and currently she is an entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of Kbayroun. This episode is a summary in English of the previous tunisian discussion with Ibtihel. Ibtihel shared about her different learning experiences and some advice and inspirational stories that she went thr…

Ibtihel Fekih is a software engineer with 7 years of experience in IT and currently she is an entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of Kbayroun. She's active in social media and she is an inspiration to many Tunisians. This episode is exceptional, Ibtihel and I talked in Tunisian Dialect, so we could make it accessible to the Tunisian audience t…

Kit is a Scala programmer and a teacher at Ziverge. In his free time, he contributes to Open Source software and bangs chaotically on his piano. In this episode, Kit talked about his journey during his studies and about his career path. He shared about his learning experiences during his inspiring journey. To learn more listen to full episode. ----…

Amany is a Data Engineer. In this episode Amany shared about her journey during her studies and her career in Tech. She talked about the different obstacles that she had faced and how it is important to choose a healthy working environment. She shared a very important message. I hope that the story of Amany will help to raise awareness about divers…

Adam Fraser is a solutions architect. He is one of the top contributors to ZIO, a library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in functional Scala. Adam is the co-author of the ZIO Test and the author of ZIO Query. He is a conference speaker, writer, and mentor to other software developers regarding functional programming. In this episode Ad…

Nivi is a Full Stack Developer. She studied Management Science then she decided to start a new journey in a different direction to explore other opportunities until she found her way into programming. She learned programming from the available resources on the Internet and she worked on projects to make progress faster, then she started her career …

Justin found his way into Scala and Software Tooling Development after a long path as a student of computer science and computational linguistics. Today he works on the Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA to improve integration of build tools and different teams across organizations. He is a Software Engineer and a Customer Success Engineer. In this epi…

Mouna is a Software Engineer. She works as a Mobile Developer in Dubai. In this episode Mouna shared about her experience studying and working in Tunisia, I studied with Mouna, we talked about our experience when we chose to study Computer Science even it was a new option in Tunisia during that time and the future wasn't clear for us. Mouna shared …

Ayoub is a Data Engineer Freelancer and part-time Teacher at Paris 12 University. He holds a Master's Degree in Distributed Systems, interested in both Functional Programming and Distributed Systems including Blockchain technologies. In this episode, Ayoub talked about his experience during his studies and working in Tech and about the support of h…

Ujali is a Software Engineer at Liveintent. Ujali shared about her experience studying and working in India, and about her career journey in Dubai and Germany. She shared about some challenges that she had faced and the different opportunities that she got. She shared some advice and suggestions that helped her personally to progress in her career …

Daniel is a software engineer and the founder of Rock the JVM, the online training resource on Scala, functional programming and everything in the Scala ecosystem. He's taught more than 42000 engineers and personally trained high-performing teams at Adobe, Apple, Orange and other companies in the US and Europe. He also teaches kids to code, and has…

Merlin got into Computer Science because computers told him that he should study Computer Science. During his Bachelor and Master studies, he worked for many different companies in different fields using various programming languages. His drive towards optimization brought him to functional programming and eventually got him into working on a PhD t…

Roksolana works as a Big Data Engineer at Captify. She is a speaker at technical conferences and meetups, one of the Women Who Code Kyiv leads. She is passionate about Big Data, Scala, and Kubernetes and she always loves to learn something new. In this episode Roksolana talked about her journey , her learning experience and about some challenges th…

Omar studied for a Social Sciences degree before he discovered his passion about computers. He had a part-time job in a lab during his studies, where he learned a lot. He then decided to continue in that direction. Attending trainings and workshops, joining a community and participating to teach about different systems and automation, Omar is now a…

Jakub discovered his passion for programming since he was 10 y.o. He encountered different challenges and had to make decisions that changed his educational path, this helped him to grow professionally. Jakub is a senior software engineer at Disney Streaming, an open source contributor, he gives talks in different Scala meetups and conferences and …

In this podcast we're going to meet people who are working in tech companies. They will share with us about their journey. Listening to different stories can inspire you to figure out a direction in your career or if you are already working, this will motivate you to keep going and to notice the different opportunities in your field.…