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Ahead In Tech
Sanjay Purswani
36 episodes
4 days ago
Be informed and inspired by career journeys and insights from people across the Tech spectrum, including traditionally-educated Engineers, Bootcamp grads, Managers, Recruiters, Founders and more. It helps you get ahead in your career journey as a Software Engineer, Developer, UI/UX, Data, QA, Lead, Manager, Exec, and Founder. Watch on YouTube: https://aheadintech.com/youtube https://aheadintech.com​ | Get Ahead in Tech! Podcasts: https://aheadintech.com/podcasts Discord: https://discord.link/aheadintech Twitter: https://twitter.com/AheadInTech Email: hello@aheadintech.com
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Be informed and inspired by career journeys and insights from people across the Tech spectrum, including traditionally-educated Engineers, Bootcamp grads, Managers, Recruiters, Founders and more. It helps you get ahead in your career journey as a Software Engineer, Developer, UI/UX, Data, QA, Lead, Manager, Exec, and Founder. Watch on YouTube: https://aheadintech.com/youtube https://aheadintech.com​ | Get Ahead in Tech! Podcasts: https://aheadintech.com/podcasts Discord: https://discord.link/aheadintech Twitter: https://twitter.com/AheadInTech Email: hello@aheadintech.com
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Ahead In Tech
STEM Learning - Helping kids into STEM careers | Dan Smith, Project Officer

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4 years ago
14 minutes 38 seconds

Ahead In Tech
UK Software IT Contracting Market - Seb, Senior Contractor

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4 years ago
19 minutes

Ahead In Tech
Troy Budd, Software Engineer @ OVO

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4 years ago
23 minutes 11 seconds

Ahead In Tech
The Stand-Up Special! - Abi Travers, Thomas Ochman and Louise Jeffery

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4 years ago
30 minutes 6 seconds

Ahead In Tech
From Web Developer To Teaching Kids How To Code! - Dan Budd

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4 years ago
27 minutes 9 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Managing and Growing Your Money - Pete Matthew, meaningfulmoney.tv

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4 years ago
36 minutes 10 seconds

Ahead In Tech
QA and Software Testing Deep Dive - Neil Studd, Senior SDET @ Postman

00:00 Start

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4 years ago
36 minutes 54 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Care and Maintenance of Tech Teams - David Grain, Director of Agile Delivery

- 00:00 Start

- 01:25 Building Engineering Culture

- 04:15 Role as Director and Manager at EVRYTHNG

- 07:30 Visual Identity at EVRYTHNG

- 12:13 Modern Tech/Engineering Recruitment

- 19:59 Current state of hiring market

- 23:02 Long term investment, nurturing people

- 30:41 COVID Effect, team culture and cohesion

- 37:24 Future of Remote Working

- 39:17 The T-Shaped Individual in Engineering

- 43:54 Broad depth vs deep specialisation

- 45:23 Roles at EVRYTHNG

- 46:15 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
47 minutes 44 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Getting to Lead Dev - Rebecca Appleyard @ Ministry of Justice UK

- 00:00 Start

- 01:35 Why retrain into coding?

- 05:29 The Software Engineering Bootcamp experience

- 09:08 Getting the first role

- 12:15 Hitting lead dev for the first time

- 16:44 Continued growth at a startup

- 20:54 Moving to the MoJ at Lead level

- 24:25 Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

- 26:33 Leading others with more experience than you

- 29:18 Importance of Mentors

- 33:22 Technical Leaders vs People Leaders

- 36:49 Future growth

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4 years ago
38 minutes 36 seconds

Ahead In Tech
The "Quietly Confident" Bootcamp Experience - Guillaume Bouffard - Engineer at Voxnest

- 00:00 Start

- 01:25 Motivation to learn Coding via Bootcamp

- 04:35 Fear of going to Bootcamp

- 06:27 His Bootcamp experience

- 09:19 Gaining confidence after the course

- 11:09 Landing the first job

- 14:13 Growth by challenging yourself with career moves

- 18:05 Getting the latest role at Voxnest

- 22:12 Technical growth

- 24:45 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

- 26:36 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
27 minutes

Ahead In Tech
Training Developers and working at Startups - Gilles Guegan

- 00:00 Start

- 01:53 Work that Credit Benchmark is doing

- 09:16 The JavaScript courses at City University London

- 20:41 What you've learned teaching Devs and Engineers

- 24:56 Company labels, startups, scaleups

- 30:17 What you need to know before working at a startup

- 37:41 Meaninglessness of Job Titles

- 43:44 Imposter Syndrome

- 51:26 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
52 minutes 32 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Season 1 Finale - The Reverse Interview!

- 00:00 Start

- 01:18 Why start this podcast

- 05:50 What's surprised or impressed you from career journeys

- 09:07 How do you cope with stress

- 10:53 Most useful lesson from people's career stories

- 12:46 Best piece of advice for a Tech career

- 15:28 Will you go back to coding

- 19:45 What have you learned promoting your podcast

- 23:30 Are you fully yourself when interviewing people

- 26:42 What's the future of the show

- 31:39 What do you want to be most proud of

- 34:52 Which character from Friends would you be

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4 years ago
37 minutes 41 seconds

Ahead In Tech
The American CS Grad Journey - Nikita Rajput | Software Engineer @ Salesforce

- 00:00 Start

- 02:19 Internships in Tech

- 08:12 Being prepared for your first Software Engineering role

- 10:20 Minor Program in Shenzhen, China

- 14:54 Internships leading to first Developer role

- 19:25 Great company cultures to look out for

- 22:45 Tech interests

- 24:00 Career paths

- 27:28 Remote culture and challenges

- 31:10 Maintaining Junior growth while remote

- 33:30 Post-pandemic work-from-home WFH expectations

- 36:11 Working alongside Bootcamp graduates

- 38:15 Importance of diversity

- 39:37 Current state of Women in Tech

- 44:04 The "Cut The Code" Podcast

- 46:49 Contacting Nikita

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4 years ago
48 minutes 10 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Building in Public, Social Media Strategies for Growth - Kevon Cheung | publiclab.co

- 00:00 Start

- 01:50 Motivation for coding Bootcamp

- 03:36 Experience at Bootcamp

- 06:26 First Developer role

- 07:22 Toasty - the 2nd startup

- 10:10 Exiting the startup

- 11:54 Motivation to exit

- 13:02 Taking the harder paths in life

- 14:56 Motivation to Build in Public

- 16:49 Intro to Building in Public

- 18:35 First experiences with Building in Public

- 21:19 Guides and resources

- 25:24 Benefits of Building in Public

- 27:38 Key strategies

- 30:10 Storytelling

- 31:07 Retaining engagement

- 33:17 Common misconceptions

- 36:19 The future of Building in Public

- 39:14 Building in Public 30day challenge

- 41:46 Cohort-based learning

- 43:02 Journey of self-discovery and uniqueness

- 46:36 Personal life in Public

- 47:32 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
48 minutes 15 seconds

Ahead In Tech
A Life in Data - Klaudia Gowero | Head of Data Management

- 00:00 Start

- 00:51 Childhood and early career

- 03:15 Creating a Data job

- 06:40 Selling the Data role to the Business

- 15:21 Boundaries between the different Data roles

- 19:00 Biggest problem for Data Scientists

- 20:34 Using Data with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

- 21:54 Most common Business Data issues

- 24:12 Signs your Business doesn't have Data under control

- 27:14 Limited experience with Coding/Software Engineering

- 27:54 Job titles

- 29:49 Burnout leading to a break and a new job

- 35:15 Noticing burnout too late

- 37:38 Maintaining a sustainable pace

- 41:53 Gaining perspective on work/life balance

- 42:50 Current role as Head of Data Management at Encompass

- 45:14 Approach to optimization and automation

- 47:10 The future of Data

- 49:00 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
50 minutes 7 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Executive Coaching Deep-Dive - Evgeny Shadchnev | CEO/Coach @ evgeny.coach

Check out Evgeny's coaching website at evgeny.coach

- 00:00 Start

- 01:52 When being CEO harms your mental wellbeing

- 05:39 Root causes of internal pressure

- 08:16 Different leadership for different stages of a company

- 09:53 Improving mental wellbeing

- 12:54 Coaches vs Therapists

- 14:13 Personal experience being coached

- 16:42 Jerry Colonna's CEO bootcamp

- 20:54 Motivation to go into Executive Coaching

- 22:42 More personal business relationships

- 23:53 Benefits of coaching for startup leaders

- 31:29 Many different types of coaching

- 33:36 Sports coaching as the genesis of executive coaching

- 35:44 Beginning a coach-client relationship

- 39:25 Benefits leaders seek from coaching

- 44:25 Making time for yourself

- 46:41 The Rubber Ducking technique

- 49:15 Ways to find mindfullness

- 51:03 Thoughts of becoming a Monk

- 55:19 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
56 minutes 32 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Tips on starting a business as a Creative - Caron Stace Railly | UI/UX/Marketing

- 00:00 Start

- 03:22 Motivation for going to Bootcamp

- 05:35 Moving from Web Design in Australia to UX in London

- 08:13 Left brain logical thoughts vs right brain creativity

- 10:16 First experiences at Bootcamp

- 12:06 Things she enjoyed

- 13:25 When you realize Bootcamp isn't for you

- 17:42 Mindset

- 19:39 Still dabbling in Coding

- 20:24 Joy of crafting and improving

- 22:02 After Bootcamp

- 25:54 Carrying on the UX journey

- 32:12 Caron's new business helping Creatives

- 36:13 Making money as a Creative

- 39:24 Consulting services

- 44:28 Validating ideas quickly and cheaply

- 45:58 Helping people take back control of their lives

- 48:14 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
48 minutes 55 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Working with Tech Recruiters - Henry Grover | Life Sciences Tech Recruitment

- 00:00 Start

- 01:01 What are Life Sciences and career opportunities

- 01:58 Why move from pure Tech to Life Science Recruitment

- 03:36 Booming Junior Developer/Engineer hiring in Life Sciences

- 04:36 Required qualifications

- 05:32 Competitiveness in the industry

- 06:19 AI and Data Science

- 08:34 Behind the scenes process as a Recruiter

- 13:52 Shady practices in Recruitment

- 17:54 Competitive and cynical nature of Recruitment

- 19:04 Discussing salaries

- 20:43 Good relationships between candidates and Recruiters

- 21:46 LinkedIn reply rates

- 22:28 Getting out of your comfort zone, risk vs reward

- 23:45 Getting the best salary

- 24:47 Finding the RIGHT Recruiter to work with

- 25:42 Motivation and enjoyment from the Recruiter role

- 26:25 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
26 minutes 52 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Tech Startup with no Tech Skills - Chris Hutchings | Founder @ eOpinion

- 00:00 Start

- 01:08 Side hustles

- 02:56 The $100 Startup

- 04:14 Replacing Developers with nocode/locode technologies

- 05:03 Validating Business ideas

- 08:49 Everything about eOpinion.org

- 16:09 The Tech behind eOpinion.org

- 19:29 Joys of Zapier

- 20:57 Goals, metrics, measuring progression

- 22:59 SEO and marketing

- 25:56 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
27 minutes 14 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Getting to Senior Software Engineer - Denise Yu | Senior @ Github

- 00:00 Start

- 01:06 Reasons for going to Software Bootcamp

- 03:57 Experience at Bootcamp

- 05:48 Starting the journey to Senior Software Engineer

- 11:45 Getting your first job vs getting promotions

- 13:19 Obstacles in the way of promotion

- 19:48 Being glue

- 20:34 Self-advocating

- 23:27 Importance and process of getting and giving feedback

- 30:20 Being rejected for promotion

- 32:22 Promotion vs leaving for another role

- 34:58 Where does your Imposter Syndrome come from

- 36:20 Progress beyond Senior Software Engineer

- 37:51 Joke of the Show!

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4 years ago
38 minutes 45 seconds

Ahead In Tech
Be informed and inspired by career journeys and insights from people across the Tech spectrum, including traditionally-educated Engineers, Bootcamp grads, Managers, Recruiters, Founders and more. It helps you get ahead in your career journey as a Software Engineer, Developer, UI/UX, Data, QA, Lead, Manager, Exec, and Founder. Watch on YouTube: https://aheadintech.com/youtube https://aheadintech.com​ | Get Ahead in Tech! Podcasts: https://aheadintech.com/podcasts Discord: https://discord.link/aheadintech Twitter: https://twitter.com/AheadInTech Email: hello@aheadintech.com