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6 months ago

Few careers have the kind of daily worldwide impact as software engineering. It shapes the interactions that billions of people have online across so many moments of their days. So, how do software engineers keep ahead of the world's increasing reliance on IT solutions? Welcome to SEEK Bytes, a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers who work at SEEK, an Australian-founded leader in online employment marketplaces. Each fortnight, our team of hosts and guests will explore internationally topical issues, interview experts in their field and share practical insights and tips relevant to you and what you love to do. Software engineering impacts everyone. Join us as we deep dive into your IT career and celebrate the influence that software engineering has in an online world. SEEK is a market leader in online employment marketplaces that span ten countries across Asia Pacific and Latin America. Visit SEEK at seek.com

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Few careers have the kind of daily worldwide impact as software engineering. It shapes the interactions that billions of people have online across so many moments of their days. So, how do software engineers keep ahead of the world's increasing reliance on IT solutions? Welcome to SEEK Bytes, a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers who work at SEEK, an Australian-founded leader in online employment marketplaces. Each fortnight, our team of hosts and guests will explore internationally topical issues, interview experts in their field and share practical insights and tips relevant to you and what you love to do. Software engineering impacts everyone. Join us as we deep dive into your IT career and celebrate the influence that software engineering has in an online world. SEEK is a market leader in online employment marketplaces that span ten countries across Asia Pacific and Latin America. Visit SEEK at seek.com

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Ep 40: The Engineering Leadership Leap with Gladys Lim (Season 2 Final)

Changing from hands-on engineer to engineering manager is a leap that many talented developers find intimidating—with good reason. Gladys Lim shares her personal path through this career progression, offering insights into the often unclear roadmap of leadership. Gladys discusses the common challenges engineers face when stepping into management roles, from shifting identity away from technical contributions to developing the people skills necessary for team leadership. She discusses how she uses her technical knowledge as an advantage in her role, revealing the strategies that helped her succeed and the unexpected lessons she learned along the way.

6 months ago

45 minutes

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Ep 39: Deep Dive into Clean Architecture with Adam Kreitals

In part two of our conversation with Adam Kreitals, we move from theory to practice. Having explained the reasoning behind Clean Architecture, we will now explore real-world applications and concrete examples of its principles. Adam covers Onion Architecture, Domain Driven Architecture plus more, explaining how Clean Architecture brings them together to separate our concerns. We also touch on rich and anaemic entities, the dependency rule, and more. Get ready for a thorough look at Clean Architecture.

6 months ago

42 minutes

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Ep:38: Demystifying Clean Architecture with Adam Kreitals

Clean Architecture is a powerful approach to software design that prioritizes long-term maintainability and flexibility, but what does it all mean? Evolving landscapes—technologies, dependencies, frameworks, performance needs, and security demands—are constant in our field. Whatever we build today will almost certainly go through change. It’s when we acknowledge this that Clean Architecture proves its true value. Adam Kreitals unpacks the principles of Clean Architecture and the importance of making software resilient to change.

6 months ago

45 minutes

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Ep 37: White hat hacking and the companies that take advantage of good intent

The crew discuss the morals and principles of white hat hacking and reporting found vulnerabilities to the companies affected. But what happens when someone does the right thing but the reaction from these large companies is not what's expected. Is the company in the right or are they taking advantage?

7 months ago

29 minutes

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Ep 36: Goldplating, evangelism and Software Engineers as customers with Leon Belobrov & Alex Stewart-James

Leon and Alex further explore the ins and outs of Technical Product Management. They share advice on how Software Engineers can influence the technical roadmap and better align to the companies product goals. They also explore the career pathways into transitioning from a Software Engineer (and related roles) to a Technical Product Manager.

7 months ago

25 minutes

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Ep 35: What is a Technical Product Manager? Guests Leon Belobrov & Alex Stewart-James explore their roles

Leon and Alex explain the role of improving product development through building reliable and efficient platform based tools that Software Engineers consume instead of end customers. Their roles help to guide their teams build the tools for Software engineer needs that fundamentally align to the overarching business strategy.

7 months ago

29 minutes

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Ep 34: Why do hackers hack? AI security vulnerabilities and more with Security Influencer, Kelsy Luengen

What does it take to build a strong security culture? In part two, Kelsy Luengen shares further insights on fostering security awareness, getting leadership buy-in, and influencing without authority. Kelsy also explores social engineering hacks along with new and upcoming AI vulnerabilities including using your likeness.

7 months ago

31 minutes

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Ep 33: Security practices and exploring the role of a Security Influencer with Kelsy Luengen

Security isn’t just about tools and policies—it’s about culture. Kelsy Luengen joins us to talk about how engineers can influence security practices within their teams. Security often falls to dedicated teams, but how can individual engineers advocate for better security practices? Kelsy shares practical ways to make security a shared responsibility across an organization. This episode is part 1 of a 2 part series.

8 months ago

30 minutes

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Ep 32: Flight Security breaches, SQL Injection and Job Interviews

What do flight security and SQL injection have in common? More than you think! Security vulnerabilities can have real-world consequences. In this episode, we discuss SQL injection—why it’s still a problem, how to prevent it, and what engineers should know. Then, we shift gears to job interviews, sharing tips for technical interviews, behavioral questions, and standing out as a candidate.

8 months ago

33 minutes

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Ep 31: Front-end Best Practices with Jahred Hope - Part 2

In part two of our front-end series, we continue our conversation with Jahred Hope, diving deeper into the world of front-end software engineering, covering accessibility, testing strategies, and real-world implementations of building UI that stands the test of time. If you enjoyed part one, you won’t want to miss this.

8 months ago

28 minutes

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Ep 30: Front-end Best Practices with Jahred Hope - Part 1

Front-end development is always evolving. What makes a front-end codebase great? In this two-part series, we sit down with Jahred Hope, the Engineering Manager for front-end practices at SEEK, to break down front-end best practices, the latest trends, and how to build scalable, maintainable UI. We talk through essential practices, from structuring code to performance optimization. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned front-end engineer, this episode has something for you.

8 months ago

28 minutes

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Ep 29: Thriving in Change with Sarah Duffy

Change is constant in the tech industry, but managing it effectively? That’s a skill on its own! Sarah Duffy joins us to discuss how individuals and organisations can thrive amidst change, including the art and science of change management. Listen in to gain byte sized insights on how to build your change resilience, foster alignment, and make change work for everyone.

9 months ago

41 minutes

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Ep 28: The Power of Side Projects

Ever wondered if that side project you've been tinkering with could turn into something bigger? Side projects are more than just a hobby—they're a way to experiment, learn new skills, and build something truly your own. In this episode, we explore the value of side projects—how they help engineers grow, stay motivated, and even land new opportunities. We discuss why engineers should invest time in side projects, how to balance them with work, and stories of projects that turned into career-changing opportunities.

9 months ago

26 minutes

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Ep 27: Trust, but verify - Why programmers should maintain a healthy skepticism

Why is a healthy dose of scepticism essential for software engineers and why should you cast doubt on things we should trust; CDNs, security reports and our own code. Delve into the concept of “Abstraction-ception”, making the bold claim that everything we know is an abstraction of an abstraction. Can learning topics superficially lead to unexpected bugs in code? Tune in to hear real-world stories of security issues that the SEEK Bytes hosts have encountered, and how abstractions are both necessary for understanding and risky in making us believe we know "enough". Resources: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-rejects-cve-severity-makes-his-github-repo-read-only/ https://lab.wallarm.com/polyfill-io-supply-chain-attack-malicious-javascript-injection-puts-over-100k-websites-at-risk/ https://carbon-steel.github.io/jekyll/update/2024/06/19/abstractions.html

1 year ago

50 minutes

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Ep 26: Best practices on working with API's

This week's episode explores REST API's and the best practices for working with API's in general. API design validation, asynchronous processing, security, rate limiting, monitoring and more are discussed by Will, Elliott and Seamus. This podcast references the following article: What makes a good rest api (from apitally.io)

1 year ago

57 minutes

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Ep 25: AI Platform System Engineering with Ren Shao

AI - The fast-growing tech that’s increasing in every aspect of our lives and creating fascinating new engineering roles. It's a topic we can’t stop our hosts talking about. (We’ve tried!) In this episode, our hosts focus on a particular AI engineering role - AI Platform System Engineering. Joined by Ren Shao, an AI System Engineer at SEEK, based in Sydney, we explore this rarely talked about role in AI on a technical level. We explore why computer science still matters, how SEEK uses Machine Learning to power our job search, what are the complexities compared to typical web development and what are the pathways into this unique role.

1 year ago

57 minutes

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Ep 24: Time zones and Sumo Wrestling

Time zones in the world of Software Engineering are complex to master. In this episode, our hosts uncover (and attempt to understand) the complexities. What are the rules to converting time zones? What's in the naming of time zones? What about daylight saving? Why do some countries choose time zones that suit their preferences rather than the standard longitudinal positioning of the country? The hosts are clear from the start that they're not experts in this field and fear not, you won't be either by the end of this episode, but we hope you'll learn a thing or two. You can find Zain Rizvi's article referenced in this episode here

1 year ago

39 minutes

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Ep 23: Distributed vs Remote Teams with Laavanya Kathiresen and Jerome Chan

In our first internationally recorded podcast, our Australian hosts are joined by colleagues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to discuss the challenges and wins of having distributed teams and how that differs from remote teams. Join special guests Laavanya Kathiresen and Jerome Chan who share their insights into the pros and cons, of asynchronous working, onboarding, and answering the question: what is Malaysia time?

1 year ago

55 minutes

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Ep 22: Part 2 of Transforming SEEK: Unifying with Jobstreet and Jobsdb with James Ross (SEEK APAC CTO)

This is Part 2 of a two part series. Listen to Episode 21 first to get the full story. SEEK's recently successful, post acquisition integration has been a 3 year journey for the entire company. SEEK APAC CTO, James Ross, shares his insights of leading an expanded APAC Engineering department through the most challenging and rewarding experience of his (almost) 40 year career.

1 year ago

39 minutes

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Ep 21: Transforming SEEK: Unifying with Jobstreet and Jobsdb with James Ross (SEEK APAC CTO) - Part 1

SEEK's recently successful, post acquisition integration has been a 3 year journey for the entire company. SEEK APAC CTO, James Ross, shares his insights of leading an expanded APAC Engineering department through the most challenging and rewarding experience of his (almost) 40 year career. This is part 1 of a two part podcast because if you know James, you know he has some great stories to tell!

1 year ago

47 minutes