The Tech 'o' Space Podcast

Akhil Navuluri

A Tech Podcast Series, in which we connect and interact with different leaders across the world in tech space

  1. 6d ago

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 128 - The Champion’s Rise: MongoDB Mastery for Global Community Power

    In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Nenad Milosavljevic, who is the Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack of the company - Flatfee Corp. He is based out of Belgrade, Serbia a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry. b) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities of being the Senior Software Engineer for the company "Flatfee Corp" c) Shares his experience of being awarded as the "MongoDB Champion" and the world's top 700 programmers in 2022 on Stack Overflow, having said that talks about his reaction and the groundwork laid by him to achieve that title acting as an inspirational roadmap to the listeners around the world. d) Being the MongoDB Subject Matter Expert, mentions about his take on the importance and implementation of MongoDB Certifications in the EU region. e) Mentions about his strong expertise and proficiency on the likes of TypeScript, Angular, Node.js, Express and, Mongoose and, also talks about a connecting factor of these technologies with MongoDB. f) Being a MongoDB User Group Leader, provides the listeners an insight into the number of MongoDB and tech events he has organized and was part of in Belgrade and across Serbia. g) Shares his experience of attending the 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐃𝐁 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 and, 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐃𝐁 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 and also the key moments being part of those events. h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire IT journey.

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 128 - The Champion’s Rise: MongoDB Mastery for Global Community Power
  2. Jul 22

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 126 - AI Security vs AI Safety: Redefining Risk in the Age of AI Agents

    In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Rolf Schulz, who is the Founder and Principal of Quantropic.ai company. He is based out of Singapore. a) Mentions about the difference between AI safety and AI security and, also explains about why business leaders should care since many people talk about AI safety and often distinguish the notions of AI safety from AI security. b) Going by the hot topic - AI Agents either act as a productivity revolution or security nightmare, from a security perspective mentions about the changes when an AI can take action and not just answer questions. c) Talks about the areas the AI safety sits under - CIO, CISO, or its own function? d) Mentions about the things the companies should do before deploying AI and also if a company wants to adopt generative AI or AI agents, talks about first security steps before going live or the first steps into the transformation. e) Having been in this line for more than 8 years or so looks at the possibility of AI attacking, defending and governing. Going by his opinion, clarifies on the direction the world is moving towards to and talks about his vision on AI security evolving over the next two to three years. f) Mentions about the cost of ignoring AI safety and shares a real-world example pertaining to it. g) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire tenure.

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 126 - AI Security vs AI Safety: Redefining Risk in the Age of AI Agents
  3. Jul 16

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 125 - ITSM Without Illusions: Discipline, AI & the Human Factor

    In this podcast episode we are once again absolutely honored to interact and collaborate in this second podcast episode with Ms. Kim King, who is the Owner and Senior ITSM / ITIL Consultant of CAKE IT Consulting company and is also the author of the book "Rid the Rot: The Fixer’s Guide to ITSM Health". She is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a) Mentions about the disconnect between book ITSM and runtime operations and, also explains the crux behind it. b) One of the biggest conversations happening right now in ITSM is around experience and human-centered IT, talks about the reasons the industry is moving too far away from operational discipline. c) There is growing discussion around removing SLAs or reducing focus on KPIs, clarifies her disagreement towards this approach. d) Since AI is probably the biggest topic in ITSM right now, mentions about the reasons organizations misunderstand most about AI readiness. e) Having worked heavily in Organizational Change Management and operational readiness, talks about where organizations often get wrong in that aspect. f) Specifies where does Continuous Service Improvement, or CSI, fit into all of this. g) Having mentioned earlier that dashboards can sometimes look healthy while operations underneath is struggling badly, emphasis the reasons behind it. I) Having mentioned ServiceNow several times in this podcast segment, explains about how a tool like ServiceNow connects to ITSM operationally. j) Going by the origins of her successful book "Rid the Rot", her take on the implementation and importance of starting to build AI into a particular environment.

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 125 - ITSM Without Illusions: Discipline, AI & the Human Factor
  4. Jul 15

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 124 - The AI Odyssey : Breaking Barriers with Data

    In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Michael Kingston who is the Machine Learning Engineer at Enigma Global Technologies company and Sponsorship Committee, Community Advisory Board at AWS Community Day Australia. He is based out of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia a) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT and the Data Science space. b) Provides a walk-through of her key responsibilities of being the Machine Learning Engineer for the company "Enigma Global Technologies". c) Gives an insight into him being part of the Sponsorship Committee, Community Advisory Board for the AWS Community Day Australia and, also clarifies the event being Pan-Australian covering the different provinces of Australia. d) Provides a spotlight into him creating the "RefVision" for Sports Refereeing and also shares an interesting backstory associated with respect to coming up with such an innovative approach. e) Gives an overview into hum streamlining live vote counts for ASX-listed companies, leveraging AWS and Power BI to secure the critical DOCA approvals. f) Mentions about the types of Machine Learning models created and deployed by him pertaining to reducing production downtime by 13% in manufacturing, saving over 10M AUD. g) Talks about his proficiency and expertise belonging to the likes of Rust, and AWS services (S3, Lambda, SageMaker, DynamoDB). I) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across into him building scalable ML and AI solutions in industries like financial services, manufacturing, and logistics.

    The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 124 - The AI Odyssey : Breaking Barriers with Data

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A Tech Podcast Series, in which we connect and interact with different leaders across the world in tech space