TomTom Engineering Podcast - The Magic Behind The Map

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TomTom Engineering Podcast - The Magic Behind The Map

Billions of data points. Millions of sources. Hundreds of communities. 125+ million drivers have been supplied with our tech. Ever wondered how we develop our location technology with teams around the globe? The TomTom Engineering Podcast, The Magic Behind The Map, is a podcast made by the engineers of TomTom. Felix Faassen and Rijn Buve discuss topics on software engineering, devops, security, data science, machine learning, open-source, and software engineering culture.

Episodes

  1. 06/29/2023

    UX Research with Elise Wabeke

    User experience is at the core of the product we create at TomTom. In this episode we talk about UX research (and also how it differs from UX design) in TomTom with Elise Wabeke. Elise holds a master’s degree Design for Interaction from the Delft University of Technology. Links Sketching User Experiences by Bill BuxtonAmmassalik wooden maps

    21 min

  2. 05/31/2023

    3D rendering with Rok Erjavec

    In this episode we talk about 3D rendering with Rok Erjavec. Rok is technical director for map visualization in TomTom, with long term experience in 3D rendering (specifically for the game-industry, consoles and embedded systems).We talk about the history and progress of 3D rendering in resource-constraint environments and how great map visualization can make a difference in navigation.

    25 min

  3. 04/25/2023

    Data Stream Processing Pipelines at Scale with Ivan Diaz

    In this episode we talk with Ivan Diaz who is a Principal Staff Engineer at TomTom who is working on the systems which automate part of our map making and distribution systems. Ivan, has over 20 years of experience in software engineering. He feels at home designing complex distributed systems for greenfield and/or integrated projects, with a mixture of cloud technologies and messaging systems.

    23 min

  4. 03/28/2023

    Maplibre Map Rendering with Oliver Wipfli

    Today we will dive into world of rendering a map and talk with Oliver Wipfli. He is one of the coordinators and a governing board member of the Maplibre open-source project. Oliver holds a master’s degree in physics and worked as a PhD student in quantum engineering and optics. He also worked as an intern at Nvidia working on PhysX/Omniverse products. Maplibre website: https://maplibre.orgMaplibre sponsorship program: https://maplibre.org/sponsors/Maplibre on GitHub:https://github.c...

    24 min

  5. 01/03/2023

    Machine Learning at Meta with Ankit Jain

    This episode we go on a journey through machine learning and data science with Ankit Jain. Ankit Jain is Engineering Manager Machine Learning at Meta. Ankit is an experienced AI Researcher/Machine Learning Engineer who has researched and deployed several scalable machine learning models at Uber, Meta and Bank of America. He Co-authored a bestseller book "Tensorflow Machine Learning Projects" and has published in top AI conferences like Neurips, ICML and ICLR. He has undergraduate a...

    26 min

  6. 12/05/2022

    Cross Platform Mobile App Development with Gary Hogarth

    In this episode we hang out with Gary Hogarth who is a staff engineer in the TomTom Amigo development team. Amigo is our latest free mobile navigation app that is build using React-native. We talk about his journey into becoming a software engineer, react-native, turbo modules instead of bridges and breaking things. Resources mentioned in the podcast:React NativeTurbo ModulesFlutterDownload TomTom Amigo Mobile AppInterested in a career at TomTom? Check out Careers @TomTom

    23 min

  7. 11/22/2022

    Site Reliability Engineering with Rick Rackow

    In this episode we have a chat with Rick Rackow who is an Expert Site Reliability Engineer at TomTom.We start by learning how Rick originally started his career as a car mechanic and how he got interested in software engineering and site reliability engineering . During the interview we discuss Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Kubernetes and OpenShift. We also discuss the benefits of treating infrastructure as code and what advantages and caveats immutable infrastructures hav...

    22 min
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Billions of data points. Millions of sources. Hundreds of communities. 125+ million drivers have been supplied with our tech. Ever wondered how we develop our location technology with teams around the globe? The TomTom Engineering Podcast, The Magic Behind The Map, is a podcast made by the engineers of TomTom. Felix Faassen and Rijn Buve discuss topics on software engineering, devops, security, data science, machine learning, open-source, and software engineering culture.

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