The Reconfigured Podcast technolaaji

Today’s episode is with Luciano Mammino, Senior Architect at fourTheorem and co-author of the well known book “Nodejs Design Patterns” that is published by Packt. In this episode we have discussed the following:


What fourTheorem offers (and why they chose AWS as cloud provider of choice)
Transitioning from just writing code to adopting the cloud
Challenges being a CTO
The challenges of co-writing a book
Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program
And much more

Video version of the episode: https://youtu.be/23bKVdY0gp8

Audio version of the episode: https://www.reconfigured.stream

Show transcript and notes: https://www.technolaaji.com

Today’s episode is with Jackson Gabbard, CTO at Cord and ex-Facebook employee who started the engineering team for Facebook in the UK. In this episode we have discussed the follow:


What Cord offers
Requirements for someone to be qualified as a CTO
Challenges coordinating a team of developers
Refactoring code and real life examples of refactoring in production
Hiring process of developers from high profile companies
Facebook’s timeline implementation
Facebook’s data capturing implementation + patent registry
Facebook UK engineering team story
Facebook’s Integrity and Safety measures
And much more

Video version of the episode: https://youtu.be/hJqQvl6QK3A

Audio version of the episode: https://www.reconfigured.stream

Show notes: https://www.technolaaji.com/blog/facebook-uk-engineering-team-and-cto-at-cord-with-jackson

Today’s episode is with Rawad Assaf, Founding Partner at RAMS services and CTO of UK Tech Hub Lebanon. In this episode we have discussed the following topics:


What RAMS offers
When it is time to start your own business
Picking the right partners for your startup
Why RAMS chose Clojure as programming language of choice
Common issues startups faced when starting out when he was a CTO at UK Tech Hub
Finding suitable candidates to hire for your company/startup
Requirements for becoming a mentor/coach
Interview processes and should companies adopt the typical interview process
His adventures at Murex and why he stayed there for more than 10 years
And much more

Video version of the episode: https://youtu.be/K_tLt-oHkP8

Audio version of the episode: https://www.reconfigured.stream

Show notes: https://www.technolaaji.com

Today’s episode is with William Collins, Principal Cloud Architect at Alkira. In this episode we have discussed the following:


His role at Alkira
Multi Cloud connections and how Alkira provides a reliable solution
Multi Cloud in companies that adopt a one cloud provider
When to use a monolith and when to use micro services
Hybrid Cloud and how it operates (through his experience in Humana)
Automating cloud resources with Terraform
Certifications
And much more

Video version: https://youtu.be/zhpIoPtRaQE

Show notes: https://www.technolaaji.com/blog/multicloud-with-william-collins

Today’s episode is with Sean Falconer, head of developer relations at Skyflow. In this episode we have discussed the following:


His role as Head of Developer at Skyflow
What Skyflow offers and how it can impact businesses on a large scale
His adventures at Google
The benefits Google provides to its employees
His position being a CTO and founder to a startup
His experience being a Postdoc at Stanford
And much more

Video version of the episode: https://youtu.be/58TnzeeHgW8

Show notes of the episode: https://www.technolaaji.com/blog/developer-relation-cto-founder-exgoogle-with-sean-falconer

Today’s episode is with Maysaa Ajjan, a journalist at Arab News. We have discussed the following topics:


Her contributions to Al Annahar on the “Startup City” segment
How Arabnet had the ability to track some startups in details
Funding mechanism for startups from BDL (circular 331), bootcamps, competitions, and angel investing
Lebanese startups conditions before the 2019 economic crisis (failed, operating, exited, migrated)
Lebanese startups conditions after the 2019 economic crisis
Fundings
Migration of talents and startups
The rising new economy of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin being used in current Lebanese startups

Audio version of the episode is available on: https://www.reconfigured.stream

Video version of the episode is available on: https://youtu.be/RNDs4ki0YtY

Show notes and sources are available on: https://www.technolaaji.com/blog/startups-in-lebanon-with-maysaa-ajjan