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In Meaningful work interviews I talk to people about their area of work and expertise to better understand what they do and why it matters to them. Jose Antonio Pio Gil is Engineering Manager and Cloud Architect and Marley Spoon. We discuss the role of Engineering Manager and Cloud Architect and his approach to leading […]
In Meaningful work interviews I talk to people about their area of work and expertise to better understand what they do and why it matters to them. Naomi Spirit is a founder of a small digital agency From This Day. They focus on creating websites with a low environmental impact. We discussed how to develop […]
In Meaningful work interviews I talk to people about their area of work and expertise to better understand what they do and why it matters to them. Rok Breulj is the founder of Proxy Studios, a small indie game studio that makes PC games. Their biggest title to date is Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics […]
In Meaningful work interviews I talk to people about their area of work and expertise to better understand what they do and why it matters to them. How do others introduce you? I think the last description of me was that I am the resident mad scientist. While I was still at Metabase, my time […]
Gabrijela Hladnik is an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer. We discussed where quality fits into the development process, how to get started and what management should know about quality assurance practices.
Maja Rihar is an ergonomics consultant specializing in a workplace environment. In our conversation, I tried to learn current best practices in how to set up my work environment.
Sara Vošinek Gašpar is an IT recruiter. She explained to me why job ads in the IT industry are so strange, the specifics of the Slovenian IT market, and how developers can further level up. After talking with her I started to see the benefits of building a relationship with a recruiter and not just randomly applying to job ads.
Jana Bergant is a developer, creator, and author of online courses with over 25000 students. She kindly answered my questions on how to approach creating commercial online courses. We’ve also discussed personal growth for developers and how to find your space in the world.
Larsen Cundrič is in his final year of undergraduate Computer Science studies. We also talked about his previous entrepreneurial experience. At the time of this conversation, he was just finishing his last week of exams during his Erasmus exchange in Denmark.
Matej Martinc is a Ph.D. researcher at “Jožef Stefan” Institute in the Department of Knowledge Technologies where he invents new approaches on how to work and analyze written text. He explained to me the basics of Natural Language Processing (NLP), why neural networks are amazing, and how one gets started with all of this. In the second half, he shared how he ended up in Computer Science with a Philosophy degree and why working for companies like Google is not something that interests him.