Episodes
We interviewed Karel Šimánek from BigHub. They are experts on applied AI and using the cloud to help companies understand their data and implement ML. We talked with Karel about the current Chat GPT models and AI and AGI's future. And also about the cloud, which they leverage for the clients. Should we be afraid that artificial intelligence will take over the world? And which blog to read to get the latest AI/data industry information? Listen to the whole episode.
Current AI models and...
Published 04/24/23
Jaakko Sarno is an experienced game designer who has worked on several successful games in the mobile gaming industry. He worked with Angry Birds creator at Rovio for eight years and is now the Head of Design at Heroic Games. He works on a unique impactverse project - the first Heroic City mission - they’re going to plant trees with their friends at Ecologi company! Play games to plant trees and compete on who makes the most impact! We discussed cloud technology in the gaming industry, game...
Published 04/14/23
Do you know that 25% of the trucks on the road are empty? Štěpán Kaiser discussed this sustainability and logistic topic from a technology point of view with Nikola Balaban, CEO at Dispo Market. Why don't they use Oracle cloud and use AWS? How does he benefit from experience with Google infrastructure at Outfit7 now? How do they use the cloud for optimizing data and processes?
Dispo Market, a Slovenian startup, addresses the issue of wasted space in small and medium-sized company road...
Published 03/20/23
Jüri Tomingas is Senior Product Manager for a mobile app at Pipedrive, a cloud-based global CRM tool and the Estonian unicorn. How different is his Jüri's job from previous experience at Swedbank? What is an Aggressive Ornithology? :) How to manage the product and not slow down its development? Jüri shared his product management experience, cloud-related challenges, why is the cloud like Roblox and many more.
Pipedrive started in 2010, Estonian founders wanted to build a customer...
Published 02/06/23
Idan Mashaal, the Product Strategist and Field CTO at JumpCloud, works with cloud technologies since... seems like forever. He worked at Plus500 for 13 years, solved robust cloud challenges back in 2009, and developed automation and pipelines in times when DevOps practically didn't exist. Now, he works at JumpCloud - an open directory platform that simplifies IT management. They call him General Problem Solver, why? Listen to what Idan has to say about SaaS, zero trust, remote work history,...
Published 01/13/23
We dived deep into cloud technology and cybersecurity topics with the team from our Czech public sector customer The State Treasury Shared Services Center (or hereinafter the SPCSS). SPCSS provides information technology services and specialises in the operation of the state's critical infrastructure. We talked with Jiří Krula (CTO) and Tomáš Šimeček (Head of UNIX/LINUX Technology) about the multi-cloud strategy, tech-trends they see and leverage, cloud and application operations and their...
Published 01/04/23
Lacework is a modern, SaaS-based security and compliance platform. They automate the delivery of cloud security so businesses can innovate rapidly, but do so safely. In this episode, we discuss cloud security from A to Z with Tomas Lempera and Ivo Schoenamaker. Tomas is on the business side of Lacework, talking with partners and customers. Ivo is a service and technical person. They are changing security forever, and we mean it! They believe cloud security is a unique challenge that requires...
Published 11/14/22
Ervin Weber is a community activist, and founder of Google Cloud developer community in Tallinn (Estonia) who currently works as Infrastructure Lead at Pactum AI. Štěpán Kaiser and Ervin talked about his passion for computer science, his road from Toggle to Pactum AI, and about developer community or e-Residency and e-Government in Estonia.
Pactum is an AI-based system that helps global companies to automatically offer personalized, commercial negotiations on a massive scale. The system adds...
Published 09/01/22
Revolgy brings you an exclusive live session recorded at Estonian startup conference Latitude59. We invited technical leaders from Pipedrive, Klaus and Comodule to talk about cloud and money! When you build or scale a business everything seems more important than IT infrastructure and its cost. In this session, our customers will show you the opposite is the truth. They talked about the principles of cloud cost operations, f**k ups they survived, its adoption in companies, and modern FinOps...
Published 07/01/22
Carge is the first e-Mobility Service Provider that helps EV drivers to seek, book, plug & pay at all charging stations throughout Europe - by using smart algorithms for grid balancing. Vlad Birsan and Dominik Hašek had a nice chat with founders Eleftherios Karabatsakis (CEO) and Peter Benos (CTO) about electromobility and its marketplace, cloud technology connection, and their amazing solution for charging pain points for all drivers across Europe.
Sorry about the sound quality, the...
Published 06/22/22
Roland Meertens is Machine Learning Engineer at Annotell, the company whose mission is to make safe perception possible. Their software platform and teams make it possible to get the right data to develop and validate autonomous cars' safe perception systems. As he says, he builds self-driving cars and makes robots, he can even make an IKEA table autonomous! What is the process to make a thing autonomous? What does he think about the nearest future of technology? And where does cloud...
Published 05/18/22
Jan works as a CTO at Showmax and DStv. Both are huge and very successful subscription video-on-demand services in sub-Saharan Africa under the MultiChoice brand. Fergus and Matej asked about the work style in engineering teams, about life in the company, and of course, they talked about cloud and technical challenges Showmax has. Which cloud provider do they use and why? What is the main difference between Europe and Africa in terms of technology? What about security challenges? Listen to...
Published 05/06/22
Matúš Kocka is a cycling enthusiast and Infrastructure Team Lead & Senior DevOps Engineer at ROUVY, a globally famous application that allows you to bring the cycling experience of Alpine climbs into your home. ROUVY, based in Vimperk (a little Czech town in mountains), offers unique software for indoor cycling that uses virtual reality to bring real cycling routes. Rouvy app runs on Google Cloud for a long time now and their infrastructure team is very experienced in the GCP environment....
Published 03/31/22
Arpad Kun, VP of Engineering and Infrastructure at Bitrise, talk about cloud strategy, company culture and new challenges in the world of mobile apps and DevOps. Bitrise is a full-featured mobile CI/CD in the cloud. They create an end-to-end platform for mobile development that automates core workflows, shortens release cycles and provides a better understanding of how new pieces of code will affect live apps before their release. Why do Bitrise use the multi-cloud strategy and how do they...
Published 02/03/22
Piotr Marczyszyn (Director of Engineering) & Marek Brach (CTO) work at Miinto Group - one of Europe’s largest e-commerce fashion platforms with more than 5000 brands and a presence in 13 different markets. We talked about leadership, remote work and the IT stack they have at Miinto Group. How do they deal with the complexity of the technical environment in a huge company with teams in many countries? How do they support company culture and employees? Is the public cloud a solution for...
Published 12/14/21
Stanislav "Stano" Komanec, VP of Engineering at Kiwi.com, created and currently manages the Platform team in the hyper-growing travel platform. Stano describes cloud technology challenges they face in Kiwi, why they use cloud and how exactly. What "comes" next in terms of using the cloud? How do Kiwi manage an enormous data stream? Why do they want to go global with cloud infrastructure? Listen to what Stano thinks about cloud in the travel industry.
Published 11/19/21
Lukáš Hurych (Chief Portfolio Officer) and Viktor Stískala (CTO) from ‘buy-now-pay-later’ platform Twisto talk about FinTech industry, cloud technology, product and people challenges in the fast-growing startup. How do they handle cloud infrastructure? Is it possible to stay "punk", keep an agile mindset, handle millions of payment transactions and successfully grow? Listen to what Lukáš and Viktor have to say about work-life balance, leadership, and a new era with Australian fintech company...
Published 11/08/21
Mitja Kravos, CTO at Login5 Foundation (and ex-GM at Outfit7) describes how to build a data-driven framework of sustainable and ecological farming on a big scale. Mitja talks about his experience in the gaming company Outfit7 famous for its Talking Tom Cat and about its fascinating connection with Login5 Foundation focused on eco topics and planet Earth. He talks about how important are data for farmers, for the future of our planet and how is his team leveraging available data on the public...
Published 10/20/21
Denis Širokii, Founder and Managing Director at Apifonica, talks about his experience in entrepreneurship and the mission of the company, which provide tailored voice and messaging solutions for communication between a business and its customers. Vlad Birsan and Kristjan Jõgiste ask Denis, how they use the public cloud, what are his experiences with cloud solutions and what is Dzinga. Listen to what Denis thinks about communication services, Apifonica's future infrastructure projects and much...
Published 10/07/21
Fergus O'Callaghan had the honour of interviewing Alen Krmelj, who works for Bitstamp as their Infrastructure team lead. Bitstamp is the oldest digital asset exchange and facilitates trading between fiat currency, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
They talked about the future of digital assets, decentralised finance, DevOps culture and of course cloud technologies and the importance it has played in helping Bitstamp scale securely. Listen to what Alen thinks about crypto winters, who he...
Published 09/23/21
Jiri Manas is an innovative IT guy, disruptive and inspirational team leader, longevity enthusiast, CTO at Tesco CE and ex-CIO in Home Credit Vietnam. He speaks about disrupt leadership in IT, discovering the potential of a human body with technology, possibilities of blockchain, and about the best way how to implement new technologies and tools in big corporations.
Published 07/20/21
Ravi Ramos (gaming SW engineer in Ubisoft, expert in ML/AI and Bioinformatics) speaks about trends, possibilities and limits of AI/ML and data science with Erik Ferencz (Google Cloud Developer, full-stack engineer, Revolgy). Ravi shares his impressive professional experience in the gaming industry, cloud technology, science and the way from Brazil to Brno, Czechia. Ravi is a real expert in ML/AI, so enjoy technical deep dive!
Published 05/14/21
Anthony Rouillot, CTO at Adcash, talks about moving to Estonia, DevOps culture, legacy systems, and why is necessary to think about code, apps and company culture in a holistic way. Listen to what he thinks about the cloud, innovation and challenges in his team, and many more.
Published 04/22/21
What hacking and cloud security have in common? Marek Šottl, hackitect (and ethical hacker) contemplate about security of the public cloud, shared responsibility model, hacking games and much more with Erik Ferencz, Google Cloud Developer and full stack engineer. Technical deep dive included!
Published 02/24/21