After moving to Australia from Israel, Nadav Yogev noticed a deficiency of leadership in the technology industry. That leadership gap is therefore an opportunity for IT professionals to exploit with the right attitude and aptitude.  Nadav Yogev is the CTO of Blueberry Markets, a globally regulated forex broker providing access to trading instruments to thousands of traders. Nadav explains to host Sam Yates his own journey into technology, which started with the Israeli IT industry; and...

Vinny Lawrenson-Woods is a people-first technology leader specialising in engineering and product delivery in start-up and enterprise-level organisations. He’s scaled and coached large local and globally distributed engineering teams across the UK, USA and Australia. Since his move to Sydney in 2013, Vinny has led large engineering teams at Vodafone, Qantas and Atlassian before moving to Prezzee as the VP of Product Engineering, leading the global Engineering & Delivery function at the...

Gita Charan is a highly experienced technologist, with a diverse career. Born in Fiji and educated in New Zealand, her career has taken her across the south Pacific and various roles in the technology industry. Gita’s recognised as a skilled leader and she believes in providing the right support to enable people to grow and reach their full potential. The combination of technical skills, attitude, and team work, she says will get you a long way in a career in tech. The most important quality...

Ricky McAlister is a technology leader with a passion for crafting robust technical solutions and building high performing, collaborative teams. He is fascinated by both the technical aspect of software engineering and the psychology of leading and managing people. Currently, Ricky is the Head of Engineering at Shift. The company looks to him and his engineering teams to deliver value to customers by ensuring finance on demand. This is made possible through a focus on strong in-house...

Robert Love is currently the CTO of Q-CTRL, Australia's first venture-capital-backed quantum technology startup, and is responsible for leading Q-CTRL's Engineering teams, and delivering value to customers by ensuring scientific R&D translates to product development. Having recently celebrated its fifth birthday, Q-CTRL is focused on accelerating the pathway to quantum advantage by delivering intelligent infrastructure software to correct errors, autonomously stabilize hardware, and build...

Simon Litchfield is a highly accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in the software engineering industry. With a successful career that spans over two decades, he has worked with a wide range of companies, from start-ups to large corporations.  Simon discusses with host Sam Yates his career progression and how he’s currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer at Nano, previously their founding CTO. Nano began at the beginning of the pandemic, and built the world’s first...

Decoding Careers is a new podcast to help software engineers transition into a leadership role. Hosted by Sam Yates, you’ll hear directly from engineering leaders who have themselves successfully transitioned to their current roles, you’ll discover what they did and the challenges they faced to get there.  Decoding Careers is proudly brought to you by Discovered People, a recruitment agency matching ambitious companies with software engineers.   You can listen to Decoding Careers on Apple...