Techruiter is a Talent Consultancy advising and delivering growth programmes to some of the most impactful startups and scaleups in the technology sector. TTT is a podcast series by Techruiter, where we talk with influential Technology and Product Leaders. These are long-form discussions, where we…
Episode 2 - Richard Gale speaks to Aaron McKee, a CS graduate from Berkeley, and one of the first engineers to implement semantic web search using Lucene/SolR at Ask Jeeves in 2006. McKee then went on to run Engineering for Skimlinks and Quantast; a global leader of analysing Audiences using AI. Currently CTO of Blis, world leaders in Geo-location Ad Tech. Topics of discussion include ad tech, data science, and hiring great engineers. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introductions 1:15 - Aaron's background as a software engineer and a Berkeley graduate 8:43 - Ask.com, and how to solve search problems before machine learning 12:17 - Moving to London 13:36 - Struq and Ad Tech 18:45 - Blis 22:49 - The future of Ad Tech, challenges, and regulation 29:02 - The data science industry 32:55 - Deep learning in industry 39:11 - Hiring great engineers 49:09 - Advice to your former self
E001: Shjeel Ahmed is speaking to Christian Miccio, senior product leader (ex-Google, Shazam) on range of topics; Product Management / Product Owners, how Google fostered a culture of innovation, and much more. This is the first episode of Techruiter's podcast series. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction to TTT and Christian Miccio's career journey 5:18 - Shazam, and working for startups 13:05 - Product Management 26:54 - Google 32:41 - Christian's current project Connect with Shjeel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shjeelahmed/ Connect with Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmiccio/