Episodes

  • Proactive Ownership & Leadership at Scale
    Jun 12 2025

    How do great engineers grow into great leaders?

    Nik Zavgorodniy, Head of Engineering at Mutinex, joins us to talk career ownership, why onboarding is a secret weapon and how leadership evolves as startups scale.

    Packed with practical takeaways for ambitious engineers.

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    35 mins
  • Keeping Everyone on the Same Page: Decision-Making in Cross-Functional Teams
    May 29 2025

    We’re joined by Simon O’Connor from Tikpay to explore leading from scratch, navigating cross-functional teams and choosing the right tech stack.


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    39 mins
  • Nurturing Career Growth & Keeping in Touch With Code​
    May 13 2025

    This week on Decoding Careers, we’re joined by Guillaume Renoult to explore how leaders can help others grow into strong leaders themselves. We’ll dive into the role of vulnerability and a learning mindset in leadership.​

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    37 mins
  • Hiring in Tech Leadership & Context Switching
    Apr 2 2025

    This week, we are joined by Alex Taylor, Global Head of Emerging Technologies at QBE Ventures. Alex gives us a different perspective on leadership. With experience in Venture Capital, Alex has witnessed different types of leadership and practices that really make or break startups. We talk roles in startups, from hiring for it and defining it. Moreover, we talk about context switching — a topic we haven’t really touched on in our podcast.​

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    43 mins
  • Authentic Leadership && Role of Community
    Mar 19 2025

    This week, we’re joined by Rebecca, CTO at Australasian Progressive Group. Rebecca gives us great advice on how to find your voice and who you are as a leader, and how communities have helped her become a better leader.​

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    36 mins
  • Vision Driven Product Teams && Stepping Back to Step Up
    Mar 3 2025

    This week, we’re joined by Hugo, CTO at Budgetly. We sit down and talk about what being a co-founder and CTO for a startup entails, and the role of vision in creating strong product decisions — and how leaders champion that.​

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    37 mins
  • Navigating Technical Challenges && Ambient Knowledge
    Feb 24 2025

    Welcome to season three of Decoding Careers. In today’s episode, we sit down with Ming Quah, CTO and part of the founding team at Graceview. Ming shares his experience as taking on the role as CTO for a startup, continuous learning through ambient knowledge, and understanding the role of passion in leadership.


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    36 mins
  • Zehua Liu: Carving Your Career Path & Startup Leadership
    Jan 28 2025

    In this week's episode, we sit down with Zehua Liu, Head of Engineer at Veridooh. We discuss navigating various careers in tech and leadership in Startups. Additionally, Zehua gives advice to those feeling pressured to go into leadership.


    This wraps up our second season of Decoding Careers. We are continuously trying to improve the show! Stay tuned for some major updates.


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    48 mins