Bits and Bolts With Paulina

Bits & Bolts with Paulina dives into the nuts and bolts of cloud, DevOps, and the future of technology. Each episode brings candid conversations with industry leaders, uncovering how they build trust in data, adopt AI responsibly, and design platforms that truly scale. Whether you are an engineer, product leader, or tech enthusiast, you will find practical insights and bold ideas to help you navigate today’s fast-moving digital world!

Bits and Bolts With Paulina is a technology podcast hosted by Paulina Dubas, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Paulina Dubas hosts Bits and Bolts With Paulina, a technology show with 17 episodes published.

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  Ex-Bitpanda CPTO on the FinTech growth trap that kills startups

  Aug 2, 202650 min

  Victor Tuson Palau, 3x unicorn CTO and former CPTO at Bitpanda, joins Paulina to explain why nearly every successful startup runs on a monolith, why shipping more features doesn't always mean more revenue, and why it took a regulator to force financial companies to guarantee their systems actually work. They also dig into why scaling a fintech is a different beast entirely from scaling a typical SaaS company, from fragmented payment rails across Europe to the chaos of proving your address in different countries.

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  Google's DORA Lead on AI : I wouldn't trust AI that much

  Jul 11, 202650 min

  Google's DORA team just found something counterintuitive: 90% of developers now use AI daily, and most feel more productive. But at the team level, deployment instability is increasing. In this episode, Nathen Harvey, Head of DORA at Google Cloud, joins Paulina to unpack why AI amplifies both the best and worst parts of your engineering systems. They cover the hidden "verification tax" of AI-generated code, why only 4% of developers say they trust AI's output "a great deal," the J-curve every team hits before AI adoption actually pays off, and why cutting junior engineers today could mean no senior engineers in ten years.

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  $25M lost per year & the vendor contract gap with VendorTel CEO Steen Blicher

  Jun 27, 202642 min

  Most companies think their vendor contracts are under control. They're not. Steen Steensen Blicher, CEO and co-founder of VendorTel, breaks down the silent financial leak hiding in plain sight. 2 to 5% of total supplier spend lost every year because nobody connects contract terms to real transaction data. In this episode: why a signed contract is not the same as earned money, how AI unlocks vendor management without replacing the human decisions that matter, and the one 30-minute audit every procurement team should run this week.

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  Paul Bates on almost 90% AI is Automation | Developers still matter | Cutting Cloud Costs by 90%?

  May 30, 202648 minS0

  <p>How much of the AI boom is real?</p><p>Paul Bates, co-founder and Director at Uptiq, spent over two decades in tech and he's cutting through the hype. In this episode we get into why 70-90% of "AI" projects are really just automation, how companies are slashing cloud costs by 90% through app modernization, and why private AI models are becoming the enterprise default.</p><p>We also talk about scaling a tech services business, data sovereignty, the hidden costs nobody plans for, and why trust is the only thing that actually closes deals in consulting.</p><p>Practical...

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  Anemari Fiser on how to transition from software engineer to tech lead in 2026

  May 18, 202652 minS0

  <p>In this episode, Anemari Fiser (former Tech Lead, Product Director, and author of the O'Reilly book Level Up as a Tech Lead) shares what it really takes to succeed in tech leadership.</p><p>From burnout at ThoughtWorks to building her own coaching business, Anemari reveals why most problems in tech are people problems, not technical ones, and why soft skills and feedback are the true game-changers for Tech Leads.</p><p>Whether you're aspiring to become a Tech Lead or looking to level up in your current role, this conversation is packed with practical insights on leadership, team...

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