Map for Engineers Podcast

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Map for Engineers Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Vitalii Lakusta, with 10 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.

Vitalii Lakusta hosts Map for Engineers Podcast, a technology show with 10 episodes published.

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  On Product Engineering from Alvar, early Wiser | Ep. 9 with Alvar Lumberg

  Aug 15, 20251h 16mS0

  <p>Alvar Lumberg needs no introduction in Estonia in startup circles: Alvar is a seasoned engineering leader who built Wise from the early days, then founded Grünfin, and now is transforming investing at Lightyear. We chatted with Alvar on his engineering journey, and discussed ideas on product engineering, building startups, and building great teams.</p><p>Here is what we talked about: </p><p>00:00:00 - Intro</p><p>00:00:05 - Welcome & Guest Introduction</p><p>00:00:33 - Alvar's Early Exposure to Computers and Coding</p><p>00:03:38 - First Steps into the Tech Industry</p><p>00:05:05 - Growth and Learning at Hansa B...

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  On Design | Ep. 8 with Janne Kaasalainen

  Aug 12, 20251h 15mS0

  <p>In this episode, we sit down with veteran designer Janne Kaasalainen for an in-depth discussion on the art and science of UX design.</p><p>00:00:05 - Intro</p><p>00:00:35 - Janne's introduction</p><p>00:01:12 - Janne's career start and moving to UX</p><p>00:03:37 - Pivotal moments in Janne's career</p><p>00:06:40 - Misconceptions about design and UX</p><p>00:12:20 - How should engineers, designers, and PMs collaborate?</p><p>00:21:54 - Working effectively with designers</p><p>00:28:42 - What other UX misunderstandings do people have?</p><p>00:31:07 - How does a company align on what is "good"?</p><p>00:44:18...

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  AI Agents for Software Engineers. Claude Code Deep Dive | Ep. 7 with Carl Rannaberg

  Aug 1, 20251h 56mS0

  <p>Carl and I talked deeply about CLI-based AI agents, specifically Claude Code, how CLI AI agents are more composable than IDE-based agents like Cursor, spec-driven development, making codebases agent-native, and, last but not least, which skills should we hone as software engineers, because our profession is not going anywhere, but we need to adapt. Super interesting conversation, hope you enjoy!</p><p>Oh, and if you want to work together with Carl and me, we are hiring in Pactum, feel free to check out https://pactum.com/careers/</p><p>00:00:00 Introduction & Current Coding Workflow 00:10:40 Junior vs Senior Engineers with...

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  Dmytro Hnatiuk: Scaling Journey of Finance Engineering in Wise | Ep. 6

  Feb 16, 20251h 36mS0

  <p>I really enjoyed this discussion. I hope you find some useful bits for yourself as well. Chapters are manually annotated by me for you to be able to navigate and jump around. Thanks for listening to Map for Engineers!</p><p>00:00:00 - Start</p><p>00:01:01 - Dmytro's background</p><p>00:13:50 - Early days of finance team in Wise</p><p>00:19:36 - Becoming lead in the finance team</p><p>00:21:19 - Squad o fteams, tribe of squads: splitting finance into subdomains</p><p>00:27:42 - Conway law: team splits reflecting architecture</p><p>00:32:56 - Event-driven architecture</p><p>00:34:51 - Context on...

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  Anton Keks: Problems in Software Engineering - PRs, Microservices, Testing, Refactoring | Ep. 5

  Nov 4, 20241h 2mS0

  <p>Anton, co-founder of Codeborne, and I sit together to discuss some of the problems in software engineering - pull requests, microservices, testing, refactoring. Check out annotated chapters below for more details.</p><p>00:00:00 Intro</p><p>00:00:00 Sneak peek</p><p>00:00:49 Episode overview</p><p>00:04:28 Anton's intro, background</p><p>00:06:37 Anton founded Codeborne: TDD and pair programming: following extreme programming principles</p><p>00:08:57 Agile is about short feedback loops</p><p>00:12:09 Under-engineering vs over-engineering</p><p>00:15:29 Tech debt and testing: engineers don't handle tech debt well enough</p><p>00:17:45 Lack of refactoring is a big problem</p><p>00:18:14 Problems with...

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