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Decoding Careers

Decoding Careers

Hosted by Sam Yates

Episodes

45

Latest episode

Jun 2025

Language

EN-AU

About the show

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. Discovered People https://discoveredpeople.com.au/

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June 12, 202535 min

Proactive Ownership & Leadership at Scale

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.📩 Subscribe to The Knowledge Base — our newsletter for career-minded devs: https://decodingcareers.substack.com/

May 29, 202538 min

Keeping Everyone on the Same Page: Decision-Making in Cross-Functional Teams

We’re joined by Simon O’Connor from Tikpay to explore leading from scratch, navigating cross-functional teams and choosing the right tech stack.📩 Subscribe to The Knowledge Base — our Decoding Careers newsletter: https://decodingcareers.substack.com/

May 13, 202536 min

Nurturing Career Growth & Keeping in Touch With Code​

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.​📩 Subscribe to our newsletter — The Knowledge Base by Decoding Careers: https://decodingcareers.substack.com/

April 2, 202542 min

Hiring in Tech Leadership  & Context Switching

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.​​📩 Subscribe to our newsletter — The Knowledge Base by Decoding Careers: https://decodingcareers.substack.com/

March 19, 202536 min

Authentic Leadership && Role of Community

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.​​📩 Subscribe to our newsletter — The Knowledge Base by Decoding Careers: https://decodingcareers.substack.com/​

March 3, 202536 min

Vision Driven Product Teams && Stepping Back to Step Up

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.​

February 24, 202536 min

Navigating Technical Challenges && Ambient Knowledge

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.

January 28, 2025Episode 848 min

Zehua Liu: Carving Your Career Path & Startup Leadership

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. In the meantime, don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn and subscribe to our newsletter. We'll see you soon!

January 20, 2025Episode 733 min

Ameya Bhurke: Award-Winning Teams & Embracing the Unknown

In today’s episode, we sit down with Ameya Bhurke, Head of Engineering at Athena Home Loans. We dive into the leadership strategies that earned him and his team ‘Leader of the Year’ and ‘Team of the Year’ respectively. Ameya shares his approach to mentoring the next generation of leaders and offers advice on how to be comfortable with uncertainty.

January 6, 2025Episode 641 min

Dinesh Reddy: Cutting Through The Noise & Effective Task Delegation

This week at Decoding Careers, we chat with Dinesh about how engineers can stand out and stay ahead of the curve, building trust as a leader, and what it takes to cut through the noise as an engineer.

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