Interviews Geneva Brooks
On Friday, September 20th, Honeypot is joining Greta Thunberg’s global climate strike. As a developer-focused job platform, we are keenly aware of the role that technology plays in our lives and in our world. When it comes to climate change, tech (and more specifically the developer community) provides some of our greatest hopes for lessening humanity’s overall impact.
In preparation for the strike, we spoke with two Honeypot clients, tado° and Lana Labs, about their thoughts on tech and climate change. Environmental activism may not be the first thing that jumps to mind when you hear home heating or process mining–but perhaps it should be. These two forward-thinking companies show that there are many ways to use our modern tools to make a positive difference. Read on to find out how they do it!
Interviews Emma Tracey
At Honeypot, we are committed to actively promoting women in tech. Our 2018 Women in Tech Research Report revealed how far we, as an industry, still have to go. But small, consistent steps lead to big change. To celebrate International Women’s Day we asked several of members of our team to tell their personal story. Be it in Talent or Customer Management, Marketing, Product or Data, the women featured here are creating impact and showing the power of a diverse workforce.
Interviews Hunter Wright
About a month ago, Cologne hosted it’s annual Pirate Summit, also known as “Europe’s Craziest Startup Conference”. This unique conference hosted more than 650 founders, 200 investors, attendees from over 70+ countries, and a fire-breathing mechanical horse:
Interviews Jelle Groot
Blendle aggregates articles into a single, ad-free platform where readers can pick and choose which stories to read. We interviewed Blendle’s CTO Jean Mertz and talked about how the Utrecht-based tech startup combines journalism and technology, how they maintain a polyglot development environment and why it’s so fun to work there as a developer.
Interviews Jelle Groot
Dutch tech company Bynder began life as a side project in a web agency. The difficulty of image-transfer led the founders to develop their own digital asset management software, which today is used by more than 150,000 brand managers, marketers and creatives globally. We talk to Bynder CTO, Roland Keijzer about their modern tech stack and the joys of having offices in three of Europe’s coolest cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Barcelona.
Interviews Frederik Bohn
Kerry Wu is Senior Tech Industry Analyst at CB Insights, a technology market intelligence platform. Kerry leads CB Insights’ autotech newsletter and mobility research, tracking startup developments, investments, and emerging business models across the automotive, transportation, and logistics industries. In this interview, Kerry talks to Honeypot about the state of AutoTech in America and Germany and what strategies large automakers are employing to attract software developers.
Interviews Kado Damball
It is beyond doubt that 3D printing technology is revolutionary with regards to its applications. From science research to open source prosthetics, nearly every industry is finding useful ways to utilize the technology. We interviewed developers from 3D Hubs, one of the leading 3D printing companies in the Netherlands, based in Amsterdam.
Interviews Emma Tracey
“I am a curious developer. I like to understand what’s going on in the libraries and frameworks that I use,” says Shuhei Kagawa, a full stack developer from Tokyo who recently moved to Berlin after finding a job through Honeypot. “I think it’s very important when you try to solve problems. Otherwise you’ll keep shooting in the dark. Also, I like to try new technologies. That’s why I am working in the ever-changing world of JavaScript.”
Interviews Frederik Bohn
Scout24 operates leading digital classified platforms, including AutoScout24 and ImmobilienScout24, in Germany and other selected European countries. We talked to Luiz Scheidegger, Head of Technology - Core Experience, and Boris Danne, Business Development Manager, from AutoScout24. They filled us startup life, the demand for software developers in Munich and how it feels to be part of one of city’s biggest tech successes.
Interviews Hugo Duksis
Andy Smith is CTO at Wercker, an Amsterdam-based tech company providing a continuous delivery system using containers. Andy joined Wercker two and half years ago and oversaw the transition of the platform from LXC to Docker. When hiring developers, Andy pays special tribute to open source contributions, valuing a broad
portfolio of open source projects.
Interviews Kathrine Nicolaisen
Faced with the closure of his previous startup, Nico Ulbricht began searching for new job opportunities in Berlin and came across Honeypot. Following a call and a code review, Nico became visible to companies on Honeypot:
Interviews Kado Damball
Harry Roberts is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect who helps organisations and teams across the globe to plan, build, and maintain product-scale UIs. A Google Developer Expert, he writes on the subjects of CSS architecture, performance, and scalability at csswizardry.com; develops and maintains inuitcss; authored CSS Guidelines; and Tweets at @csswizardry.
Interviews Emma Tracey
Cees van Dok is Head of UX Design at TomTom, a global leader in navigation and mapping products. Cees is passionate about the possibilities of design and UI. He talks to Honeypot about trends in UI design, his role in TomTom’s navigation UI redesign and the many options available for developers in Amsterdam.
Interviews Kathrine Nicolaisen
Michael Kugele has been involved in the Berlin startup scene for more than 15 years, joining as a developer in the early days of both Rocket Internet and Project A Ventures. Today Kugele is CTO at Nu3, where he is responsible for a team of 10 developers, 6 quality assurance engineers and 4 product managers.
Interviews Fabio Migliorini
Enrico Zimuel is an Italian open source developer working on the Zend Framework and Apigility projects. He is a TEDx speaker, an author, a blogger and a big fan of PHP 7. We chat to him about life as an open-source developer and his feelings on the future of PHP.
Interviews Sasha Pliusnina
Two topics which always capture the attention of the IT-community are the future of programming languages and diversity in tech. We decided to combine these two areas, and asked some awesome female developers about their opinion on the future of programming.
Let’s see what they had to say…
Interviews Emma Tracey
Peter Loveday became CTO of zanox, Europe’s largest affiliate marketing network, in 2014. With the new role he inherited two tightly coupled legacy platforms - one built on Java, one on PHP. With his distributed team of 60 engineers, he is simplifying the technology by focusing future development around one platform and then separating the system into distinct services. Loveday’s approach to engineering culture is about facilitation, pragmatism and a healthy skepticism of buzzwords.
Interviews Emma Tracey
If anyone knows what it takes to build a successful startup in Hamburg, it’s Stephan Uhrenbacher, CEO and now Founder of FLIO - the global airport app. Uhrenbacher previously founded Qype, Europe’s largest local review site. He sold it to Yelp in 2012 for €50 million and has since founded short term lettings platform 9flats.com and Germany’s leading eco market place avocadostore.de.
Interviews Emma Tracey
Ubilabs are specialists in interactive map applications. The Hamburg-based company is continuously pushing the boundaries, from mapping Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan to creating a Street View of the world’s largest model railway. At the technical helm is Martin Kleppe, Head of Development and a passionate developer and active member of JS community.
Interviews Emma Tracey
Community Devs is a series of interviews with developers working in Europe’s startup hubs. Our first interview is with Oleg Ilyenko, a Scala developer based in Berlin. He is creator of Sangria, a Scala GraphQL Implementation. Honeypot will be hosting a GraphQL meetup on May 11th.
Interviews Emma Tracey
Onefootball provides live scores, news, statistics, videos and live audio broadcasts to football fans in more than 200 countries.We sat down with Grzegorz Krumpholz, the CTO of Onefootball to discuss microservices, migrating to Golang, Wisła Kraków and preparing for the surge in users during the 2016 Euro Championships.
Interviews Emma Tracey
After a busy and enjoyable HRinTech event at Zalando last week, Honeypot hit the bar.* *And the light reminded him of the American realist painter and printmaker, Edward Hopper. We can’t disagree with Honeypot on this point…
Interviews Emma Tracey
Mail.Ru launched in 1998 and today is the largest email service in Russia. As of October 2015, it had 62.6 million monthly users. The email service delivers 600 million messages per day and has a data storage of over 30 petabytes. At Highload 2015, we sat down and chatted to Dennis Anikin, the Director of Engineering of Cloud and Email Service. He told us about Mail.Ru’s plans to migrate their email service and the advantages of Tarnatool, their open-source NoSQL database management system.
Interviews Emma Tracey
Christian Rebernik is CTO of Number26. Prior to joining Germany’s first digital bank, he was CTO at Zanox and Parship. We met Christian at the Data Natives conference in Berlin and discussed Number26’s tech stack, why its easy to attract developers to FinTech and the company’s plans for new features.
Interviews Emma Tracey
According to Kevin Goldsmith, VP of Engineering at Spotify, the Swedish music-streaming mammoth’s success all comes down to its team culture. We sat down with the Carnegie-Mellon educated, Chicago-native at MobiConf Krakow. Over a weak coffee and prior to a strong vodka, he told us all about the fine balance between autonomy and chaos, preserving start-up culture in a large organizations, his escape from Microsoft and why failure is all part and parcel of the life of a continuous improvement organization.