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The Reconfigured Podcast is a show that explores the intersection of technology, culture, and society which is hosted by Mohamad Kalaaji (technolaaji). We bring professionals to talk about their extended experience or discuss about a topic that might be interesting. All of our episodes are available for free to the general public at no additional cost
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Today's episode is with Yan Cui, Principle consultant at TheBurningMonk Limited. We have covered several topics related to serverless in terms of adoption, architecture, security, tooling and frameworks, testing and monitoring, and much more Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Background 02:54 Running a Consultancy Company 07:59 Self-Publishing vs. Wo…
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#26 - Christophe Zoghbi: AI Education in MENA
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Today's episode is with Christophe Zoghbi, founder at Zaka AI and Beirut AI. We have covered several topics related to AI from its impact on daily activities, trends, challenges and bias regarding AI, and much more00:00 Intro00:23 Christophe's intro00:57 Christophe's journey into the world of AI06:32 Challenges educating in the AI space12:00 Signif…
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#25 - Patrick Samy: Reaching your peak performance
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Today's episode is with Patrick Samy. Patrick is currently working on Peak (https://www.joinpeak.co/), co-founder and CEO of Span (acquired by Eight Sleep). We have talked about several topics from working in big corps, starting your own company, providing market fit, and much more 00:00 Intro00:23 Patrick Intro01:08 Peak 09:57 Span (from start til…
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#24 - Shane Afsar: how to be an effective engineering manager
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Today's episode is with Shane Afsar, Senior Engineering Manager at Algolia. We have talked about several topics including engineering management, remote team management, dealing with legacy systems, getting involved in the business of things, how to know if someone fits your team, and much more 00:00 Intro 00:41 Shane's intro 01:05 Shane's role at …
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#23 - Fadi Boulos: Hiring right and supporting local in companies
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Today's episode is with Fadi Boulous, founder and CEO of Supportful. We have discussed several topics from supporting local talent, decreasing the brain drain, supporting companies efficiently, dealing with remote teams, hiring the right talent, and much more 00:00 Intro 00:44 Fadi's intro 01:13 Fadi's journey switching from academia to entrepreneu…
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#22- Jonathan Gottfried: empowering hackers, launching impactful hackathons
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Today's episode is with Jonathan Gottfried, co-founder of Major League Hacking (MLH). We have discussed several topics from organizing hackathons to fostering diverse events and building the next generation 00:00 Intro 00:41 Jon's intro 00:51 Rewarding aspect of building and growing MLH over the years 02:19 MLH's role of documenting stories of stud…
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#21 - Karl Swanepoel: empowering freelancers, building impactful startups
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Today's episode is with Karl Swanepoel, CEO of Revolancer. We have discussed multiple topics ranging from how freelancer websites are doing things wrong, how Revolancer empowers freelancers, starting your own business, connecting with the right people, and much more! 00:00 Intro 00:42 Karl's introduction 01:00 What is Revolancer and what they offer…
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#20 - Jillian Funes: from software development to product management
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Today's episode is with Jillian Funes, Technical product manager at Canopy Servicings. We have discussed several topics from how to get into product management, transitioning from software development to product management, difference between project management and product management, and much more! 00:00 Intro 00:42 Jillian Intro 00:55 What is Can…
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#19 - Liz Acosta: Skyflow, Twilio, From coding bootcamp to Dev Advocacy
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Today's episode is with Liz Acosta, Developer Advocate at Skyflow. We have discussed several topics from how to get into developer advocacy, getting into a bootcamp from a non-tech background, and much more. 00:00 Intro 00:42 Liz's introduction 01:49 Liz's current position at Skyflow 03:50 What Skyflow offers 05:44 Use case of handling something on…
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#18 - Wesley Faulkner: AWS, Community Management, DevRel
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Today's episode is with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS. We have discussed several topics ranging from community management, community ops, becoming a devrel, and much more! (0:00) Podcast intro (0:41) Wesley's intro (1:19) Being a 1st generation American (3:33) Role of a Community Manager at AWS (7:36) Being a board member at The …
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#17 - Tiffany Jachja: Engineering Management, Career Coaching
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Today's episode is with Tiffany Jachja, Engineering Manager at Vox News and Career Success Coach at Correlation One. We have discussed the following: - What is the role of a Career Success Coach - What is the role of an Engineering Manager - Difference between Engineering Manager and other roles like Tech Lead - The role and responsibilities of bei…
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#16 - Karl Hughes: Draft.dev, Writing, CTO, Content Marketing
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Today's episode is with Karl Hughes, Founder and CEO of Draft.dev. We have discussed the following: - What Draft provide - Marketing content with a content marketing engine - His adventures of being a CTO - Difference between Tech Lead and Head of Engineering - The feeling of being the first employee twice in two different startups - and much more …
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Podcast rebranding + announcement of two projects
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This episode is not a guest episode, it is just an announcement about the rebranding of the podcast (nothing major, it became part of a project) plus the announcement of two projects that I am working on which is the "Reconfigured" branding and my own startup that I am going to launch in the future
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#15 - Alexandra-Irina Nicolae: Product Management, Ideas, Axel Springer
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Today's episode is with Alexandra-Irina Nicolae, Senior Product Owner at Axel Springer. We have discussed the following: - What Axel Springer is - What Axel Springer offers - What is Product Ownership - Her shift from English and History and Academia towards Product Management as Product Owner - The Ideas Engineering Division at Axel Springer - The…
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#14 - Virginia Zuloaga: Digital Marketing, B2B, Mentoring
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Today's episode is with Virginia Zuloaga, Founder of Brieffin Consulting and Co-Founder of CreaGeen. We have discussed the following topics: - Being a Career Mentor at Westminster University - What Brieffin offer when it comes to digital marketing - How Virginia cooperate with her co-founder digitally while she never met her co-founder in person - …
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#13 - Eddie Hinkle: Management, Glassdoor, Empathy | The Reconfigured Podcast
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Today's episode is with Eddie Hinkle, Engineering Manager of the Design Systems & Front-End Foundations Team at Glassdoor and host of the WebJoy Podcast. We have discussed the following: - What Glassdoor provides - Role of an Engineering Manager - Frontend Foundations and management - User Experience - People management in small and big teams - His…
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#12 - Jason St-Cyr: Developer Relations, Advocacy, Sitecore | The Reconfigured Podcast
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Today’s episode is with Jason St-Cyr, Director of Developer Relations at Sitecore. In this episode we have discussed the following: What is Sitecore and what it offers Role of a Director of Developer Relations What is Developer Relations all about Similarities and differences between Developer Relations, Advocacy, Technical Evangelism Being a Solut…
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#11 - Dan Moore: Developer Relation, CTO, Founder | The Reconfigured Podcast
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Today’s episode is with Dan Moore, Head of Developer Relations at FusionAuth and author of the book “Letters to a New Developer” which is published by Apress . In this episode we have discussed the following: What is FusionAuth and what it offers Difference between implementing your own auth and using an existing service Role of a Solutions Archite…
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#10 - Luciano Mammino: Senior Architect, CTO, Writer, Speaker
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Today’s episode is with Luciano Mammino, Senior Architect at fourTheorem and co-author of the well known book “Nodejs Design Patterns” that is published by Packt. In this episode we have discussed the following: What fourTheorem offers (and why they chose AWS as cloud provider of choice) Transitioning from just writing code to adopting the cloud Ch…
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#9 - Jackson Gabbard: CTO, Facebook, Refactorer, and Mentor
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Today’s episode is with Jackson Gabbard, CTO at Cord and ex-Facebook employee who started the engineering team for Facebook in the UK. In this episode we have discussed the follow: What Cord offers Requirements for someone to be qualified as a CTO Challenges coordinating a team of developers Refactoring code and real life examples of refactoring in…
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#8 - Rawad Assaf: Founder, CTO, Mentor, and Clojure | The Reconfigured Podcast
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Today’s episode is with Rawad Assaf, Founding Partner at RAMS services and CTO of UK Tech Hub Lebanon. In this episode we have discussed the following topics: What RAMS offers When it is time to start your own business Picking the right partners for your startup Why RAMS chose Clojure as programming language of choice Common issues startups faced w…
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#7 - William Collins: Cloud Architect, Multi Cloud, and Automation | The Reconfigured Podcast
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Today’s episode is with William Collins, Principal Cloud Architect at Alkira. In this episode we have discussed the following: His role at Alkira Multi Cloud connections and how Alkira provides a reliable solution Multi Cloud in companies that adopt a one cloud provider When to use a monolith and when to use micro services Hybrid Cloud and how it o…
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#6 - Sean Falconer: Developer Relation, CTO, Founder, ex-Google, and more | The Reconfigured Podcast
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Today’s episode is with Sean Falconer, head of developer relations at Skyflow. In this episode we have discussed the following: His role as Head of Developer at Skyflow What Skyflow offers and how it can impact businesses on a large scale His adventures at Google The benefits Google provides to its employees His position being a CTO and founder to …
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#5 - Startups in Lebanon with Maysaa Ajjan
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Today’s episode is with Maysaa Ajjan, a journalist at Arab News. We have discussed the following topics: Her contributions to Al Annahar on the “Startup City” segment How Arabnet had the ability to track some startups in details Funding mechanism for startups from BDL (circular 331), bootcamps, competitions, and angel investing Lebanese startups co…
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Today's podcast episode is with Faz, a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. We have discussed some interesting topics ranging from: - how AWS supports developers to adopt the cloud - his experience being a Senior Solution Architect at AWS - the challenges he faced when iterating and optimizing software at Randstad (a 24.5 billion dollar scale company …
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#3 - Startups on AWS with Nicolas David
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This is my interview with Nicolas David, Senior Startup Solutions Architect Middle East at Amazon Web Services. We have discussed some interesting topics ranging from: How startups receive guidance and support from AWS His role on the Cloud Innovation Centers (CIC) program: a program provides opportunities for non profits, education institutions, a…
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We fear from a lot of things in our lives and that is something we will constantly face in our lives, in this episode Mohamad tries to deconstruct fear and recommend using a method called "Fear Setting" which is created by Tim Ferris that utilizes the Stoic's premeditatio malorum—the premeditation of the evils and troubles that might lie ahead…
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#1 - Web3: The Good, The Scams, and The Hype
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This episode we will dive deep into web3 in various aspects. We are going to talk about the advantages, the disadvantages, as well as the scams and hype around certain aspects of web3 even though the technology behind of it is pretty interesting. We will also talk about why do people buy some of those scams and how it is related to the metaverse in…
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Hello there! I'm Mohamad Kalaaji and I am an AWS Community Builder and Software Engineer. I've decided to launch my podcast "The Reconfigured Podcast" as a way to spread zero cost information to the general public through sharing my experience as a software engineer ever since I entered the field at the age of 17 years old. The podcast will also ho…
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