As Senior Software Engineer Angelica reflects on her journey at bol, one word consistently stands out: community. When talking to us, she openly shares stories about her rapid professional growth, her most challenging project to date, and her desire to continuously step out of her comfort zone and do more.
Evolving in the world of tech: "bol's community helps me thrive"Julita talks about the past year and shares her aspirations in the field of machine learning. “I am very passionate about AI, and I truly believe in its potential for some incredible applications. This time at bol helps me to achieve my future goals while also enjoying a really fun journey along the way.”
From Young Professional to AI Expert“Working at bol.com allows me the freedom to innovate, inspire, and empower other women to do the same.” We are talking to Noha Shafik, who started her career in Egypt and has recently been promoted as bol.com’s Principle Engineering Manager. Guided by her search for personal values, Noha leads a diverse team at bol.com while staying true to herself, her strengths and her purpose.
Contributing to change & equality for women in techIf you are interested in Product Discovery or interested in how Platform teams can add loads of value to Product Teams, this is an episode for you.
Discovery for Technical Platform TeamsChantal Schinkels, author of the Book "The IT Girl", is about to release her second book. It's called "The buying drip" or in Dutch "Het Koopinfuus". We have the scoop with her to dive into this book.
The Buying Drip - A scoop of the 2nd book of Chantal SchinkelsWe invited Chantal Schinkels, author of the book The IT Girl, to our studio to talk about this book and the topic Women in Tech.
The IT Girl - Chantal SchinkelsAs bol.com we are transitioning to a product-led organization. In previous Techlab podcast episodes, we discussed several aspects of this transition. One of the viewpoints we haven’t discussed is that of the software engineer.
Product-led the engineering perspectiveWith 2 of our engineers, we look into how we keep enhancing the quality of our webshop using canary testing and analysis, contract testing and end-to-end testing in isolation.
Growing quality in our webshopJune 2022 - We celebrated Tech Culture Month at bol.com. Together with the initiators and organizers, we discuss the ins- and outs of this series of events. During this month, the Tech Culture Manifesto was introduced. We explore what this manifesto is about, how it got on paper and what we aim for with it.
Tech Culture Month and the Tech Culture ManifestoTesting the boundaries of the technology that we have today and having the opportunity to put a Google Glass on and experience operating in a pop-up Warehouse. Those were the results of a joint experiment by Google and bol.com.
Demo-time; Google Glass capabilities in a pop-up Warehouse
