Mindera Yellow Box

Mindera Yellow Box

Tech, business and cultural conversations relating to Mindera and Software Engineering in general

Episodes

August 20, 2025 34 mins

Standing on Mindera's Yellow Box in this episode is Data Lead Miguel Bayan Soares. Miguel talks to Pedro Vicente about what data means today, the importance of facing the big data challenges of cost, quality, compliance and sustainability, and what the future holds.

Find out how to optimise the value and business impact of your data.

Contact Miguel and our data team today.

 

Host: Pedro Vicente

Audio & Video: Daniel Andrade

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Welcome to Mindera's Yellow Box India where we talk to Minders who have been creating an everlasting impact on others about their journey. In this episode Nirmal Kumar S discusses his mentorship of interns with host Archana KrishnaKumar.

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In this episode we will have Maria João Correia , a seasoned Product Manager and Analyst with 15 years of experience driving product innovation and strategy.

She has led the product function on multiple Mindera teams, delivering impactful solutions across diverse industries, including grocery retail, fashion retail, environmental technology, and workspace management. Her work is grounded in a deep commitment to enhancing user exper...

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In this episode we will have Stephen Scott (Scottie), a seasoned Non-Executive Director, Chair, and C-level executive with deep expertise in product, data, and digital strategy. We get to know more about IAG Loyalty and an outside perspective on Mindera.

 

Host: Pedro Vicente

Audio & Video: Daniel Andrade

Editing: Ian Whiteling

Graphics: Catarina Carneiro

 

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In this episode we will have André Pacheco Neves, an experienced Engineer with 10+ years of native iOS development (and counting!).

 

We will touch every topic of development: team structure, architecture, the new hype technologies and more.

 

Host: Pedro Vicente

Audio & Video: Daniel Andrade

Editing & Voice off: Ian Whiteling

Graphics: Catarina Carneiro

 

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After completely changing his life going through Code Academy (Academia de Código) and transitioning from a social sciences background to becoming a software developer at Mindera, Tiago Bahia started a YouTube channel with Pedro Vicente to help raise money for charity and institutions in need.

Checkout the show where Tiago and Pedro eat spicy food to raise money for charity: https://www.youtube.com/c/OQueArdeCura 

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Senior Infrastructure Architect Joel Bastos shares his experience with Prometheus in the context of infrastructure monitoring. Along with Pedro Araujo, Joel is the co-author of Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus.

 

You can follow Joel on Twitter @kintoandar

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Imagine a world where work is meaningful to everyone! That’s the purpose of Lemon Works and in this episode, Luís Simões shares his background and experiences that led him to become one of the founders and his vision of how Lemon Works can help traditional organisations become more human-centric. 

 

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

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Long time friend and principal engineer Tiago Reis takes us through his journey from Java to Go highlighting the main differences in the languages and the software development patterns.

 

You can follow Tiago on Twitter @tiagoandrereis

 

Useful resources for learning Go:

- Go Tour: https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

- Effective Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

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In five years, Infraspeak went from startup incubation to becoming one of the world leaders in infrastructure and facilities management systems. In this episode, Felipe shares his personal experiences developing and growing the company through this amazing journey.

Follow Felipe on Twitter @filipeacosta and checkout https://infraspeak.com/ for more information on Infraspeak.

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

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In this episode, Pawel Grzybek shares his thoughts about the current state of web development. From current Javascript and CSS frameworks to cross-browser compatibility support and web assembly. 

Checkout Pawel blog at https://pawelgrzybek.com and follow on Twitter @pawelgrzybek

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Dashdash (now Rows) is a genuine success story in Portugal’s (and Porto’s) tech ecosystem. Humberto, founder and CEO, shares his background story, all the way from working with computer vision and self-driving cars in California to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Learn more about dashdash at https://dashdash.com/ and remember to follow Humberto on Twitter @patife

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

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João Teixeira Duarte shares his experiences coming into Product Management from a psychology background. Reflecting on the value of empathic relationships as a means to increase product and process quality.

Follow João on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoaoTDuarte

Managing client’s expectations and fostering trust:  https://www.joaotduarte.com/blog/en-managing-clients-expectations-and-fostering-trust 

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Verónica Carrasco takes us through her journey from being a Computer Science lecturer in Ecuador to moving to the UK and joining the industry to become a full stack developer.

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  • Code First Girls : https://codefirstgirls.org.uk/ Code First Girls are dedicated to transforming tech by providing the skills, space and inspiration for women to become kick-ass developers and future leade...
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Pedro Vicente takes us down memory lane from the early days of Android app development all the way up to 2020 and the modern application development strategies and frameworks.

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At Mindera people can exercise autonomy, think for themselves, make decisions and drive things forward. In this episode, Sofia Reis shares her thoughts and insights about the Mindera culture and self-organisation model.

Learn more about Mindera at https://www.mindera.com/

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Carina shares her insights into what SEO developers should  be focusing on in 2020 as Google, Yahoo and Bing continue to evolve their search indexes and display features.

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What is Jamstack and why does it matter? Tiago gives us his insight on these design patterns, tooling and opportunities. Follow Tiago @tsbnunes and https://jamstack.org/ for more information.

 

Learn more about Jamstack: https://jamstack.org/Batteries included deployment platforms: https://vercel.com/ and https://www.netlify.com/

Some technologies and tools: https://nextjs.org/, https://www.11ty.dev/, https://www.gatsbyjs.org/

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Pedro talks about his life experience with people, hiring and culture development sharing insights and advice for people starting their careers.

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

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Paul Evans talks about his career and what led him to become one of the Mindera Founders.

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

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