Sock Talk: A Computan Podcast

15 – Muhammad Uzair – HubSpot Developer – In search of a HubSpot time machine

Uzair has been working as a HubSpot developer for years. In this episode he recounts a time early in his career when he was building a custom search feature in HubSpot, published all pages and went looking for a time machine.

14 – Hassan Ahmed – HR Manager – Ransomware Rumble

Hassan is an HR Manager at Computan who helps the team find amazing developers. He’s also very technical. But he wasn’t always this way. Hassan recounts a time where he downloading illegal software led to a $50,000 hostage situation and him losing all his childhood pictures.

13 - Adeel Haider – Ecommerce Developer – $4000/month BigCommerce Blunder

Adeel is an eCommerce developer at Computan who knows Shopify, BigCommerce and other shopping carts. But one time earlier in his career he got taught a $4000/month lesson in BigCommerce. Hear all about it his humbling experience.

12 - Nadia Saleem - HR Director - Hiring Developers in Real Life

Nadia is Computan’s Director of Human Resources. She is responsible for hiring developers and outlines how Computan hires programmers. She also explains the role culture plays in hiring. Humans or socks.

11 - Mohamed Kassem – Project Manager – No estimate

Kassem is a Web Development Project Manager. He worked on a client for a marketing agency who asked him to get his team started on the work immediately to meet a timeline. He started to work without estimating everything and, at the client’s request, even skipped QCing the work. Naturally, this didn’t lead to rainbows and butterflies. Listen to find out what it led to and what you can learn about estimating dev projects.