TomTom Engineering Podcast - The Magic Behind The Map

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Billions of data points. Millions of sources. Hundreds of communities. 125+ million drivers have been supplied with our tech. Ever wondered how we develop our location technology with teams around the globe? The TomTom Engineering Podcast, The Magic Behind The Map, is a podcast made by the engineers of TomTom. Felix Faassen and Rijn Buve discuss topics on software engineering, devops, security, data science, machine learning, open-source, and software engineering culture.

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UX Research with Elise Wabeke

Jun 29 2023 20 mins

User experience is at the core of the product we create at TomTom. In this episode we talk about UX research (and also how it differs from UX design) in TomTom with Elise Wabeke. Elise holds a master’s degree Design for Interaction from the Delft University of Technology. Links Sketching User Experiences by Bill BuxtonAmmassalik wooden maps

3D rendering with Rok Erjavec

May 31 2023 24 mins

In this episode we talk about 3D rendering with Rok Erjavec. Rok is technical director for map visualization in TomTom, with long term experience in 3D rendering (specifically for the game-industry, consoles and embedded systems).We talk about the history and progress of 3D rendering in resource-constraint environments and how great map visualization can make a difference in naviga

Data Stream Processing Pipelines at Scale with Ivan Diaz

Apr 25 2023 23 mins

In this episode we talk with Ivan Diaz who is a Principal Staff Engineer at TomTom who is working on the systems which automate part of our map making and distribution systems. Ivan, has over 20 years of experience in software engineering. He feels at home designing complex distributed systems for greenfield and/or integrated projects, with a mixture of cloud technologies and messa

Maplibre Map Rendering with Oliver Wipfli

Mar 28 2023 23 mins

Today we will dive into world of rendering a map and talk with Oliver Wipfli. He is one of the coordinators and a governing board member of the Maplibre open-source project. Oliver holds a master’s degree in physics and worked as a PhD student in quantum engineering and optics. He also worked as an intern at Nvidia working on PhysX/Omniverse products. Maplibre website: https://ma

Machine Learning at Meta with Ankit Jain

Jan 03 2023 25 mins

This episode we go on a journey through machine learning and data science with Ankit Jain. Ankit Jain is Engineering Manager Machine Learning at Meta. Ankit is an experienced AI Researcher/Machine Learning Engineer who has researched and deployed several scalable machine learning models at Uber, Meta and Bank of America. He Co-authored a bestseller book "Tensorflow Machine Learning

Cross Platform Mobile App Development with Gary Hogarth

Dec 05 2022 23 mins

In this episode we hang out with Gary Hogarth who is a staff engineer in the TomTom Amigo development team. Amigo is our latest free mobile navigation app that is build using React-native. We talk about his journey into becoming a software engineer, react-native, turbo modules instead of bridges and breaking things. Resources mentioned in the podcast:React NativeTurbo ModulesFlutte

Site Reliability Engineering with Rick Rackow

Nov 22 2022 22 mins

In this episode we have a chat with Rick Rackow who is an Expert Site Reliability Engineer at TomTom.We start by learning how Rick originally started his career as a car mechanic and how he got interested in software engineering and site reliability engineering . During the interview we discuss Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Kubernetes and OpenShift. We also discuss th