Moonpig Tech Podcast
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A podcast from the tech team at Moonpig. We'll focus on technology, and how we support our business - from design, implementation, delivery and career growth perspectives.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Internal practitioners connect engineering choices to the everyday consequences of automation and AI-assisted development.
Moonpig Technology Podcast makes workplace technology legible by putting the people doing the work in conversation with rotating hosts including Ariella, Sam, Leon and Richard.
Moonpig's video-card experiment puts your urge to polish the architecture on probation.
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A practical accessibility discussion that keeps the focus on real engineering habits and why they matter.
Moonpig Tech Podcast uses an internal accessibility hackathon to keep the discussion grounded in practice rather than slogans. It looks at why people joined the project, what they learned from working with colleagues outside their usual teams, and how simple checks such as…
A practical look at how Moonpig handles incidents through triage, monitoring, and severity prompts.
Moonpig's incident management process sits at the center of this discussion, with a clear focus on how issues are raised, who gets pulled in, and how the response keeps moving once it is live.
A grounded look at recommendation systems, MLOps, and how data science scales inside Moonpeak.
Moonpeak's data science discussion offers a practical look at how recommendation systems and MLOps shape what reaches the site. Francis Barrett traces the move from a team of one to a larger data science function, along with the closer link to data platform and the challenge of…
A practical look at process automation and safer self-service at Moonpig.
Moonpig's engineering culture is framed as practical, with the focus on process automation and the move from sysadmin bottlenecks toward safer self-service.
A practical look at how AI-assisted coding may reshape engineering without replacing engineers.
Moonpig's engineering team treats vibe coding as more than a catchphrase, framing it as a real change in how software is drafted and learned. Ariella and Sam guide Peter and Sush through what that shift could mean for day-to-day engineering work, and why staying open to new…
A grounded case for async that treats better meetings as an inclusion problem.
This episode makes a plain case for asynchronous communication and keeps it grounded in real team life. It starts with an inclusion problem inside an engineering group, then works outward into timing, structure, and the simple benefit of letting people think before they answer.
A grounded read on product discipline, team alignment, and the habit of asking why until the problem becomes clear.
Moonpig's product managers present the role as steady alignment work: keeping direction clear, tracking impact, and staying close to the reason behind each decision.
A practical look at rapid prototyping, user feedback, and how model improvements can make a prototype viable.
This episode tracks Max Church, a MoonPig developer on the AI team, as he talks through rapid prototyping, shipping quickly, and paying attention to user feedback.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Leon and Ariella sit down with Moonpig CPTO Georgie Smallwood.
The Moonpig Tech Podcast hosts Ariella and Rob interview engineers Julia and Ross about their participation in an internal company hackathon focused on improving the website's accessibility.
MoonPig's podcast shifts into an innovation project and the practical lessons that came out of it.
Richard and Leon talk with Moonpig developer Max Church about rapid prototyping.
Moonpig Tech Podcast spends this episode on incident management.
Maeve and Leon mark hackathon week at Moonpig with a conversation about what hackathons are and why teams run them.
Ange and Adelina talk through what product management looks like at Moonpig.
Moonpig principal engineer Alexis explains event-driven architecture, covering how events work, the challenges of eventual consistency, and how Moonpig implements localized data projections for resilient, loosely coupled systems.
Francis Barrett, Data Science Manager at Moonpig, explains the role of data science at the company, distinguishing it from analytics and data engineering.
Sam and Leon speak with Dan and Jake about process automation at Moonpig.
Moon Pig marks International Women’s Day with its first external guest.
Ben, Moonpig’s Director of Product Design, joins Ariella and Rob to talk about what a genuinely user-centric mindset looks like in product design.
Leon and Rob speak with Ash Grennan, a senior engineer at Moonpig who works on customer auth and orders functions.
The Moonpig Tech Podcast explores vibe coding with the company's Head of AI and VP of Engineering.