Refactoring Podcast
Weekly interviews with world-class engineering leaders about writing great software and working well with humans.
Episodes
Burnout is a System Issue 🪫 — with Dominika Rogala
Today's guest is Dominika Rogala, former VP of Engineering and now advisor for CTOs and tech leaders. With Dominika, we talked about burnout in engineering teams, on which she did a lot of research. She started from the various dimensions of burnout, which spoiler alert is different from simply being tired, and then we looked at the problem from a systemic angle, so how can you improve your te
Building With Agents Today 🤖 — with Charlie Guo
Today's guest is Charlie Guo, developer experience engineer at OpenAI. With Charlie, we explore the evolution of AI coding tools, how this is affecting team organization, and the future of AI integration in software development. Charlie shared strategies and tricks to leverage AI effectively, and how this is all transforming the workflows that we all know and love.(00:00) Episode start(01:20)
Speed Is the Only Moat 🏎️ — with Anush Elangovan
Today's guest is Anush Elangovan, VP of AI Software at AMD. With Anush, we talked about how he thinks about open source as a key strategic driver in the AI era, and how his team is able to stay super fast while ensuring quality by combining their internal work with their external contributions.And then we got into a rabbit hole about how to get big companies ready for AI, how to think about hu
The Rise of Malleable Software 🧩 — with Geoffrey Litt
Today's guest is Geoffrey Litt, Design Engineer at Notion. With Geoffrey, we talked about malleable software, a type of platform that kind of always existed, but is now getting new meaning and opportunity thanks to AI.And then we talked about how Notion itself changed its place in the ecosystem, with the AI agents first, and now with the new developer platform, where you can ship code directly
The Power of Stories ✍️ — with Michael "Rands" Lopp
Today's guest is Michael Lopp, better known as Rands, who is writer of several popular books about engineering management, including "Managing Humans", which is a personal favorite of mine.Live at LDX3, we discussed his lifelong writing habit, the importance of giving feedback through stories and the leverage of leadership experience in the AI era.(00:00) Episode start(00:40) A live
Understanding Engineers' Needs 🧬 — with Lara Hogan
Today's guest is Lara Hogan, an author, public speaker and coach for managers and leaders across the whole tech industry. And she's had a long career as VP of engineering at FLY, Kickstarter, Director Etsy and more. So with Lara we talked about her journey in tech, which started with a philosophy degree. And then, taking from her work as a coach, we talked more about how successful teams a
The Future of Engineering 🔮 — with James Stanier
Today's guest is James Stanier, CTO at Nordhealth, former director at Shopify, an author of several books about engineering management, remote work, and more.With James, we talked about what senior engineers will look like in the future, taking from a great article he wrote just recently, and then regarding how engineering management is changing, what's expected of managers today, and what
The State of Product Development 🔍 — with Doug Peete
Today's guest is Doug Peete, Chief Product Officer at Atono, with whom over the last few months we have developed a deep industry report about the state of product development.In this chat we'll go through the main findings of the report, match them to our respective experience and explore ideas about how teams can do better with product development and AI(00:00) Episode start(01:38) Intro
How to Own Your Career 🦝 — with Jean Hsu and Cate Huston
Today's guests, plural, are Jean Hsu and Cate Huston.They're both extremely experienced engineering leaders and coaches, accomplished authors, and have held leadership roles at companies like Duck.co, Automattic, Medium and more. And are now running a program to help engineers and managers become, in their own words, directly responsible individuals of their careers to navigate these compl
AI Coding meets Code Health 🪄 — with Stuart Caborn
Today's guest is Stuart Caborn, distinguished engineer at loveholidays, which is an online travel agency with millions of customers around the world.I'm talking with Stuart because his team is doing AI coding for real.They operate an extremely complex product and technology, with each engineer deploying to production more than 80 times a month, with more than 60% of production code being w
Every Engineer Is a Manager Now 🤖 — with Chris Lattner
Today’s guest is Chris Lattner, one of the most important engineers for modern computing. Chris invented key compiler infrastructure tech like LLVM and MLIR, but he’s also the inventor of the Swift language, a key contributor in bringing Google TPUs to market, and a lot more. Today he’s the founder and CEO of Modular, where he’s reinventing AI infrastructure to make software portable across GPUs a
What Comes After the IDE 🖥 — with Amelia Wattenberger
Today's guest is Amelia Wattenberger, former principal research engineer at GitHub and now partner at Sutter Hill Ventures.But she's also a product lead at Augment Code, where she developed Intent, a developer workspace for orchestrating AI coding agents and delivering complex work. So this is a fascinating chat into the future and the present of software development with someone who has c
Leading Beyond the Framework 🧭 — with Richard Hughes-Jones
Today's guest is Richard Hughes-Jones, a professional executive coach with more than 20 years of experience. With Richard, we talked about how to coach tech leaders through uncertainty and everything that's going on with AI, how to navigate it, how we should think about our role, and what it means to step outside of the framework.We also explored how to leverage AI for coaching, how to ble
How to Master Behavioral Interviews 🎤 — with Austen McDonald
Today's guest is Austen McDonald, former hiring committee chair at Meta, and author of the book, "Mastering Behavioral Interviews." Austen, in his career, conducted more than 1,000 interviews and coached more than 200 engineers, and is here today to tell us everything about why behavioral interviews are more important than ever and how to run them right, as a candidate and as a recru
Building Apps with Your Voice 🎤— with Paige Bailey
Today's guest is Paige Bailey, Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind. And before that, Principal Product Manager at GitHub, where she launched Copilot and several other AI products.With Paige, we went through a quick demo of how to build and deploy a fully functioning application just with your voice, one that includes accessing your camera, manipulating pictures, and having AI doing a l
How Todoist is Built ✅ — with Gonçalo Silva
Today's guest is Gonçalo Silva, CTO of Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist.This interview is an incredible behind the scenes about one of the most peculiar companies in tech.Because Doist is bootstrapped, profitable, has no office and has about 100 employees that are spread across about 40 countries. Yet, or maybe for this reason, they created one of the world's most beloved produc
Career Sabbaticals and Self Discovery 🔍 — with Thiago Ghisi
Today's guest is Thiago Ghisi!Thiago is former director of engineering at Nubank and with a long and successful tech career in companies like ThoughtWorks, Apple and more. But right now, he's on a sabbatical and he's been for more than six months.So get ready for an incredible chat where we talked about your identity as an engineering leader, psychology, Claude Code and more.(00:00) Pr
The State of AI Adoption 📊 — with Matt McClernan
Today's guest is Matt McClernan, CEO of Augment Code!With Matt, we went through the findings of our own research that we developed together with Augment, surveying more than 400 engineering teams about how they're using AI.And we went through many topics, from the differences between personal and team adoption, challenges, how documentation looks like a secret weapon, how to manage context
How to Build Product Development Teams 🛠️ — with Rob Zuber
Today's guest is Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI!With Rob, we talked about software delivery, the impact of AI, and how to build great product engineering teams. And next, we discuss trade-offs between standardization versus flexibility in software organizations, and lessons learned from our respective past mistakes.(00:00) Preview(01:22) Introduction(03:33) Industry Changes and AI's Impact on
From Knowledge to Wisdom 🧠 — with Hywel Carver
Today's guest is Hywel Carver! Hywel is co-founder and CEO of Skiller Whale, which provides live team coaching for software engineering teams. With Hywel, we got deep into what makes traditional developer training awful, what engineers truly learn and what they should learn. Then we explored how to measure the impact of learning and how AI may possibly change both how learning works and our ow
The AI Transformation at Intercom 🤖 — with Darragh Curran
Today's guest is Darragh Curran! Darragh is the CTO of Intercom, which is one of the world's leading customer service products with more than 600 million users.With Darragh, we talked about how AI poses at the same time an existential risk and an incredible opportunity for Intercom, and how this led them to the decision of creating a completely separate product and deflect most team resour
Building Psychologically Safe Teams 🛡️ — with Meg Adams
Today's guest is Meg Adams!Meg is Senior Director of Engineering for the New York Times. With Meg, we talked about her fantastic journey in tech, from management in sales and retail, to learning software development from scratch, to management again, but this time in technology. And then we especially talked about Neuro Leadership, what it is, how you can apply it in practice in your team proc
Navigating AI Development Workflows 🛠 — with Birgitta Böckeler
Today's guest is Birgitta Böckeler!Birgitta is is a distinguished engineer and global lead for AI-assisted software delivery at ThoughtWorks. Her full-time work is to figure out how engineering teams can make the most out of AI.With Birgitta, we talked about her favorite workflows, how she uses AI in the IDE, in the terminal or in a genetic mode. We discussed AI impact on productivity and what
Automating Team Processes Gracefully ⚡ — with Antonia Scheidel
Today's guest is Antonia Scheidel!Antonia is Director of Engineering at Duolingo, where she made the whole career progression, starting as a simple intern 12 years ago. Antonia is an expert at designing good, automated processes for your team. We discuss how to create good automation to avoid people doing glue work, how not to become a bottleneck as a manager, and how to make the team own the
Technical Debt as Crime Scene 🔍 — with Adam Tornhill
Today's guest is Adam Tornhill! Adam is the author of the popular book Your Code as a Crime Scene, and he's the founder of Code Scene. With Adam, we discussed his unique insights about technical debt and code quality, which come from his study of forensic psychology. We explored how static analysis is not enough to understand code health and why you need to look into version control histor
Diversity, AI, and Junior Engineers 🎨 — with Meri Williams
Today's guest is Meri Williams, who is the CTO of Pleo and the host of LeadDev conferences for more than 10 years. With Meri, we started by talking about diversity, why it is such a controversial topic, why diverse teams make for stronger teams, and what are the mistakes engineering leaders should avoid. Then we took from her experience with Lead Dev to explore what makes for a good talk, and
Thinking in Bets for Engineers 🎲— with Annie Duke
Today's guest is Annie Duke, who is a former world-class professional poker player and one of the world's top experts on decision-making.She's a bestseller author and coach of many tech founders and teams.With Annie we talked about her journey from studying decision science to becoming a top poker player and back to decision-making. We explored how to make good decisions under uncertai
Refactoring at Scale Done Right 🏗️ — with Maude Lemaire
Today's guest is Maude Lemaire, who is a principal engineer at GitHub and author of the book, "Refactoring at Scale."With Maude, we talked about her journey in tech, from Rent the Runway to joining Slack and leading its performance engineering team to joining GitHub as a principal engineer. And then we discussed what it means to do refactoring at scale, how to do it right, how to bri
Building AI-Powered Podcast Learning 🎧 — with Kevin Smith
Today's guest is Kevin Smith, who is co-founder of Snipd, one of the world's most popular podcast apps.With Kevin, we talked about his journey in tech, starting from quantitative finance and then running an AI team in a high-growth startup up to actually founding one with Snipd. Then we segued into talking about Snipd itself and what are the technical challenges of working with AI models a
The Future of Dev Tools 🔧 — with Dennis Pilarinos
Today's guest is Dennis Pilarinos, who is founder and CEO of Unblocked. With Dennis, we talked about his journey in tech, which is just incredible, starting from director roles at Microsoft and Amazon, then founding BuddyBuild and later selling it to Apple, and eventually to these days where he founded Unblocked. And later we talked about Unblocked itself, which is one of the few developer AI
How to Manage Humans 🎽 — with Rands
Today's guest is Michael Lopp, better known as Rands, who is Senior Director of Engineering at Apple and writer of several popular books about engineering management, including "Managing Humans", which is a personal favorite of mine.With Rands, we discuss his journey into writing and the impact it had on his personal and professional growth. We reflected on his leadership style and the complexitie
The Vercel Journey 🔺 — with Guillermo Rauch
Today's guest is Guillermo Rauch, who is CEO and founder of Vercel.With Guillermo, we talked about his journey in tech, from a small-town in Argentina, to successful open-source developer, to CEO of a billion-dollar company. Then we covered the unique Vercel model, which combines open-source and commercial work. And finally, we discussed the future of AI, engineers, open-source and software engine
How to Integrate AI in the Dev Process 🪄 — with Ori Keren
Today's guest is Ori Keren, who is CEO and co-founder of LinearB and has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, especially in developer experience and productivity.With Ori, we talked about how AI is infiltrating all the stages of the development process, from coding to testing to code reviews. We discussed how AI is already restructuring teams and how engineering leaders can drive ado
Measuring and Improving Developer Experience 📊 — with Abi Noda
Today's guest is Abi Noda, the CEO and founder of DX, one of the leading engineering intelligence platforms.With Abi, we talked about measuring developer experience. We started with the early days of Accelerate and why we feel like most people got the book wrong. And then we continued to present days and how research focuses on driving great developer experience. And finally, we couldn't a
Open-source, complexity & AI coding 🔧 — with Salvatore "Antirez" Sanfilippo
Today's guest is Salvatore Sanfilippo, also known as Antirez!Salvatore is the creator of Redis, an open source data store used by hundreds of thousands of developers across the world. And he's also a writer. He published the popular sci-fi novel called Wohpe, which anticipated a lot of what is happening today with AI.With Salvatore, we talked about open source — what makes a project succes
How to Coach CTOs 👑 — with Joel Chippindale
Today's guest is Joel Chippindale!Joel is a full-time CTO Coach and one of the coaches-in-residence in the Refactoring community, where he runs monthly mastermind sessions and other community events.So with Joel, we dived into what coaching is, the difference with mentoring, one-on-one versus group coaching, and what are the top challenges that CTO faces today, based on the work that Joel does
The Future of Creative Organizations ✏️ — with Dan Shipper
Today's guest is Dan Shipper!Dan is the CEO and founder of Every, which is one of the world's most popular publications, writing about AI and our relationship with technology. And Dan is one of my heroes. His newsletter was the first I ever paid for on Substack, and single-handedly inspired me to start Refactoring. But he doesn't know. I will tell him during the interview and you will
Combining AI and Human Work 🤖 — with Marco Trombetti
Today's guest is Marco Trombetti!Marco is the CEO and founder of Translated, one of the largest translation companies in the world, powering translations for the likes of Airbnb, Uber, Skyscanner, and more.Translated is also an AI pioneer. It has developed its own models for more than 20 years and has recently released the most advanced translation LLM in the world.With Marco, we talked about
User-experience, Local-first apps and dev tools 🔧 — with Adam Wiggins
Today's guest is Adam Wiggins!
Adam is the General Manager of Platform at The Browser Company and co-founder of Heroku.
With Adam, we talked about innovating user experience in software and AI, we discussed what Local-first software means and we explored the future of developer tools.
(02:49) Introduction
(04:01) Adam's journey in tech
(06:15) The rise of developer experience
(10:03) Th
Growing the development forest 🌲 — with Martin Fowler
Today's guest is Martin Fowler!
Martin is chief scientist at ThoughtWorks. He is one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and author of several legendary books, among which there is Refactoring, which shares the name with this podcast and this newsletter.
With Martin, we talked about the impact of AI on software development, from the development process to how human learning a
Profitable Engineering 🛠️ — with Aviv Ben Josef
Today's guest is Aviv Ben Josef!
Aviv has more than 20 years of experience in tech. He is an executive coach working with hundreds of engineering teams and leaders.
With Aviv, we talked about profitable engineering, what makes engineering valuable, why impact is hard to measure,and what are the cultural and organizational traits that make engineering teams successful.
(01:43) Introduction
(02:2
The Evolution of Engineering Management 👑 — with Pat Kua
Today's guest is Pat Kua!
Pat is a professional engineering and leadership coach with more than 20 years of experience in tech.
He was CTO of N26 and principal consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is an accomplished speaker and writes an awesome newsletter for tech leaders called Level Up.
With Pat, we talked about his journey in tech, from Australia to London to Berlin. We talked about the future of
Career frameworks for Engineers and Managers 🪜 — with Francesco Dominidiato
Today's guest is Francesco Dominidiato!
Francesco Dominidiato is CTO at Moneyfarm, one of the largest wealth management companies in Europe, and former CTO at high-growth startups like Casavo and Docebo. During his career he scaled organizations from zero to hundreds of employees, and has incredible experience at all levels: from leading small teams to NASDAQ-listed companies.
With Francesco, w
Technical Storytelling at Google ✏️ — with Stephanie Wong
Today's guest is Stephanie Wong!
Stephanie is the Head of Technical Marketing at Google Cloud, where she blends storytelling and technology to inspire developers and build customer growth. She’s an award-winning host, global keynote speaker, and creator of viral tech content.
With Stephanie, we talked about her journey from sales to content creation to product management and generative AI. We t
Communication Engineering 💬 — with Pramoda Vyasarao
Today's guest is Pramoda Vyasarao!
Pramoda is a leadership and communication coach, he has 20+ years of experience in big tech, wrote the book “Beyond Your Limits”, and runs a course called Communication Engineering
With Pramoda, we will talk about what good communication looks like, especially for engineers and managers, how it impacted his career and the career of the leaders he helps.
Here
Founder Mode & The Manager’s Path 👑 — with Camille Fournier
Today's guest is Camille Fournier!
Camille is an accomplished CTO and executive with 20+ years of experience in tech, and author of the timeless The Manager’s Path, possibly the most influential book ever about engineering management.
With Camille we talked about good vs bad management, the controversial new founder mode, career advice for managers and her next book about platform engineeri
Merchants of Complexity 🏯 — with DHH
Today's guest is David Heinemeier Hansson!
David is the creator of Rails, co-founder & CTO of Basecamp, a NYT bestselling author, and professional racing driver for 10+ years!
In our chat, we explored many of David's strong opinions on software development, including today's excessive complexity in software and infrastructure, the role of AI, and the future of open source.
We al
Continuous Coordination 🔀 — with Henry Poydar
Today's guest is Henry Poydar!
Henry is CEO and founder at Steady, with more than 25 years of experience in tech leadership roles.
With Henry, we talked about continuous coordination, an open source framework he co-created, providing a set of principles and practices for running modern, effective engineering teams.
Here is what we talked about:
(01:25) Introduction
(02:25) Henry's Car
Dana’s Journey, Hiring Engineers & AI 🗺️ — with Dana Lawson
Today's guest is Dana Lawson!
Dana is CTO at Netlify and held leadership roles at incredible companies like GitHub, New Relic, InVision, and more.
With Dana, we talked about her journey, starting in the military, becoming a manager and major lessons she has learned. We also talked about how to hire engineers, how to create a diverse and inclusive team, and the impact of AI on engineering.
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The Power of Influence 📣 — with Irina Stanescu
Today's guest is Irina Stanescu!
Irina is a full-time engineering coach, course instructor, and former manager at Uber and Google.
With Irina, we talked about her journey through Silicon Valley, big tech, and high growth startups, balancing IC and management duties, and achieving impact through influence.
Here is what we talked about:
(01:21) Introduction
(02:02) Irina’s first steps
(06:10
Code Reviews, AI, and Modern Engineering 🔍 — with Greg Foster
Today's guest is Greg Foster!
Greg is CTO at Graphite, a tool that helps teams doing better code reviews, and smaller and faster code changes.
With Greg, we talked about what good code reviews look like, how AI is changing the development process, and how the Graphite engineering team works.
Here is what we talked about:
(02:01) Introduction
(03:06) What is Graphite?
(05:05) Graphite'
How Vercel Works 🔍 — with Malte Ubl
Today's guest is Malte Ubl!
Malte is CTO at Vercel, the frontend cloud provider, and creator and maintainer of Next.js, the most popular React framework.
Malte has also been Engineer Director at Google, where he led Google Search for desktop computers.
With Malte, we deep dived into how Vercel works as a team, what could developer experience look like, and the future of AI-enabled applicat
Good Tech Strategy / Bad Tech Strategy 🔮 — with Anna Shipman
Today's guest is Anna Shipman!
Anna is CTO at Kooth, former Technical Director at Financial Times, a Keynote speaker and accomplished author.
With Anna, we talked about her journey in tech and how to develop a good technical strategy, drawing from stories and examples from her 20 plus years of engineering experience.
Here is what we talked about:
(00:54) Introduction
(01:20) Anna's jo
Elements of an Effective Software Organization 🔧 — with Rebecca Murphey
Today's guest is Rebecca Murphey.
Rebecca is field CTO at Swarmia, former manager at Stripe and Indeed, and the author of Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization.
With Rebecca, we talked about her journey through Indeed, Stripe and Swarmia and the three pillars of her book, business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.
Here is what we talked about:
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Scaling Teams at Sanity, Github, and Google 🏢 — with Rachel Potvin
Today's guest is Rachel Potvin.
Rachel is SVP of Engineering at Sanity, ex-VP of Engineering at Github, and previously worked at Google and Ubisoft. She has had an incredible career journey and is a world renowned speaker.
With Rachel we talked about her journey across what feels like different generations of companies. We talked about scaling teams, challenges, lessons learned and the grea
How Perplexity Works — with Denis Yarats 🤖
Today's guest is Denis Yarats.
Denis is co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, one of my favorite products and one of the most successful AI startups today. Perplexity was founded less than two years ago and has just raised $250M in venture capital, at a $2B+ evaluation.
With Denis, we talked about the state of AI products and his vision of where they're going. Then we talked about Perplex
Facebook, Dropbox & Modern Engineering Teams 📈 — with Aditya Agarwal
Today's guest is Aditya Agarwal.
Aditya is a legend: he joined Facebook as employee #10 and, years later, joined Dropbox as CTO when there were ~20 engineers. Today, he is partner at South Park Commons, through which he invested in more than 300 companies.
Today we talked about early stage Facebook, differences and similarities with Dropbox, engineering teams in hyper growth and the future
Observability & Testing in Production 🔭 — with Charity Majors
Today's guest is Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb and one of my
absolute favorite writers. I believe I have recommended more articles
from her blog than any other author on the newsletter.
Today we talked about observability, testing in production, continuous delivery, developer experience and much more.
Here is what we talked about:
(00:49) Introduction
(01:57) What is observability
(07:00
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience 📊 — with Laura Tacho (DX)
Today's guest is Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, engineering leadership coach, and speaker.
At DX, she works with hundreds of companies on improving their developer experience and engineering productivity.
Here is what we talked about:
(02:20) Introduction
(03:36) Why measure engineering productivity
(05:58) Finding the proper framework
(13:33) Value metrics to find issues
(15:00) Identify and ease t
Small Bets for Engineers 💰 — with Daniel Vassallo (Small Bets)
Today's guest is Daniel Vassallo, the creator of the Small Bets community, which counts more than 5 ,000 members and includes engineers, entrepreneurs, and creators of all kinds.
Daniel is also a former software engineer at AWS, the author of The Good Parts of AWS and created a successful Twitter course.
With Daniel, we will talk about his unconventional journey in tech, the Small Bets philo
How to be Successful as a Manager 🎽 — with Thiago Ghisi
Today's guest is Thiago Ghisi, Director of Engineering at Nubank.
Thiago has had an incredible tech career. Before Nubank, he worked at Apple, Amex and ThoughtWorks. He is also a deep thinker, hosts a podcast and constantly shares great advice on X and LinkedIn.
During our chat with Thiago, we talked about what makes managers successful, career expectations and frameworks and how to build a
It's Rarely About the Tech 👑 — with Andrew Weaver
Andrew Weaver is co-founder and CEO of CTO Academy, an educational product that works with thousands of CTO today. Andrew has over 25+ years of executive-level experience with companies of various size, including enterprises, SME and early-stage companies across multiple sectors.
With Andrew, we discussed gaining the proper skillset to be a good CTO, the imbalances in the tech space, and how to
Good Communication for Engineers 💬 — with Wes Kao
Wes Kao is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes an amazing newsletter for high-performers in tech.
She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from First Round and Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin.
Here is what we talked about:
(00:00) Introduction
(03:08) Managing up
(10:13) Bridging the gap b
How to Build High Performing Engineering Teams 🏗️ — with Maria Gutierrez (Personio, Twitter)
Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering at Personio, and ex VP of Engineering and Operations at Twitter.
With Maria we talked about how to build healthy and impactful engineering orgs as they scale. We touched on everything from processes to remote work, development cycle, hiring, structuring teams and more.
(00:00) Introduction
(02:12) Maria's career journey
(05:18) How hyper-growth breaks
How to Improve Developer Productivity 📊 — with Kathryn Koehler (Netflix)
Kathryn Koehler is the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix.
Her teams focus on the development environment and associated experiences, which enable and empower developers at Netflix to bootstrap, code, build, test, debug, and maintain software more effectively and efficiently.
Productivity is an ever-controversial topic in engineering, and with Kathryn we dived right into it! Here is w
Running a Remote Big Tech — with Farhan Thawar (Shopify)
Farhan Thawar is VP of Engineering at Shopify, angel investor, and entrepreneur.
Shopify is a public company with thousands of employees, and one of the very few companies of its scale to be remote-first. While other big tech quietly issued RTOs, Shopify doubled down on processes and culture that allowed it to stay remote, or, in their own words: digital-first.
So, today, Shopify has ports instead
The State of Software Engineering — with Kent Beck
Today’s guest is Kent Beck, original signer of the Agile manifesto, creator of Extreme Programming, and all-round programming legend.
With Kent we had the unique opportunity to talk about the big picture. I inquired him about the state of the software engineering craft today, discussing things like:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:27) Agile vs Power Structures
(08:37) The Return of Waterfall
(12:33) Extr
Integrating AI into Products and Teams — with Disheng Qiu (Translated)
Disheng Qiu is VP of Engineering at Translated, one of the largest translation companies in the world, powering localization for the likes of Airbnb, Uber, Skyscanner, and more.
Translated has been working on proprietary AI models and tools for 20+ years. It has an internal research team and develops tools that power the work of tens of thousands of professionals.
With Disheng we explored what it
The World Builder Framework — with Aadil Maan (Humane)
Aadil Maan is Lead Engineering Program Manager at Humane and a big tech veteran, having worked at the likes of Google, Apple, and Blackberry.
Today’s theme is The World Builder Framework — Aadil's own approach to problem solving and solutioning processes, frameworks and workflows for product and engineering teams.
Here are a few things we discussed in our chat:
What do TPMs do? 🗺️
The Worl
Leading and Human-ing in 2024 — with Lena Reinhard (CircleCI)
Lena Reinhardt has dedicated her career to helping technology leaders build successful engineering organizations.
Her background includes roles such as VP of Engineering at CircleCI and TravisCI, along with being a co founder and CEO of a SaaS startup. She now works as a leadership coach, management trainer, and organizational developer.
Here are a few things we discussed in our chat:
Challenge
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