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Engineering Culture by InfoQ

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

InfoQ 424 Episodes Aug 14, 2026

Engineering Culture by InfoQ is a weekly podcast that interviews top CTOs, engineers, and technology directors from companies like Uber and Netflix. It provides inspiration for software engineers, architects, and team leads to build better, high-performing teams. The podcast has over 500,000 downloads in the last three years.

Episodes

Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups
Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups Aug 14, 2026 00:26:00 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Gudeman about the unique culture of early-stage startup engineering, how founder personality quirks and premature process impositions can derail teams, and how engineers can build influence and make deliberate career ch
Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering
Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering Aug 7, 2026 00:57:03 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. This is the Engineering Culture Trends Report for 2026. Featuring a panel of QCon speakers and InfoQ contributors, they discussed AI adoption maturity and risk, the transformation of engineering team structures and roles, and the human dimensions of software development that must not be lost in 202
Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future
Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future Jul 10, 2026 00:23:12 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Gabriela Moreira about making formal methods accessible through the Quint specification language, how AI is dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for formal specification and model-based testing, and why defining correct s
Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era
Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era Jun 12, 2026 00:27:29 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source communities and engineering teams, designing deliberate organisational culture, and navigating evolving career
The AI Joy Gap: Why Some Developers Thrive While Others Struggle
The AI Joy Gap: Why Some Developers Thrive While Others Struggle May 8, 2026 00:27:23 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech AI, about bringing joy back to software development in the AI era, the emerging role of "factory architects" who orchestrate AI agents rather than write code directly, and the cu
Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook
Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook Apr 10, 2026 00:22:35 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sam Bhagwat, co-founder and CEO of Mastra, about building and sustaining open source communities, the emerging discipline of AI engineering and evals, and how cross-functional Tiger Teams are key to shipping agentic application
Information Flow: The Hidden Driver of Engineering Culture
Information Flow: The Hidden Driver of Engineering Culture Mar 13, 2026 00:20:58 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adrian Peryer about Ron Westrum's organizational culture continuum, the role of information flow in shaping team culture, and how leaders can develop requisite imagination to detect weak signals. Read a transcript of this in
Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era
Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era Feb 13, 2026 00:23:48 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ben Greene about embracing AI in software engineering, expanding beyond pure technical skills to understand business context, and prioritizing human empathy in increasingly automated systems. Read a transcript of this interv
The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance
The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance Jan 30, 2026 00:21:29 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Trisha Ballakur about transitioning from coder to startup CEO, balancing technical leadership with business development, and avoiding burnout on the journey. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3NGjHOX Subscri
Culture Through Tension: Leading Interdisciplinary Teams with Nick Gillian
Culture Through Tension: Leading Interdisciplinary Teams with Nick Gillian Jan 23, 2026 00:29:12 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Gillian about building cross-functional teams for physical AI innovation, growing engineering culture through positive tensions, and navigating the journey from technical execution to organizational influence. Read a tr
Why Engineering Culture Is Everything: Building Teams That Actually Work
Why Engineering Culture Is Everything: Building Teams That Actually Work Jan 16, 2026 00:23:53 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado about the central role of engineering culture, measuring team health through qualitative metrics, and learning from other engineering disciplines. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3
Effective Mentorship and Remote Team Culture with Gilad Shoham
Effective Mentorship and Remote Team Culture with Gilad Shoham Dec 26, 2025 00:27:49 This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gilad Shoham about building effective mentorship relationships, leading fully distributed teams and the evolving role of developers in an AI-augmented future. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3L8r7tm Sub

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