Latest Engineering leadership Podcast Episodes
Learning new languages, harnessing the strengths of management and IC tracks, and embracing adaptation (with Jany Koščo)
Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode, we examine how mastering multiple programming languages is a huge advantage in today’s rapidly evolving tech environment. Jany Koščo, Senior Staff Engineer at Productboard, explains that as a generalist not only can you better solve coding problems and meet customer needs, but y...
Insider tips on hiring staff & senior staff engineers (with Claudiu Andrei)
Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast - February 04, 2024 21:00 - 44 minutesIn the fourth episode of Season 2, we sit down with Claudiu Andrei, Site Tech Lead at Productboard’s San Francisco office, who’s in the process of building up two new teams to better serve our enterprise customers. We talk to Claudiu about what he considers when hiring staff and senior staff eng...
Driving Change with Velocity, with Nextdoor's CTO
Plato Engineering Q&As - August 11, 2023 15:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHear an insightful Engineering Q&A with Antonio Silveira, CTO at Nextdoor, titled "Velocity at NextDoor: Team composition, coding, decision making, and anomaly detection." Silveira will unpack the importance of team unity and effective management and how these factors shape overall company succe...
Operational Excellence, with SoFi's CTO
Plato Engineering Q&As - July 07, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHear a riveting Q&A with Jeremy Rishel, CTO at SoFi, as he delves into "Operational Excellence in a High Trust, High Regulation Environment." Gain insights from Jeremy's diverse background—ranging from a Marine officer to tech leadership roles at Twitter and Splunk—as he shares his strategies fo...
Navigating the AI Shift, with Matterport's CTO
Plato Engineering Q&As - June 23, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHear Japjit Tulsi, CTO at Matterport, in an Engineering Q&A titled "Navigating the AI Shift: Essential Adaptations for Modern Engineers." This discussion explores the transformative power of Generative AI and its impact on technology. Discover how AI is changing expectations and why tech teams...
Outcome-Driven Efficiency, with Amplitude's SEVP of Engineering
Plato Engineering Q&As - June 02, 2023 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHear Shadi Rostami, Senior/Executive VP of Engineering at Amplitude, in an Engineering Q&A session focused on Outcome-Driven Efficiency and its impact on business success. Discover how to set metrics and goals for all teams and how engineers can be crucial in achieving this. Learn how customer...
Counterintuitive Solutions to Common Problems, with GitLab's former CTO
Plato Engineering Q&As - May 19, 2023 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAs the former CTO of GitLab and a board member of the Linux Foundation, Eric has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing software engineers today. In this Engineering Q&A, Eric shares his insights on how to think creatively and "outside the box" to solve common engineer...
Staff+ ambitions: Top tips for landing your IC leadership job (with Alice Rum, Dmitry Belyaev and Tomáš Růžička)
Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast - May 18, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutesOur third episode of Season 2 was a special live recording from this year’s WebExpo conference in Prague, where we discussed what it takes to become a Staff+ Engineer. We sat down with a trio of experts in the field – Alice Rum, Staff Software Engineer at SentinelOne, Dmitry Belyaev, Principal F...
Rituals for High Performance, with Coda's Head of Engineering
Plato Engineering Q&As - May 08, 2023 21:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn today's fast-paced and competitive world, engineering teams face immense pressure to deliver high-quality products rapidly. To meet these demands, it's crucial to establish effective rituals and practices that help teams perform at their best. Support the show
What It Takes To Stay, with Box's VP of Engineering
Plato Engineering Q&As - April 20, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAre you looking for ways to build a successful and long-lasting career in the tech industry? Are you uncertain about making a career change in today's uncertain economic climate? Tamar will share her experience of growing alongside Box and the secrets to her success in staying loyal to the com...
Mentor me this: a master's guide to mentoring for staff+ engineers (with Hussien Khayoon)
Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast - April 06, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutesIn our second episode of Season 2, we chatted with Hussien Khayoon, Staff Software Developer at Shopify, about the undisputable importance and value of mentoring – regardless if you’re just starting out or already at the top of your game. He discusses how his mentoring roles at Bootcamp, Super...
Doing More With Less, with Okta's President and Chief Dev Officer
Plato Engineering Q&As - March 27, 2023 18:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWith over 15 years of experience at Google and now being Chief Development Officer at Okta, Sagnik is a seasoned expert in his field. In light of recent layoffs and budget cuts in the industry, ensuring your engineering team is operating at its full potential is more important than ever. Supp...
Quality Anti-Patterns, with Figma's CTO
Plato Engineering Q&As - March 27, 2023 18:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLearn about the standard industry practices that Figma avoids to ensure the quality of its products and gain insights into how the company approaches quality assurance with Kris Rasmussen, CTO at Figma. Support the show
Think Big But Not Too Big, with Datadog's SVP of Core Engineering
Plato Engineering Q&As - March 27, 2023 18:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAfter more than ten years at Amazon Web Services and close to four years at Datadog, Ian Nowland, SVP of Core Engineering at Datadog, knows what it takes to establish a platform product, from nascent to established. His secret? Think Big But Not Too Big. Support the show
Striving for Optimal Efficiency, with Notion's Head of Engineering
Plato Engineering Q&As - March 27, 2023 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsDiscover how Notion, the all-in-one workspace, leverages collaboration between engineering, product, and design teams to drive innovation and achieve optimal efficiency. Gain insights on improving collaboration in your organization and hear the story of Michael Manapat, a founding engineer in ...
From manager of managers to principal engineer (with Ralph McTeggart)
Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast - February 22, 2023 06:00 - 51 minutesIn our first episode of Season 2, we chatted with Ralph McTeggart, Principal Engineer at Productboard, about his decision to become a Tech Lead after wearing a manager hat for several years. He examines the benefits as well as the challenges he faced upon returning closer to the technical side,...
"Navigating and Building Through Uncertainty", with Robinhood's SVP of Engineering
Plato Engineering Q&As - December 06, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings"Navigating and Building Through Uncertainty," with Robinhood's SVP of Engineering Support the show
Short Byte: Mark Van de Wiel - Managing an engineering team through an acquisition
CTO Connection Podcast - January 13, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhat with covid and the great resignation, it’s hard enough to keep an engineering organization intact, aligned and motivated. Imagine doing the same while negotiating a transaction that could impact everything from your feature roadmap to your long-term tech stack. In this episode, I chat with ...
Self-reflection: How to become a confident, high-performing leader (with Ramona Shaw)
Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast - January 03, 2022 17:00 - 1 hourIn the seventh episode of our podcast series, Joshua welcomes Ramona Shaw, his BetterManager leadership coach. Ramona works with both emerging and experienced technology leaders to help them achieve their fullest leadership potential. In this inspiring episode, Joshua and Ramona explore the fu...
Short Byte: Marko Gargenta - Tech enablement - the hard part of developer education
CTO Connection Podcast - December 30, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe hard part of developer education isn’t teaching your team a new language or framework. It’s teaching your team how you use the language or framework. Smart devs can always find a video course online to learn the basics of ES6 or Scala, but teaching them the patterns used within your company,...
Short Byte: Ramana Satyavarapu - Engineering management vs leadership
CTO Connection Podcast - December 23, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsRamana Satyavarapu is the CTO at Finix - a payments solution for SaaS companies. Previously he was Head of Data Engineering Platform and Product at Two Sigma, Head of Engineering, Software Network Infrastructure for Uber and a Head of Engineering at Google running the Google Play search team. In...
Short Byte: Ron Lichty - Starting a new engineering leadership role
CTO Connection Podcast - December 16, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFor most of us, jumping into engineering leadership at a new company is only something we do every 3-5 years. Today's guest, Ron Lichty, Consulting VPE, often jumps into three or more new companies every year! In this episode, we’ll discuss how he investigates the technologies, tools, teams and ...
Short Byte: David Subar - How to choose a CTO coach
CTO Connection Podcast - December 09, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsNo matter how experienced you are, there are times where it can make sense to get a second pair of eyes on a problem. For small questions you can always tap your network, but as the amount of context required and input needed grows, it can make sense to bring in a consultant in so they can think...
Short Byte: Joe Bradley - Leveraging conversational AI
CTO Connection Podcast - December 02, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsConversational AI has come a long way from simple rules based chatbots, but it's still a complex and quickly evolving space. Join me as I chat with Joe Bradley, Chief Scientist at LivePerson, about the use cases, tooling, team structures and gotchas if you're considering implementing a conversat...
Short Byte: Claudius Mbemba - Sustaining culture within a remote-first team
CTO Connection Podcast - November 25, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWe're all dealing with remote-first teams now whether we like to or not. But the more I investigate hybrid working options, the more likely it seems that we're going to have to come up with remote friendly approaches to building and sustaining the culture of our engineering orgs long term. Hear ...
Short Byte: Labhesh Patel - Diversity, Inclusion and Bias in AI Systems
CTO Connection Podcast - November 18, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsMost companies are increasingly trying to leverage data science to achieve their business goals, but it's easy to create biased models that disadvantage underrepresented groups. In this episode I get to chat with Labhesh Patel, CTO and Chief Scientist at Jumio. We start by looking at common typ...
Short Byte: Charlie Reverte - Retaining your team during the 'great resignation'
CTO Connection Podcast - November 11, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe great resignation is both a threat and an opportunity for engineering leaders. To avoid regrettable attrition, you need to make sure you are tracking your comp to industry standards, creating the psychological safety to allow your team to be honest about their career aspirations and ensuring...
Short Byte: Jossie Haines - Empathy and Inclusion in Engineering Leadership
CTO Connection Podcast - November 04, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsTo create a truly diverse and inclusive team where everyone can thrive and share their views, engineering leaders need to abide by the following three pillars: 1) effective and fair management principles, 2) comprehensive DEI practices, and 3) an inclusive culture. Empathy is the framework l...
Short Byte: Ben John - Managing engineering at scale
CTO Connection Podcast - October 21, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this wide ranging talk, I chat with Dr. Ben John about his experiences in scaling and managing the team at AppNexus (and post AT&T acquisition at Xandr). We talk about six week planning cycles, creating a supportive culture, building out a learnign and development team within the engineering ...
Short Byte: Anne Lise Waal - Gaming the enterprise
CTO Connection Podcast - October 07, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIt's not easy to bring gaming technologies into the enterprise. From hardware limitations to unreasonable expectations, it's challenging to bring game like learning simulations to the corporate world. Anne Lise Waal has been doing just that at Attensi, and in this episode she shares her experi...
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