Latest Peter bell Podcast Episodes
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 ...
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...
Short Byte: Colin Earl - How and why CTOs should engage with no-code tools
CTO Connection Podcast - September 23, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThey're coming. From bubble.io and webflow through UI Path and Blue Prism, the chances are that someone within your company is already building a departmental system using a "no code" tool. As with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for CIOs a decade ago, ignoring the problem isn't an option. In thi...
Starting from somewhere else
CTO Connection Podcast - September 09, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWellington, NZ isn’t the obvious place to start a SaaS company. But Xero has built a globally distributed team of over 1800 people in product and engineering. In this episode, I chat with Mark Rees [https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrees3/], their CTO about how they scaled the org. Learn more ab...
Short Byte: Mark Reese - Starting from somewhere else
CTO Connection Podcast - September 09, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWellington, NZ isn’t the obvious place to start a SaaS company. But Xero has built a globally distributed team of over 1800 people in product and engineering. In this episode, I chat with Mark Rees [https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrees3/], their CTO about how they scaled the org. Learn more ab...
Short Byte: Adam Sypniewski - Going against the flow
CTO Connection Podcast - August 26, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsOne of the biggest risks for an engineering org is the “Not Invented Here” syndrome where the tech team wants to rethink every decision and rebuild every piece of tech from scratch. But sometimes it makes sense to take a different path if the constraints you’re optimizing for are uncommon. In t...
Short Byte: Anurag Gupta - The importance of automating production ops
CTO Connection Podcast - August 12, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhile running database services for AWS, Anurag Gupta, now Founder & CEO of Shoreline.io, learned the importance of going beyond monitoring and incident response to implement incident automation to automatically resolve common (and uncommon) production issues. In this episode, he talks about the...
Short Byte: Rob Zuber - Being an executive first
CTO Connection Podcast - July 30, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAs a CTO, you're not just responsible for running the engineering team... Because you're also a C-level executive with the responsibility to help the executive team to leverage technology to achieve their business goals. So how can you maximize the value you're bringing to your organization? T...
Short Byte: Tim Olshansky - Managing hybrid remote teams
CTO Connection Podcast - June 17, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsShort Byte: Tim Olshansky - Managing hybrid remote teams We can't put the remote genie back in the bottle, but with some people desperate to get out and go back to the office, how can organizations manage the two? In today's Short Byte, I speak to Tim Olshansky, EVP of Product, Design and Engi...
Short Byte: Jeff DeVerter - Do you even know what software your company is developing?
CTO Connection Podcast - May 20, 2021 22:34 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsShort Byte: Jeff DeVerter - Do you even know what software your company is developing? The good news is that software development has moved from a peripheral activity to the heart of every business. But as technology becomes integral to all functions, how can you keep track of what embedded eng...
Short Byte: Jeffrey Spector - Why you have to improve your hiring process
CTO Connection Podcast - March 31, 2021 18:50 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsShort Byte: Jeffrey Spector - Why you have to improve your hiring process With demand for talent at an all time high, if you want to attract, identify and close the best developers for your team, you simply have to up your hiring game. Join us for this “Short Byte” as I interview Jeff Spector -...
Short Byte: Camille Fournier - Managing a product focused engineering org
CTO Connection Podcast - March 11, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsShort Byte: Camille Fournier - Managing a product focused engineering org Camille Fournier is perhaps best known for her amazing book “the managers path” - a guide for tech leaders navigating growth and change. But she also has a degree from Carnegie Mellon, was a VP at Goldman Sachs, and then ...
Short Byte: Mai Irie - What to do when your engineering leader leaves
CTO Connection Podcast - February 25, 2021 19:53 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsShort Byte: Mai Irie - What to do when your engineering leader leaves Mai Irie is a director of engineering, but twice in the last two years she’s had to deal with managing the engineering org after her CTO or general equivalent left. In this interview we’ll look at some best practices for taki...
Short Byte: Lee Edwards - How to pick the right tech startup
CTO Connection Podcast - February 20, 2021 00:48 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsShort Byte: Lee Edwards - How to pick the right tech startup Whether you’re thinking of founding, joining or investing in an early stage tech company, Lee Edwards has some advice! From effective due diligence on an early stage company to some interesting focus areas for deep tech startups. Lee ...
Short Byte: Johnny Ray Austin Measuring outcomes vs. inputs
CTO Connection Podcast - February 13, 2021 00:32 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsShort Byte: Johnny Ray Austin - Measuring outcomes vs. inputs How can you best measure the effectiveness of your engineering team? Lines of Code written? Number of PR’s? There are absolutely some input metrics that can have some value, but we don’t hire engineers to write code, we hire them to ...
Short Byte: James Smith - Building vs buying software
CTO Connection Podcast - February 06, 2021 16:54 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsBuilding vs buying software Building vs buying is always a fraught decision. Nominally buying a solution provides more capability and a quicker time to market, but then you have the potential of vendor lock in and being constrained by the limitations of the tool that you chose. And in the engine...
Short Byte: Heidi WIlliams - Building a startup within a startup
CTO Connection Podcast - January 29, 2021 22:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsBuilding a startup within a startup There are a unique set of constraints when you’re running an engineering team at a “startup within a startup” - from managing the planning cycle before you’ve hit product market fit, to customizing elements of your product and infrastructure designed for a ve...
Short Byte: Juan Pablo Buriticá 12/17/2020 - learning the craft of engineering management
CTO Connection Podcast - December 17, 2020 19:26 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsJP learned engineering management the hard way - and he’s passionate about helping new engineering leaders to have a better pathway to building their skills. In this Short Byte we look at the differences between being an engineering leader at a startup vs a larger company, how JP learned to beco...
Short Byte: Cat Miller 12/3/20
CTO Connection Podcast - December 03, 2020 19:43 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsCulture work is part of a developers job At Flatiron Health, the team thinks that getting IC’s to invest in the team culture is so important that they’ve built it into their career ladder. So I’ll be asking Cat why “culture work” (from onboarding and mentoring to planning hackathons and running...
Using ML/AI to Analyze Your Log Files with Christian Beedgen
CTO Connection Podcast - December 02, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAccording to Christian Beedgen CTO and co-founder of Sumo Logic, there is no magic bullet when it comes to innovation. His brain child, Sumo Logic, was founded to empower digital business through real-time analytics delivered as a service. On this week’s episode of CTO Connection, Christian and...
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