Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGaining cross-functional leadership at large & small scale companies & investing in org maturity w/ Bhavini Soneji #119
Bhavini Soneji, VP of Product Engineering @ Cruise, shares her leadership journey & how she gained cross-functional experience working at both large …
3 years, 4 months ago
Building platforms vs. products & leveraging OODA loops in leadership w/ Oksana Kubushyna #118
We discuss the differences between building a platform versus a product with Oksana Kubushyna, Head of Operations, Entertainment @ Riot Games! She sh…
3 years, 5 months ago
Increasing capacity to win in an economic downturn, cultivating a founder’s mindset & product ownership in engineering w/ Shadi Rostami #117
Shadi Rostami, SVP of Engineering @ Amplitude, joins us to discuss key insights and strategies to increase your engineering orgs capacity to win in a…
3 years, 5 months ago
Resilience engineering, learning from incidents and unintuitive perspectives on incident analysis w/ John Allspaw #116
We cover resilience engineering & learning from incidents with John Allspaw, former CTO @ Etsy and current Founder & Principal @ Adaptive Capacity La…
3 years, 5 months ago
Leading through an economic downturn & bridging the gap between engineering & business w/ Ryan Graciano #115
Ryan Graciano, Co-Founder & CTO @ Credit Karma, shares with us what it’s like to start a company during an economic downturn, how his leadership styl…
3 years, 5 months ago
Making Bold Decisions and Taking Risks in Your Career w/ Annie Cheng, Claire Hough, Lisa Gelobter & Arezoo Riahi #114
Being a woman in a predominantly male industry can be challenging at times – and seeking the advice of successful women eng leaders can help inspire …
3 years, 5 months ago
Becoming A Force Multiplier w/ Cal Henderson & Maria Kazandjieva #113
In this episode, Cal Henderson (Co-Founder & CTO @ Slack) and Maria Kazandjieva (Co-Founder @ Graft) discuss strategies for how to be a force multipl…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lessons on being deliberate w/ Megan Kacholia #112
As eng leaders, there are many things outside of our control – however, Megan Kacholia (VP of Eng @ Google) believes being deliberate can help you re…
3 years, 6 months ago
How to do an effective re-org w/ Aaron Erickson & Mike Tria #111
Reorgs are never easy, often impacting eng teams – and that’s why they should always be a last resort. However, sometimes they are necessary for an o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Engineering Founder’s Takeover: Top-down / Bottoms-up sales strategy, pricing, and enterprise product adoption w/ Abi Noda #110
This is a special episode from our new show “Engineering Founders” - Should you build B2C or B2B? What about implementing a top-down or a bottoms up …
3 years, 7 months ago