By Henry Suryawirawan
Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.
Are long code review cycles killing your engineering team's velocity? Learn how top engineering teams are shipping code faster without sacrificing quality. In this episode, Greg Foster, CTO and co-founder of Graphite, discusses the evolution of code review practices and the benefits of stacked PRs.
Struggling with technical debt and code quality? Learn how a technical coach can help your team level up. In this episode, Emily Bache, a Samman technical coach, shares her proven method for building better engineering teams through structured learning and collaborative coding.
Why do engineering teams slow down as they scale? It's not the technology—it's the management systems. In this episode, Michi Kono, CTO at Garner Health and former engineering leader at Meta, Capital One, and Stripe, shares his battle-tested approach to building scalable engineering organizations.
How do you build a high-performing engineering team in the AI era? And will AI make fundamental engineering skills obsolete? In this episode, Mohan Krishnan, Head of Engineering at Grab, shares lessons from leading transformational engineering teams and the future of tech in Southeast Asia.
How has Infrastructure as Code changed in the last five years? In this episode, Kief Morris returns to discuss the third edition of his book “Infrastructure as Code.” Learn how to align infrastructure with business needs and manage today's growing infrastructure complexities.
Ever wondered how AI is being applied in the world of clinical trials where human lives are at stake? In this episode, Patrick Leung, CTO of Faro Health and former Google Duplex Engineering Lead, reveals how AI is transforming the clinical trial process that normally costs billions and takes years to complete.
Is your engineering team running like the wild, wild west? In this episode, Ganesh Datta, co-founder and CTO of Cortex, explores what it takes to achieve engineering excellence. We also discuss how platform engineering and IDPs can help teams scale, improve reliability, and align with business outcomes.
Is your software development process stuck on a conveyor belt? In this episode, experienced CPTO, Klaus Breyer, explains how to break free from outdated manufacturing mindsets and build truly high-performing, agile teams that 'Move Fast and Break Silos.'
Is AI taking over the craft of coding? In this episode, Annie Vella discusses her recent ACM paper on AI’s impact on software development, including the trade-offs between speed vs quality and the emerging software engineer identity crisis in the age of AI coding assistants.
What if your most critical systems run on code that no one fully understands? In this episode, Omer Rosenbaum, CTO and co-founder of Swimm, explains how to use AI to close the knowledge gap in your legacy codebase. He also shares practical advice for how junior developers can thrive in the AI era.
