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Mastering operational health at Vanta
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Sep 4, 2024 · 45 min
In this episode, Rebecca talks with Iccha Sethi, the new VP of Engineering at Vanta. They discuss taking stock of an engineering organization as a new VP, how technical engineering managers need to be, and her work at Github, Atlassian, Invision, and now Vanta around operational health.
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Aug 8, 2024 · #17
Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb
Emily Nakashima, VPE at Honeycomb, shares her experience about the hard choices an engineering leader has to make about how to structure — and sometimes restructure — their engineering org.
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May 28, 2024 · #16
What makes a Platform Team work
Mason Jones recently started a new role at Zapier, where he’s bringing his platform leadership experience from Lattice and Credit Karma.
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May 13, 2024 · #15
Pulling off a multi-month tech debt paydown project
Alice Bartlett, Tech Director for Customer Products at the Financial Times, shares what it takes to introduce modern technology to a 136-year-old company and how to successfully lead significant efforts to re-architect understandable but unfortunate decisions of the past.
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Apr 30, 2024 · #14
The evolution of data engineering in the age of AI
Colleen Tartow, Field CTO and Head of Strategy at VAST Data, shares her experience from years in data engineering leadership roles.
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Apr 8, 2024 · #13
Building scaleups without hero culture
Andrea Corey is a VP of Engineering for platform engineering at Homebase. Before her current role, she has built engineering organizations at multiple startups and scaleups — and knows exactly what pitfalls to avoid.
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Mar 20, 2024 · #12
Change: It’s a long game
Liz Hustedt is a Senior Engineering Manager at ActBlue, an American political action committee and fundraising platform established serving left-leaning and Democratic nonprofits and politicians.
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Mar 6, 2024 · #11
Crafting a career at the intersection of tech and people
Scott Bonneau is the EVP of Product and Operations at Karat, the end-to-end solution for technical hiring. Before Karat, Scott has worked in various engineering and HR roles at Google and Indeed.
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Dec 8, 2023 · #10
Introducing metrics to an engineering organization with Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard has been a cofounder and a vice president of engineering, including leadership stints at Travis CI and CircleCI.
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Nov 6, 2023 · #9
Like a Fitbit for engineering teams with Grant Jenks from LinkedIn
Grant Jenks is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn where he works in the Insights & Analytics team — or the Fitbit for engineering teams.
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Sep 29, 2023 · #8
Reflecting on ladders, acquisitions, and personal trajectory after 8 years at Sentry with Ben Vinegar
Ben Vinegar has spent the last 8 years at Sentry in a variety of roles, from Software Engineer to VP of Engineering, and now GM of Syntax.fm, the company’s most recent acquisition.
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Aug 25, 2023 · #7
Design systems and other internal platforms as products with David Demaree from Webflow
This time, Rebecca is joined by David Demaree who’s a Principal Product Manager at Webflow, where he helps lead the designer experience effort.
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Aug 9, 2023 · #6
Success is more than headcount with Alex Plugaru, CTO at Gorgias
In this episode, Rebecca Murphey interviews Alex Plugaru, CTO and co-founder of Gorgias, who shares his unique perspective on how to scale software without maximizing headcount.
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Jul 13, 2023 · #5
Scaling engineering at Wolt with CTO Niilo Säämänen
Niilo is the CTO of Wolt, a subsidiary of DoorDash. In this episode, he talks to Swarmia founder and CEO Otto Hilska about lessons learned while rapidly scaling an engineering organization from 0 to 500+ developers.
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Jun 6, 2023 · #4
Hypergrowth, B2B vs B2C, and welcoming the rest of the world to AI with Heidi Williams from Grammarly
This time, Rebecca is joined by Heidi Williams who runs the engineering organization of Grammarly Business.
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Jun 6, 2023 · #3
Transforming delivery time at a pivotal moment with Jack Humphrey
Jack Humphrey, now an Engineering Director at LinkedIn, shares the story of how he radically improved the productivity of more than 1,000 engineers in a previous role.
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Jun 6, 2023 · #2
Making the jump from line manager to director — essentially overnight with Christian Helvin from Tithely
In this episode, we hear from Christian Helvin, who works as an Engineering Director at Tithely.
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Jun 6, 2023 · #1
Growing up DevProd: 5 years of improving efficiency at Stripe with Ainsley Escorce-Jones
On today’s show, Rebecca chats with Ainsley Escorce-Jones, Tech Lead for the Developer Infrastructure organization at Stripe.
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