Jun 11, 2025 · #22Preserving culture and delivery speed through growthRebecca sits down with Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, to explore the challenges of building and scaling engineering culture at a fast-growing startup.Listen
Jun 4, 2025 · #21Developer productivity drivers and detractorsIn this episode, Rebecca sits down with Max Kanat-Alexander, Executive Distinguished Engineer for Developer Experience at Capital One, to explore the nuances of developer productivity and experience.Listen
Jan 3, 2025 · #20The science of developer experienceIn today’s episode, Rebecca chats with Kristen Foster-Marks, Head of Developer Experience at Depot. They discuss questionable “ghost engineer” research, why ethical, rigorous studies matter, and how developer experience makes a difference — even in a tough economy.Listen
Dec 16, 2024 · #19The state of DORA and developer productivityIn today’s episode, Rebecca talks with Nathen Harvey who leads the DORA group at Google Cloud. Nathen shares insights from the 10th annual DORA report, covering topics like the relationship between AI adoption and software stability, the importance of transformational leadership, and the role of quality documentation. Listen
Sep 4, 2024 · #18Mastering operational health at VantaIn 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. Listen
Aug 8, 2024 · #17Rising to engineering leadership challenges at HoneycombEmily 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. Listen
May 28, 2024 · #16What makes a Platform Team workMason Jones recently started a new role at Zapier, where he’s bringing his platform leadership experience from Lattice and Credit Karma. Listen
May 13, 2024 · #15Pulling off a multi-month tech debt paydown projectAlice 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.Listen
Apr 30, 2024 · #14The evolution of data engineering in the age of AIColleen Tartow, Field CTO and Head of Strategy at VAST Data, shares her experience from years in data engineering leadership roles.Listen