Podcasts by Geeks Who Lead Podcast
Hear the inside stories of the "geeks who lead at scale" - Directors, VPs and CTOs running software engineering orgs at larger companies with 100+ engineers, and interviews with domain experts who can help those leaders to manage their engineering orgs more effectively.
I'm your host - Peter Bell, I've been helping senior engineering leaders to connect with and learn from their peers since 2010!
This podcast is designed for engineering leaders who want to learn the latest good practices from their peers who are way too busy operating to write an article or publish a book!
Running a software engineering org at scale is hard! You need to manage stakeholder expectations, attract and retain top talent, align and structure your org effectively and keep up with the latest processes and tooling. And that's before we even try to make sense of the potential impact of LLMs and GenAI on managing technical teams.
Our podcast and weekly newsletter provide you with access to hard-won wisdom from top engineering leaders and relevant domain experts. Learn more at https://geekswholead.com/
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Short Byte: Erik Peterson - Managing cloud costs from 2022-02-10T07:00
As cloud costs continue to become a bigger business expense, it’s increasingly important to have a proactive strategy for managing and understanding cloud costs rather than waiting for a call f...
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Short Byte: Dan Langevin - Building an engineering culture of accountability and curiosity from 2022-01-27T07:00
As companies scale, it’s always a challenge to ensure that the dev team is as committed and passionate about the product as the founders. In this episode, I chat with Dan Langevin, Cofounder and...
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Short Byte: Mark Van de Wiel - Managing an engineering team through an acquisition from 2022-01-13T07:00
What 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 i...
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Short Byte: Marko Gargenta - Tech enablement - the hard part of developer education from 2021-12-30T07:00
The 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 cours...
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Short Byte: Ramana Satyavarapu - Engineering management vs leadership from 2021-12-23T07:00
Ramana 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 Netwo...
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Short Byte: Ron Lichty - Starting a new engineering leadership role from 2021-12-16T07:00
For 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 c...
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Short Byte: David Subar - How to choose a CTO coach from 2021-12-09T07:00
No 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 co...
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Short Byte: Joe Bradley - Leveraging conversational AI from 2021-12-02T07:00
Conversational 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 LivePerso...
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Short Byte: Claudius Mbemba - Sustaining culture within a remote-first team from 2021-11-25T07:00
We'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...
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Short Byte: Labhesh Patel - Diversity, Inclusion and Bias in AI Systems from 2021-11-18T07:00
Most 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 epi...
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Short Byte: Charlie Reverte - Retaining your team during the'great resignation' from 2021-11-11T07:00
The 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, creatin...
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Short Byte: Jossie Haines - Empathy and Inclusion in Engineering Leadership from 2021-11-04T07:00
To 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 managem...
Short Byte: Ben John - Managing engineering at scale from 2021-10-21T07:00
In 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 c...
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Short Byte: Anne Lise Waal - Gaming the enterprise from 2021-10-07T08:00
It'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 ...
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Short Byte: Colin Earl - How and why CTOs should engage with no-code tools from 2021-09-23T08:00
They'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 departmenta...
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Short Byte: Mark Reese - Starting from somewhere else from 2021-09-09T08:00
Wellington, 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 R...
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Short Byte: Anurag Gupta - The importance of automating production ops from 2021-08-12T14:00
While running database services for AWS, Anurag Gupta, now Founder & CEO of Shoreline.io, learned the importance of going beyond monitoring and incident res...
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Short Byte: Rob Zuber - Being an executive first from 2021-07-30T12:00
As 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 leverag...
Short Byte: Tim Olshansky - Managing hybrid remote teams from 2021-06-17T13:00
Short 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 bac...
Building Teams that create Customer Success w. Ingrid Alongi from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.776328
Ingrid Alongi is the co-founder of Quickleft, a software development firm in Boulder Colorado which was acquired by Cognizant in March of 2016.
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Rethinking Education from First Principles w. Manuel Mattke from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.676304
Manuel Mattke is an innovator, entrepreneur, tech product guy (and from time to time developer), with a background in finance, technology, and innovation consulting.
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Building Successful Distributed Teams – Gevorg Hovsepyan from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.674862
Gevorg was the Co-Founder/CTO of LionSharp, where he led the development of Gesture and Voice controlled systems.
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Hire Engineers that are Smarter Than You Are w. Jud Valeski from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.670306
This week’s episode is from the archives. It’s an interview with Jud Valeski. Jud was a co-founder of Gnip (acquired by Twitter), a real-time data portability software initiative.
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Reinventing the Organization w. Dan Kador, CTO of Keen.io from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.664973
Dan Kador is the co-founder & CTO of Keen.io. He’s responsible for building the technology and team responsible for analytics via APIs (among a million other things) at Keen — a leader in the anal...
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From Zero to Sphero w. Ian Bernstein, CTO @Sphero from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.663748
Our guest this week is Ian Bernstein, CTO of Sphero. Sphero is creating a new category of toys called “Connected Toys” that take the best of what kids and adults love about their smart devices and...
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Mission Driven Tech w. Zack Bomsta, Owlet from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.659615
Our guest today is Zack Bomsta, CTO of Owlet, which produces the Owlet Baby Monitor.
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Optimize Your Learning Velocity w. Scott Carleton, Andela from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.655953
Our guest today is Scott Carleton. Scott has a passion for building communities and empowering self-growth through education. Scott is currently the VP of Technology at Andela, a global engineering...
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Programmable Money w. Piper Merriam from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.647911
Cryptocurrencies have the potential to be TCP/IP of money. What does the future look like if they do to money, what the internet did for information?
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AI, Automation, Jobs & The Economy w. Jeff Rose of ThinkTopic from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.646698
Jeff Rose presenting in a very special Boulder Startup Week 2017 talk. Artificial intelligence is undergoing a renaissance, with the number of relevant research papers, startups, applications, an...
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How to CTO w. Ed Johnson from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.642863
Our Boulder Startup Week episode streak continues. Today, we’ve got Ed Johnson, CTO of Goally on the show. Ed and his co-founders at Goally are on a mission to help parents build their children’s ...
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Ch-ch-changes (Announcements) from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.638567
Miles & Kevin announce some changes to the podcast.
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The Ethereum Ecosystem w. Raine Revere, Lead Architect at Prism from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.636933
Raine Revere is the Lead Architect at Prism — The world’s first trustless portfolio market platform. Join Raine and special guest co-host Kevin Seagraves as we discuss blockchain, ethereum, and the...
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The primacy of the network & Web 3.0 — Vince Horn & Ryan Oelke of CryptoMind from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.590583
Today's episode is a cross-post from Vincent Horn’s new podcast, Crypto-Mind. With permission, I’ve reposted it from Crypto-Mind podcast. This podcast is about contemplating deeply the societal,...
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Blockchain Nerdery w. Matt Walters & Rhys Lindmark from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.581986
We are joined this week by Matt Walters (Blockchain Engineer at Consensys, former Techstars CTO), and Rhys Lindmark (Independent Blockchain Engineer) for a very special Blockchain episode of Startu...
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Hire for Vigilance & Excellent Practical Judgement — Quin Hoxie w. Swiftype from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.579907
This episode is co-hosted by Jacob Ablowitz. We are honored today to be interviewing Quin Hoxie, founder and CTO of Swiftype. This episode covers Quin’s experiences as an engineer at Scrib, and...
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Blockchain is like Sriracha. It’s delicious on everything — Clay Collins & Nick Gauthier of Nomics.com from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.578490
Clay Collins & Nick Gauthier are founders of Nomics will be “Yahoo Finance for Crypto” and the internet’s home page for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. Nick Gauthier has been develop...
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Gitcoin — Grow Open Source w. Kevin Owocki / Changelog from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.576595
Today we are posting an interview for The Changelog that StartupCTO.io host Kevin Owocki recently did. From The Changelog: We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platfo...
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Welcome to the CTO Connection Podcast! from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.575592
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Setting Up Infrastructure to Scale with Adam Miller from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.567396
Infrastructure dictates scalability. No one understands this better than Adam Miller, Vice President of Engineering at Roblox. On today’s episode, Adam sat down with Peter to discuss the unique cha...
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Staying Immersed in Technology as a Tech Leader with Hector Aguilar from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.566256
The higher you ascend professionally, the less time you have to code and interact with your company’s product or technology. Hector Aguilar, President of Technology at Okta, believes that all manag...
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Transforming Education Through Technology with James Kenigsberg from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.562133
Education is the great equalizer and, in a world increasingly dominated by the internet, educational technology is the wave of the future. James Kenigsberg is CTO of 2U, a leading company in the ed...
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Challenges Facing CTOs of Large Organizations with David Schwartz of Ripple from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.558340
As the CTO of a large company, David Schwartz of Ripple sometimes wishes he had more time to get the instant gratification of writing a good line of code. On this week’s edition of CTO Connection, ...
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Balancing Engineering Craft with Customer and Company Needs with Ryan Graciano from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.557320
It’s hard to balance company and customer with craft. How do you get employees that care about customer satisfaction as well as hitting their deliverables? On today’s episode of CTO Connection, we ...
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Creating a Better Product using Tactical Empathy with Andrea Goulet from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.553433
Engineers tend to be reticent by nature. So how do you get them to relate to a word like empathy? This week, we’re speaking with Andrea Goulet, CEO of Corgibytes. Andrea’s background is in content ...
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Giving Effective Feedback with Chelsea Troy from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.549667
Everyone needs feedback but few know how to give it or to take it. This week on CTO Connection, we’re talking to Chelsea Troy, an engineering consultant at RigorWorks. Chelsea has designed a new pa...
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How to Interview Candidates Remotely with Shannon Hogue from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.545949
For companies that are now finding themselves with a fully remote workforce, how are you supposed to bring new people on? Shannon Hogue’s team at Karat are experts at interview engineering. Today, ...
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Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.545090
Is your company prepared for a major outage? Most companies aren’t, which is why Kolton Andrus’ company, Gremlin, is thriving. Gremlin uses chaos engineering to help companies foresee long term iss...
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Multiplayer Design and the Future of Work with Kunal Anand from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.540729
Today on CTO Connection, Peter and guest Kunal Anand reminisced on the excitement around ColdFusion. This led to an insightful discussion on what the current COVID-19 crisis can tell us about the f...
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Managing Technical Debt with James Smith from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.492492
We’re often so busy trying to get through bug fixes that we don’t see the forest for the trees. James Smith, CEO of Bugsnag, is our guest this week on CTO Connection. For James, managing technical ...
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Tackling Burnout as a CTO with Andy Skipper from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.485285
Burnout is a serious issue across industries, but CTO burnout is a unique beast. In startup culture, many CTOs are young and inexperienced and end up taking on too much before crashing and burning....
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Improving Communication between CEOs and CTOs with David Subar from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.478058
With so many stakeholders in a company, there are ample opportunities for miscommunication. CTOs may find themselves in an impossible situation: trying to meet the expectations of the CEO while man...
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Effective Mentorship in Early Stage Startups with Rob De Feo from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.471225
Over the last few years, Rob De Feo has acted as a mentor and advocate for startups. In speaking to leaders from more than 500 startups, Rob has discovered key insights on some of the patterns of t...
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API-First Companies with Paolo Negri from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.465963
Content Management Systems are notorious for their technical debt. Paolo Negri, co-founder and CTO of Contentful, wants to change all that by helping companies get their API in order. On this week’...
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Using Data Science to Deliver Tangible Business Outcomes with Ian Wong from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.464631
Data science is the hot new topic in software but many data scientists haven’t figured out how to think outside of their research to impact business goals. This week on CTO Connection, Ian Wong, co...
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Using ML/AI to Analyze Your Log Files with Christian Beedgen from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.462467
Analytics gleaned from log files are an essential component of any software business. Christian Beedgen, CTO and co-founder of Sumo Logic, felt that to innovate, offering these insights as a servic...
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Short Byte: Cat Miller 12/3/20 from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.460594
Culture work is part of a developers job - today I interviewed Cat Miller, VP Engineering at Flatiron Health to ask how they engage their complete engineering team in "culture work" and the benefit...
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Short Byte: James Smith - Building vs buying software from 2021-06-11T01:04:12.397810
Short Byte: James Smith - Building vs buying software
Building vs buying is always a fraught decision. Nominally buying a solution provides more capability and a quicker time to market, bu...
Short Byte: Jeff DeVerter - Do you even know what software your company is developing? from 2021-05-20T22:34:24
Short 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...
Short Byte: Jeffrey Spector - Why you have to improve your hiring process from 2021-03-31T18:50:48
Short 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 you...
Short Byte: Camille Fournier - Managing a product focused engineering org from 2021-03-11T17:00
Short 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 navigat...
Short Byte: Mai Irie - What to do when your engineering leader leaves from 2021-02-25T19:53:59
Short 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...
Short Byte: Lee Edwards - How to pick the right tech startup from 2021-02-20T00:48:54
Short 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 eff...
Short Byte: Johnny Ray Austin Measuring outcomes vs. inputs from 2021-02-13T00:32:59
Short 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 absolute...
Short Byte: Heidi WIlliams - Building a startup within a startup from 2021-01-29T22:10
Building 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 ...
Short Byte: Juan Pablo Buriticá 12/17/2020 - learning the craft of engineering management from 2020-12-17T19:26:37
JP 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 diffe...
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Globally Distributed Teams vs. Remote Teams with Gustavo Niemeyer from 2020-09-24T20:00
Having employees work remotely is not necessarily the same as having a globally distributed team. A globally distributed team means that employees can be hired no matter their country or time zone....
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Why Building for Flexibility is the New Paradigm with Julien Lemoine from 2020-09-17T20:00
When it comes to developing tools and architecture for businesses, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. While one stop shops like Squarespace and Shopify have sprung up over the years, the futur...
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Building Robust Commerce Platforms with Justin Dean from 2020-09-10T20:00
Over the course of Justin Dean’s career, he’s seen the rise of Napster, Shopzilla, and Ticketmaster. All of these companies had unique needs and challenges when it came to network engineering. Now,...
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Attracting Great Talent with Ashish Aggarwal from 2020-08-27T20:00
What do big companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Postmates have in common? For starters, they attract talented individuals and put a focus on customer obsession. As a veteran of all three of these...
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Why Customer Centricity is Key to Company Culture with Raj Sethuraman from 2020-08-20T20:00
You’ve probably heard the saying, “the customer is always right.” That may not be completely true, but your customers are the most valuable feedback you have. Raj Sethuraman is the CTO at Wolters K...
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Growing Individuals on Your Team with Greg Thomas from 2020-08-13T20:00
One of the traits of a good manager is the ability to help the people on your team develop into leadership roles. This week on CTO Connection, Greg Thomas, author of Code Your Way Up, discusses wha...
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Building a Team of 10x Engineers with Fleming Shi from 2020-07-30T20:00
One of the keys to staying motivated for the long-haul when it comes to innovation is staying up to date on trends. Fleming Shi is the CTO of Barracuda Networks and joins Peter for a discussion on ...
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How to Build a Data Science Team with Jon Morra from 2020-07-23T20:00
These days, more companies are turning to data scientists to solve pressing organizational problems and ethical questions. But many CTOs don’t have experience building a data science team. Jon Morr...
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What Does a VP of Engineering Do With Alexandra Paredes from 2020-07-16T20:00
Alexandra Paredes is the VP of Engineering at Code Climate. Today, she joins us on CTO Connection to talk about how a VP of Engineering actually spends their time. Alexandra discusses how she troub...
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How to Enact Change Within a Company with Andrew Fawcett from 2020-06-25T20:00
No one likes change. Some companies especially do not enjoy any deviation from the status quo. Andrew Fawcett is the CTO of Avantica and our guest this week on CTO Connection. Andrew spoke to Peter...
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Using Engineering Metrics in a Healthy Way with Dalia Havens from 2020-06-18T20:00
Dalia Havens has had an eclectic career spanning different paths. One thing she has learned from her time hopping around is the importance of metrics that assist in execution as opposed to focusing...
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A Playbook for Starting a Startup with Bob Friday from 2020-06-11T20:00
Wondering what it takes to start a new company? In this week’s episode we’re speaking to Bob Friday, CTO of Mist, a Juniper Company. Bob has co-founded several companies and is an expert at creatin...
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From Private Company to IPO: Managing through Transformation with Rachana Kumar from 2020-05-28T20:00:26
Rachana Kumar has worked in five different countries at all stages of management. Her tenure at Etsy has overseen a host of transformational changes. Today on CTO Connection, Rachana shares the thr...
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Continuous Learning in Engineering with Kwame Thomison from 2020-05-21T20:00:13
The term community of practice refers to a group of people who share a profession or a craft and engage regularly in continued learning. By creating the culture for a community of practice in your ...
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Remote Programming During a Pandemic with Kaj van de Loo from 2020-05-14T20:00:30
During the pandemic, remote work has been a lifeline to many companies and employees. But looking ahead, what processes can be put in place to make remote work seamless if the COVID-19 crisis goes ...
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How to Hire 100 Engineers in a Year with Cat Miller from 2020-04-30T20:00:08
When it comes to the hiring process, not only do you want to get the best candidates available, it’s also important to make sure the process is streamlined so that your current employees aren’t jus...
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10 Mantras for Productive Meetings with Douglas Ferguson from 2020-04-23T20:00:25
When your schedule, and that of your teams, is filled to the brim with meetings but you’re not seeing results, it’s time to reassess the effectiveness of your meetings. Douglas Ferguson, President ...
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Moving to a Cloud Native Architecture with Tolga Tarhan from 2020-04-16T20:00:13
You’ve heard the term “cloud native architecture,” but what does it really mean and how can an organization modernize their technology to achieve it? These are the questions Peter had for today’s g...
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Building and Managing Fully Remote Teams with David Blair from 2020-03-26T20:00:02
Technologically speaking, we’ve never been in a better position to have everyone working from home. Yet while we have more tools than ever at our fingertips, not everyone is sure how to work in thi...
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Making Better Decisions with Denise Iglesias from 2020-03-19T22:21:15
Sometimes good people make bad decisions. When you join a team and inherit those bad decisions, it can be a challenge to figure out why they were made in the first place. We’re talking to Denise Ig...
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Creating a Successful Labs Program with RC Johnson from 2020-03-12T20:00:04
Incubator teams are notoriously difficult to staff and tend to have a degree of uncertainty about what will happen if they fail. RC Johnson of Indeed dropped by to talk to Peter about the steps he’...
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How to Build an Inclusive Culture with James Turnbull from 2020-02-27T21:00:15
Tech companies are increasingly trying to attract diverse talent, but often don’t realize that hiring practices and office culture prevent qualified women and people of color from coming on board. ...
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Creating Inclusive Workplaces with Joann Anderson from 2020-02-20T21:00:06
Scoop Technologies has a mission to modernize carpools to make them more meaningful and fun for commuters. To do that, it all starts in-house by cultivating an inclusive work environment where peop...
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Breaking Codes, Designing Jets, and Building Teams with Randy Shoup from 2020-02-13T21:00:21
If we look at the history of engineering, we can get a good sense of some of the key attributes of effective leadership. Our guest this week, Randy Shoup, Consulting CTO, discusses how some of the ...
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Cultivating Cross-Functional Teams with Cai GoGwilt from 2020-01-30T21:00:07
When a company is experiencing rapid growth, managers can no longer rely on social interactions as the means to build cross-functional teams. In this edition of CTO Connection, Cai GoGwilt of Ironc...
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Balancing Coding and Management with Dhruba Borthakur from 2020-01-23T21:00:15
As a CTO for a SaaS company, Dhruba Borthakur believes in the necessity for managers to continue coding. He also wants to create a culture where he can delegate and empower people to make decisions...
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Trust, Delegation and Managing Managers with Raghavendra Prabhu from 2020-01-16T21:00
There’s a big difference between being a tech lead and being a manager. Becoming a manager involves a level of loss of control as you’re no longer the one shipping the code… you’re the one leading ...
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How to Build a Culture of Security with Nick Streaker from 2019-12-26T21:00
Technology can’t solve all problems. For this reason, it is imperative that you build a culture of security starting day one. In this week’s episode, Nick Streaker, CTO of ID Agent, a Kaseya compan...
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From Engineer to General Manager with Mike Reust from 2019-12-19T21:00
When coding is all you’ve ever known, how do you step into management without losing your bearings? On this week’s episode of CTO Connection, Mike Reust, former CTO and current President of Retail ...
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Engineering Apprenticeships and Ongoing Education with Andy Britcliffe from 2019-12-12T21:00
Learning does not end once you’ve earned your degree. Offering continuing education for employees across teams helps with employee retention and ensures that employees who really understand the bus...
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The Importance of Technical Due Diligence with Jason Mongue from 2019-11-28T22:00
Technical due diligence is one of the most important components of taking a new product to market. But most companies wait until they’re in the midst of venture capital fundraising before they give...
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Managing Large Remote Teams with Asana’s Prashant Pandey from 2019-11-21T21:00
Asana is a workflow management tool for teams and its Head of Engineering, Prashant Pandey, knows all about the unique problems inherent in trying to manage a large team. On this week’s episode of ...
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Balancing Delight and Metrics in Product Design with Adam Nash from 2019-11-14T18:00
In software, competition is fierce, so it makes sense that companies push design concepts based on metrics. Adam Nash, Vice President of Product and Growth at Dropbox, believes that’s only half the...
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Investing in Your People Pays Dividends with Scott Parker from 2019-07-18T16:30
Scott Parker has seen a lot over his 15 year career having transitioned from engineer to manager to executive. In this episode of the CTO Connection podcast, Peter and Scott discuss Scott’s approac...
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Learning and Developing as an Engineering Leader with Stacy Gorelik from 2019-06-28T13:00
This week Peter speaks with Stacy Gorelik, Director of Engineering at Flatiron Health, about her career progression from individual contributor to a director role, what she looks for when hiring an...
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Attracting and Developing Engineering Talent with Johnny Austin, Engineering Director @ Mapbox from 2019-06-22T23:30
In this episode of CTO Connection, host Peter Bell sits down with Johnny Austin, Engineering Director of Navigation at Mapbox, to discuss the best and most challenging aspects of engineering leader...
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Engineering Team Cohesion at Scale with Han Yuan, SVP of Engineering @ Upwork from 2019-05-24T15:30
This week, Peter Bell is joined by SVP of Engineering at Upwork, Han Yuan. Han and Peter dive into what it’s like to run an engineering team that spans countries, building a good engineering cultur...
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Building a truly global engineering team with Rebecca Parsons, CTO @ ThoughtWorks from 2019-05-11T00:00
In this episode of CTO Connection, host Peter Bell sits down with Rebecca Parsons, CTO of Thoughtworks, to discuss managing a large, truly global engineering team, the implications for current adva...
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Creative Product Delivery at Scale with Colin Bodell, CTO @ Groupon from 2019-04-25T23:00
Colin Bodell, CTO of Groupon, joins Peter Bell to discuss how to balance being open to unexpected opportunities while still delivering on today’s commitments, encouraging idea-sharing from all leve...
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Scaling Leadership in a Growing Tech Organization with Nick Caldwell, Chief Product Officer @ Looker from 2019-04-12T15:30
Nick Caldwell, Chief Product Officer of Looker, joins CTO Connection host Peter Bell to discuss the challenges of scaling leadership in a growing tech organization, moving from a 15-year career at ...
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Sustaining Open Source w. Eric Berry, CodeSponsor.io from 2017-10-23T12:00
Today, we are honored to have Eric Berry, founder of CodeSponsor.io Code Sponsor is a matchmaking platform for software developers and open source projects.
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Bootstrapped Developers from 2017-07-20T12:00
So you can build it… but, do you know what to do once it’s built? How to monetize it? How do you make enough money to live off of while your company takes off? In this episode, learn about how to g...
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How to CTO w. Kathy Keating from 2017-07-13T12:00
Our Boulder Startup Week episode streak continues. Today, we’ve got Kathy Keating, CTO of Apostrophe on the show. Kathy has helped build several successful technology startups, founded her own tec...
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How to CTO w. Nick Cheever from 2017-06-29T12:00
Our Boulder Startup Week episode streak continues. Today, we’ve got Nick Cheever, VP of Technology at 10-4 on the show. Nick has over 15 years of experience in product development, particularly in...
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Boulder Startup Week 2017 Dev War Stories from 2017-06-22T12:00
Hi and welcome to a very special Boulder Startup Week episode. This week we’ve got some stories from a session entitled “Dev War Stories”. If you’re a longtime listener, you know that this is one o...
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How to CTO with Andy Pai, Full Contact from 2017-06-15T12:00
This week’s guest is Andy Pai, VP Engineering at FullContact. FullContact is the most powerful, fully-connected contact management platform for professionals and enterprises who need to master thei...
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Crypto and the Law with EFA Colorado from 2017-05-25T12:00
EFA Colorado presenting in a very special Boulder Startup Week 2017 talk. What is Cryptography, and why does it matter?
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Your Startup is a Pirate Ship w. Jack Dietrich & Ryan VanMiddlesworth from 2017-04-27T12:00
Our guests this week are Jack Dietrich and Ryan VanMiddlesworth of Fount Studio.
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Find a Niche and Be The Best w. Courtland Allen of IndieHackers.com from 2017-03-23T12:00
Our guest this week is Courtland Allen; MIT graduate, Y Combinator alum, full-stack web developer, and professional designer.
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People First Organizations w. Dave Zwieback from 2017-03-16T12:00
Our guest today is Dave Zwieback, the author of Beyond Blame: Learning from Failure and Success and an engineering leader in various organizations in & around New York City.
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Understanding People is a Superpower; @rands, VP Engineering at Slack from 2017-02-23T14:00
Michael Lopp (also known as @rands) is a Silicon Valley-based engineering leader who builds both people and product at companies such as Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, and Apple.
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From Startup CTO to Acquired by Google — Anant Jhingran, CTO @Apigee from 2017-02-16T14:00
Anant Jhingran has been in the tech industry for 27 years and has a Ph.D. in Database Systems from Berkeley. He’s been at IBM, CTO of Apigee, and then after Apigee was acquired, at Google.
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Building for Massive Scale w. Tim Jenkins, CTO of SendGrid from 2017-01-26T12:00
Today we are honored to be joined by Tim Jenkins, CoFounder & CTO of SendGrid.
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Cross-Training with Sales & Marketing w/ Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) from 2017-01-19T14:00
(BONUS EPISODE FROM THE ARCHIVES) Learn about how Patrick McKenzie combined his technical skills with marketing/sales skills to launch & grow several successful internet businesses.
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Bend the Learning Curve by Consistently Putting Yourself into a Place You’re Uncomfortable — Kathy Keating from 2017-01-12T14:00
We’re joined this week by guest co-host Diana Pfeil to interview Kathy Keating — Kathy is a Colorado-based Startup CTO who has helped build several successful technology startups, founded her own ...
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Engineering Values Roundup from 2016-12-29T14:00
We ask each of our guests what their engineering values are.
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Advancing Your Career is like Playing Great Chess w. Chris McAvoy from 2016-12-22T13:00
We are joined this week by Chris McAvoy to talk about growing your people & their careers.
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Great Engineering War Stories from 2016-12-15T14:00
Last week, @owocki’s startup released a new product — The battles last week during this release reminded us of some of our favorite engineering war stories. We ask every CTO on our show “What is yo...
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Quantifying Engineering w. Travis Kimmel of Gitprime from 2016-11-24T14:00
We’re taking this week off; If you’re in the US, you’re celebrating Thanksgiving. If you’re not in the US, you can still give thanks — Listen to one of our favorite episodes from the archives: Qu...
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Scaling the Rocket Ship w. Julia Austin of DigitalOcean from 2016-11-17T14:00
Julia Austin is the CTO of DigitalOcean and a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School of Entrepreneurial Management.
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Web Security for Startup CTOs w. Andrew Useckas from 2016-11-10T13:42
Andrew Useckas is the CTO of Threat-X; a 10 person startup based out of Colorado that provides Web Application Firewalls as a Service.
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ZCash ($ZEC) – A blockchain for Privacy with Zooko Wilcox from 2016-10-28T14:00
Episode 0.8 of our Podcast was a Boulder Startup Week talk about ZCash by its founder; Zooko Wilcox. ZCash is a privacy-centric blockchain. Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but...
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Crossing the Chasm w. Brandon Purcell from 2016-10-27T13:00
Brandon Purcell is the CTO of SpatialKey; a leading geospatial intelligence analytics platform.
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Crossing the Chasm w. Brandon Purcell from 2016-10-27T09:00
Brandon Purcell is the CTO of SpatialKey; a leading geospatial intelligence analytics platform. SpatialKey...
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Crossing the Chasm w. Brandon Purcell from 2016-10-27T09:00
Brandon Purcell is the CTO of SpatialKey; a leading geospatial intelligence analytics platform. SpatialKey...
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