Podcasts by Level-up Engineering

Open Source Stories: How OSS Developers and Communities Shape the Future of Software Engineering from 2023-12-13T17:00

Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity, discusses various important aspects of open source software development. He talks about the decisions every company should make before embarking on an open source...

How to be a Great Leader and Manager: Strategies to Improve your Team - and their Results from 2023-11-29T17:15

Peter Anderton, Founder of Internal Alignment, shares actionable tips to become a better leader by creating alignment, fighting your own ego, improving your listening skills and appreciating the...

From IC to CEO: Software Engineer Career Development from 2023-11-15T17:30

Level-up your software engineer career development through other professionals’ stories: meet Max Rudman, CEO of Prodly, who went from IC to CEO over the years and has even founded a startup of ...

AI Deployment 101: The Considerations of Safely Deploying AI in the Enterprise from 2023-11-01T17:43

Interview with Varun Mohan, CEO & Co-Founder of Exafunction and Codeium. He gives valuable insights on the considerations of AI deployment in the enterprise and shares his own thoughts and p...

Communicating Your Engineering Team’s Impact at Work - Tips for Leaders from 2023-10-18T19:00

Interview with Dan Lines, CPO and Co-Founder of LinearB. He talks about the importance of representing engineering teams and gives valuable advice on how to start communicating your team’s impa...

Open source advocacy: The benefits of open source software from 2023-10-11T19:00

Interview with Joey Wilhelm, Security Engineer at Pinwheel. He talks about the benefits of open source software and gives great advice for companies who want to join the open source community. <...

Books for software engineers: Nature-inspired ways to scale software delivery from 2023-09-27T19:00

Interview with Yaron Perlman, author of the book DevStreams: Scaling Software Delivery. Naturally. He talks about the main ideas of DevStreams - a new paradigm for scaling software deli...

Managing Workplace Stress via Breathing Techniques from 2023-04-12T19:00

Interview with Alan Watkins, CEO and Founder of Complete. He talks about managing workplace stress through breathing techniques and overcoming our animal instincts.

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Building and Running Teams That Prioritize Innovation from 2023-03-08T19:00

Interview with Morgan Teachworth, VP of Engineering at Cisco Meraki. He shares valuable insights on building and managing innovation-oriented teams.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building Successful Analytics Engineering Teams from 2023-02-15T19:00

Interview with Gopal Erinjippurath, CTO and Head of Product at Sust Global. He shares valuable insights on how to build and manage analytics engineering teams.

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How to Prevent Quiet Quitting - Setting Healthy Boundaries at Work from 2023-02-01T19:00

Interview with Sophie Wade, Founder of Flexcel Network. She talks about quiet quitting and how empathy can help employees and leaders deal with difficult workplace situations.

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How to Deal With Information Overload - A Leader’s Guide to Managing Communications from 2023-01-11T19:00

Interview with Hadi Hariri, VP of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains. He talks about the challenge of dealing with the constant influx of information, creating processes to manage information overl...

Process Management 101: The Secrets of Efficient and Engaging Processes from 2022-11-30T19:00

Interview with Rod Garcia, VP of Engineering at Slack. He talks about the importance of understanding the big picture before implementing processes, shares the steps he uses to determine if a pr...

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time - A Leader’s Guide to Energy Management from 2022-11-09T19:00

Interview with James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify. He talks about setting yourself up for success by planning for the unexpected, goal- and achievement tracking and keeping your c...

How to Choose the Right Tech Stack - A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation from 2022-10-26T19:00

Interview with Steven Lopez, VP of Engineering, Technology and Operations at Deem. We go through real life examples and take a deep dive into choosing the right tech stack for your business and ...

The Ultimate Guide to Building High-Performance Teams in Tech from 2022-10-12T19:00

Interview with Álvaro Moya, Founder of LIDR.co. He shares his approach to building high-performance teams. He talks about the importance of clearly defined values and goals within the company, a...

How to Start a DAO in the DeFi Space - Building 1inch Network from 2022-09-29T19:00

Interview with Sergej Kunz, Co-founder of 1inch Network. He shares valuable advice on how to start a DAO, and talks about his own experience creating such organization in the DeFi space.

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Leadership Stories from Blockdaemon, the Top Blockchain Infrastructure Scaleup from 2022-09-14T19:00

Interview with Lloyd Moore, VP of Engineering at Blockdaemon. He talks about building and keeping well-aligned teams, planning for success, and reacting to the quick changes of the blockchain fi...

The Manager’s Role in Engineer Coaching and Career Development from 2022-08-31T19:00

Interview with Somer Esat, Senior Engineering Manager at Blizzard. He talks about the role of engineering managers in engineer coaching and career development.

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OKR Performance Management for Value-Driven Teams - Case Study from EA Games from 2022-08-17T19:00

Interview with Jehanzeb Khan, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Electronic Arts. He shares his tips and experience on implementing OKR performance management.

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Guide to Building Cross-Functional Collaboration In Software Engineering from 2022-08-03T19:00

Interview with Ritendra Datta, Director of Engineering at Meta. He gives valuable advice on improving cross-functional collaboration by holding empathy sessions and scal...

Screw SCRUM: Guide to Building a Truly Agile Organization from 2022-07-20T19:00

Interview with Tyler Hartley, Director of Software Engineering at Johnson & Johnson. He talks about the philosophies, habits and challenges of truly agile organizati...

The Secret to Productive IT Audits: Master the Process from 2022-07-06T19:00

Interview with Steve Tauber, CTO at madewithlove. He shares his secrets to productive IT audits from preparation to execution.

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How to Manage Culture Change in the Workplace as Your Team Grows from 2022-06-22T19:00

Interview with Pau Minoves, CTO at Typeform. He talks about leaders' role in managing culture change in the workplace during rapid growth in a company's scaleup phase.

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Engineering Management Trends 2022 from 2022-06-08T19:00

State of Engineering Management 2022 report

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How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation from 2022-05-25T19:00

Interview with David Siegel, CEO at Meetup. He talks about ways the leaders at Meetup and he has been utilizing to motivate employees and combat the Great American Resignation.

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Behind the Scenes of Building a Star Wars FPS - Video Game Engineering Stories from 2022-05-11T19:00

Interview with Charles Roman, Technical Director at Respawn Entertainment. He talks about setting up, leading, and scaling the engineering team behind Respawns' upcoming Star Wars FPS with no of...

Platform Engineering 101: Takeaways from Building Internal Tools at HubSpot from 2022-04-27T19:00

Interview with Zoe Sobin, Senior Engineering Manager at HubSpot. She tells her story of turning an engineering project into a centralized platform solution and how he managed communication, prio...

Top Methods for Building Trust in Virtual Teams from 2022-04-13T19:00

Interview with Anand Safi, Senior Engineering Leader at Mark43. He covers methods and metrics for building trust in virtual teams while telling his story of taking over a newly founded remote te...

Software Engineering Ethics Manifesto by Uncle Bob Martin from 2022-03-30T19:00

Interview with Robert C. Martin a.k.a. Uncle Bob. He explains his views and ideas about the need for a set of software engineering ethics, universal quality standards and how they may translate ...

Guide to Improve Organizational Decision Making: Restructuring Foursquare from 2022-03-16T19:00

Interview with Ankit Patel, SVP of Engineering at Foursquare. He explains how he realized that Foursquare's decision making process requires a rehaul, and what he did to completely restructure t...

Customer Obsession in Action - Case Study from Mailchimp from 2022-03-02T19:00

Interview with Maura Kelly, VP of Engineering at Mailchimp about injecting customer obsession into software engineering. She details organizing an event to actualize customer obsession and promo...

From Manager to Director: Guide to Managing Managers from 2022-02-16T19:00

Interview with Mike Seavers, VP of Online Development at Epic Games about becoming a manager of managers. He talks about his hardships as a new director, he tells the story of overcoming them, a...

How to Lead with Empathy in a Remote Environment from 2022-02-02T19:00

Interview with Jossie Haines, VP of Engineering and Head of DEI at Tile. She talks about the place of empathy in leadership and in the workplace in general, and shares her stories about masterin...

The Ultimate Guide to Prepare Your Team to Scale from 2022-01-19T19:00

Interview with Joseph Gefroh, Engineering Director at HealthSherpa. He goes into detail about preparing a team to scale up. He shares his experiences and tells stories about what processes do yo...

Principles of Decision Making: User’s Manual to Leadership from 2022-01-05T19:00

Interview with James Trunk, VP of Engineering at Griffin. He talks in-depth about coming up with his principles of decision making, the ways you can do the same, and their utility in leadership....

Guide to Leadership and Work-Life Balance for You and Your Team from 2021-12-15T19:00

Interview with Dylan Hansen, Senior Director of Engineering Enablement and Engagement at Salesforce. He talks about leadership and work-life balance, telling stories and tips about improving it ...

The Secrets of Productive Virtual Offsites - Tips from GitHub from 2021-12-01T18:00

Interview with Allison McMillan, Director of Engineering at GitHub. She shares her best virtual offsite ideas, hands out some tips you can try yourself and warns you of the pitfalls to avoid. Re...

Scaling Your Leadership with Your Company: Case Study from Prezi from 2021-11-17T17:00

Interview with Jose Roca, VP of Product and Engineering at Prezi. He tells his story about going from shy kid to great engineering leader, building and scaling Prezi's platform team, overcoming int...

Managing Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering? from 2021-11-03T20:00

Interview with Camille Fournier, Managing Director and Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma. She talks about the role of platform teams, the most important skills for platform engineers, cr...

The Importance of Writing in Software Engineering from 2021-10-20T03:00

Interview with Erica Greene, Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy about the importance of writing in software engineering. She goes into details about why you need to write well, how to get good a...

Leadership and Systems Thinking: Clear Sight for Complex Decisions from 2021-10-06T05:00

Interview with Pat Kua, former engineering leader, current leadership coach about applying systems thinking to management. We start from the defintion systems thinking and discuss applying it to...

Scaling your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt from 2021-09-22T07:00

Interview with Radoslav Stankov, Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He tells stories about him going from IC to Head of Engineering, the different stages he led through Product Hunt, the challeng...

Creating an Internship Program for Software Engineers - Case Study from Redbubble from 2021-09-08T07:00

Interview with Tom Sommer, Director of Engineering at Redbubble about creating an internship program for software engineers. Tom tells stories about setting up the internship program at Redbubbl...

Performance Review: Build Your Process and Master Feedback Delivery from 2021-08-25T07:00

Interview with Lara Hogan, legendary leadership coach and former engineering leader about building a performance review process. Lara goes into detail about building a process from the bottom up...

How to Engage Remote Employees: Tips to Lead Distributed Teams from 2021-08-04T07:00

Interview with Greg Dick, Senior Engineering Manager at Hudl about building engagement with remote employees in distributed teams. They miss out on a lot of professional and personal interaction...

Leadership Stories from Slack by Michael Lopp from 2021-07-14T07:00

Interview with Michael Lopp, Rands about his time as VP of Product Engineering at Slack. He tells stories about the darkest day of Slack, the mistakes he made along the way and how he grew into ...

How to Hire Entrepreneurial Engineers and Why You Need Them from 2021-06-30T07:00

Interview with Mark Kinsella, VP of Engineering at Opendoor about what makes entrepreneurial engineers great and how to lead them. We go in-depth from the definition through the key qualities of...

How to Keep Remote Meetings Productive and Your Schedule Under Control from 2021-06-16T07:00

Interview with Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range about structuring, scheduling and making your remote meetings productive. Learn from her stories about handling an avalanche of remote meeting...

Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games from 2021-06-02T07:00

Interview with Mike Seavers, former CTO at Riot Games about building self-managed teams for high performance. Learn from a seasoned leader about making sure you have the right people, and coach ...

Software Development Trends 2021 from 2021-05-19T07:00

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Managing Hybrid Teams: How to Keep Your Team Engaged and Productive from 2021-04-28T07:00

Interview with Ellen Wong, Director of Engineering at Calm about leading partially remote and partially on-site ...

Leadership in Hypergrowth: A Case Study from Shapr3D from 2021-03-31T07:00

Interview with Ákos Kapui, VP of Engineering at Shapr3D. He talks about running an engineering organization in hypergrowth, doubling its employee count every year. Pick up his tips, tricks, and ...

From Engineer to CEO: How to Start a Tech Company from 2021-03-17T07:00

Interview with Taavi Rehemägi, co-founder and CEO of Dashbird. He tells the story of founding Dashbird, and what it took for him to go from software engineer to CEO. Learn how he built his netwo...

Leadership Soft Skills: Master Your Own Mind to Lead Your Team to Success from 2021-02-17T07:00

Interview with Gergely Hodicska "Felhő", VP of Engineering at Bitrise. We take a deep dive with him into leadership soft skills and his story about finding his weaknesses and turning them into s...

Remote Onboarding: How to Save New Hires from Social Isolation from 2021-02-03T07:00

Interview with Jerie Shaw, Senior Technical Program Manager at Shopify about building a remote onboarding process to suit the needs of remote software engineers. Coming up with new ways to get d...

Improve Team Performance and Turn Around Underachieving Engineering Teams from 2021-01-20T07:00

Interview with John Ford, VP of Engineering and Site Leader at LogMeIn about his management framework to turn around underachieving teams and improve overall team performance. Learn from his pra...

Knowledge Sharing: A Sneak Peek into Facebook’s Engineering Teams from 2021-01-06T07:00

Interview with Balázs Balázs, former Engineering Manager at Facebook about the knowledge sharing strategies he's used over the years with his engineering teams. You'll get tips, tricks and real ...

The Ultimate Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders from 2020-12-09T07:00

Panel discussion interview with Sarah Milstein, Sr. Director of Engineering at Mailchimp, and Tanisha Barnett, Director of Engineering at Mailchimp. They get into the details of holding skip lev...

Managing for Happiness: Tips to Run a Productive Engineering Team from 2020-11-25T07:00

Interview with Jurgen Appelo, leadership speaker, writer and entrepreneur. He is an expert on the topic of managing teams to maximize happiness, which heavily bolsters productivity. Learn his ti...

Software Engineer Resume: Tips to Get in the Door at Hot Tech Companies from 2020-11-11T07:00

Interview with Gergely Orosz, self-employed author of 'The Tech Resume Inside Out', former Engineering Manager at Uber.

He shares unique insight into the process of hiring for a b...

How to Make the Spotify Model Work for You - Hint: Don’t Copy Blindly from 2020-10-28T07:00

Interview with Jonathan Rasmusson, ex-Spotify engineer and author of 'Competing with Unicorns' about the key elements of making the Spotify model work.

Squads, tribes and guilds a...

Software Engineer Career Ladder: Don’t Copy-Paste, Make Your Own! from 2020-10-14T07:00

Interview with Tim Olshansky, EVP of Product & Engineering at Zenput on creating a software engineer career ladder for your own team.

This isn't a template you can just copy and paste,...

Diversity in Recruiting: Road to Inclusion in Tech from 2020-09-30T07:00

Interview with Ola Sitarska, Engineering Lead at Onfido about addressing diversity and inclusion at the base level: integrating these values into your recruitment process.

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From Junior to Senior Developer and Beyond: Farhan Thawar (VP of Engineering, Shopify) from 2020-09-16T07:00

Software engineers, like any other person can get stuck. Their personal development slows down, their career may not move in the direction they want to go to.

Great engineering managers an...

GitHub's Feedback Culture: Ryan Nystrom (Director of Engineering, GitHub) from 2020-09-02T07:00

GitHub versus Facebook feedback culture comparison with a breakdown of their key elements and cultural differences. Learn the secrets of a healthy feedback culture both on an organizational and ...

One-on-One Meeting Guide: James Stanier (SVP of Engineering, Brandwatch) from 2020-08-19T07:00

Avoid the rookie mistakes engineering managers and engineering leaders make at running one-on-one meetings. James Stanier, SVP of Engineering at Brandwatch, and author of "Become an Effecti...

HubSpot's Secret for Onboarding Engineering Leaders: Nadia Alramli (Engineering Director, HubSpot) from 2020-08-05T07:00

Building trust across the board and becoming familiar with the whole context of a company is a common challenge for engineering leaders and managers as they transition to a new workplace. Nadia ...

Antifragile - Manage Your Team Under Pressure: Adam Wolff (VP of Engineering, Robinhood) from 2020-07-22T07:00

Learn how to build an engineering team that not only survives under pressure, but consistently gets better. Adam Wolff explains the key ideas you need to know to make your team antifragile, and ...

Engineering Leadership 101: Michael Lopp aka"Rands" from 2020-07-08T07:00

Learn the basics of engineering leadership from seasoned veteran and praised writer of the leadership world: Michael Lopp a. k. a. "Rands". Everything you need to know is in this interview, so y...

Build Your Employer Brand In Engineering: Sarah Wells (Technical Director, Financial Times) from 2020-06-24T07:00

Do you want access to the best talent out there in the tech world? Obviously. This is why you need to build your engineering employer brand. You aren't Google or Netflix, you may not even become...

Time Management Masterclass for Engineering Managers: Matt Martin (CEO, Clockwise) from 2020-06-10T07:00

Learn the top time management and productivity tips, tricks, hacks and practices engineering managers use to get on top of their endless mountain of work. Profit from the hard-earned experience ...

How to Create a Culture Document: Rob Volk (CEO, Foxbox Digital) from 2020-05-27T07:00

Learn the steps of creating a culture document for an engineering company! In this interview Rob Volk reveals why Foxbox Digital needed a culture document, and what impact it had on their day-to...

3 Leadership Styles for a Productive Engineering Team: Shawn Fair (Leadership Coach, CEO, Fair Consulting Group) from 2020-05-20T07:00

Master these 3 leadership styles to build an amazing engineering team and maximize your own potential as well. In this interview with Shawn Fair, you'll learn how, when, and why to use the democ...

Social Engineering: Olivia Liddell (Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services) from 2020-05-13T07:00

Utilize social engineering tactics to make your developer team stronger and more productive than ever before. In this interview, Olivia Liddell from Amazon Web Services shows you how to use soci...

Leading vs Managing: András Fincza (VP of Engineering at Emarsys) from 2020-04-29T07:00

Leading vs managing comparison, true stories of failures, shortcomings, struggles and solutions that lead to success in an executive leadership position. András Fincza, VP of Engineering, Emarsy...

Clean Code for Managers: Robert C. Martin, a.k.a. Uncle Bob from 2020-04-22T07:00

Clean code is the most essential part of building great software with your team. In this interview Uncle Bob shares half a century worth of experience and practical tips about measuring code qua...

Transition from Engineer to Manager: Jeff Perry, Engineering Leadership Coach from 2020-04-15T07:00

You've just become a manager, and don't know where to start? You're close to a promotion, and want to be ready? It's unclear what you should focus on, how to get accepted, and how to streamline ...

Software Development Trends 2020: Camille Fournier and Juan Pablo Buriticá from 2020-04-01T07:00

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