ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Conversations with software engineers who have progressed beyond the career level, into Staff levels and beyond. We discuss the areas of work that set Staff-plus level engineers apart from other individual contributors; things like setting technical direction, mentorship and sponsorship, providing engineering perspective to the org, etc.Hosted by David Noël-Romas (@davidnoelromas) and Alex Kessinger (@voidfiles).
Update frequency:
every 26 days
Average audio length:
45 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
28 episodes
since March 30, 2021
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~79.51% of listeners are from Germany.
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DE
79.51%
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US
12.33%
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HK
2.64%
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CA
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TJ
1.10%
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IL
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SE
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FR
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GB
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PL
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MX
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NL
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DK
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Others
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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Dylan Vassallo is an engineering manager at OpenAI leading the People Innovation Labs team — an eng, product, and design team embedded within the People org, building AI-powered tools for recruiting, HR, internal comms, and the employee experience.In this episode, Dylan talks about what it actually…
Hosts: Alex Kessinger & David Noël-Ramos
Guest: Karynn Ikeda — Former Engineering Manager → AI Enablement Program Manager at Babylist @ktikeda
Karynn Ikeda shares the full arc of how Babylist adopted AI across its engineering organization — from a six-week Windsurf pilot on a single team, to c…
Will Maier leads growth engineering at Stripe, where he's spent the last five years working across nearly every surface of the product. His background isn't CS — it's the history of science — and he's been through enough industry shifts (racking servers, the cloud transition, De…
After 3 years, we’re coming out of retirement, because something fundamental broke open in the last few months—something that changes everything about how we work.
We Don’t Know How to Learn This Yet
AI coding tools promise a 10X—maybe 100X—productivity boost. But here’s what we’re seeing: most eng…
This episode is a celebration of the journey we have been on as this podcast comes to a close. We have had such a great time bringing you these interviews and we are excited about a new chapter, taking the lessons we have learned forward into different spaces. It's been a lot of work putting t…
The structures of an organization can often be self-reinforcing, and in a changing environment, this becomes a recipe for future vulnerabilities. That is why senior ICs need to play a slightly discordant role at times by alerting teams to issues conventionally outside of their bubble of concern. Pe…
Often the biggest impacts a Staff Engineer can make in their organization are not technical but rather people-related. When teams are value-aligned due to good leadership, they go on to make larger impacts than they would otherwise have. As Senior Principal Engineer at Dropbox for almost a decade, …
Staff engineers may not get much time to code anymore, but this does not mean problem-solving and system design is not an integral part of their day-to-day. Today’s guest is Bryan Berg, Staff Engineer at Stripe, and he joins us to talk about the nuances of his position and his unique approach to th…
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