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Keeping software engineers in flow and unblocked is one of the key responsibilities of software development leaders. In each episode of the Engineering Unblocked podcast, Rebecca Murphey interviews leaders who have navigated challenges of scale, complexity, and growth. You’ll hear from people with lived experience across the software development ecosystem, from CTOs and VPEs to directors and line managers to product managers, program managers, tech leads, and more.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 42 days
Average audio length:
44 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
31 episodes
since June 2, 2023
episodic
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In this special episode, former Engineering Unblocked host Rebecca Murphey returns — now at Honeycomb — alongside Swarmia CEO Otto Hilska, to talk through the third edition of Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization: what changed between editions, what didn't, and where the industry …
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In this episode, Tara Hernandez shares what 18 months of rigorous AI experimentation taught her at MongoDB — including why the initial results showed negative ROI, and where her team eventually found the real productivity wins.
Tara explains how AI saved developers an hour a week on coding but had…
In this episode, Lada Kesseler shares what she’s learned from a year of hands-on experience building with AI coding tools — including the three fundamental challenges that define how these tools work, and why understanding limitations is what makes you better at using them.
Lada explains why “focus…
In this episode, Rob Zuber shares what he’s learned from over a decade as CTO at CircleCI — including why the current market requires CTOs to be more hands-on than ever, and why he doesn’t even know who his competitors are anymore.
Rob explains how his team deliberately encourages AI tool sprawl to…
In this episode, Michael Lopp shares what he's learned leading engineering teams at Slack, Pinterest, and Palantir — including why AI is delivering real but modest productivity gains, and why junior engineers churning out AI-generated code is probably slowing teams down.
Michael Lopp (Rands) bring…
In this episode, Titus Winters discusses his framework for optimizing software’s commercial value, why having humans in the deploy phase is pure toil, and how to think about engineering productivity investments.
Titus Winters brings infrastructure thinking to software economics — revealing why manu…
In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca talks with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, to explore the myths of engineering productivity and the importance of building systems that enable “normal” engineers to succeed.
Charity Majors tears down the myths of engineering exceptionalism — chall…
In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca sits down with Allan Leinwand, Chief Technology Officer at Webflow and serial engineering leader who has scaled teams at Slack, ServiceNow, and Shopify. Allan shares his unique perspective on what it takes to be a successful “scaling CTO” — the type…
In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca sits down with Kathryn Koehler, Director of Developer Productivity at Netflix, to explore the unique challenges of scaling engineering at a 20-year-old company.
The conversation dives deep into the complexities of building versus buying solutions, m…
In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca 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.
Julianna shares her journey from Plaid to founding an authentication and fraud prevention pl…
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