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Software engineering isn't just strategy and sprint plans. It's ambiguity, pressure, trade-offs, and people.
Thriving In Engineering helps you navigate all of it.
In the newsletter, Alex Ponomarev distills 25 years of engineering leadership into practical frameworks to help you lead with confidence, stay calm under pressure, and build thriving teams.
The podcast goes deeper, talking to engineers, leaders, and builders across the industry about what AI transformation actually looks like in practice, past the headlines and hype. One guest at a time.
Thriving In Engineering helps you navigate all of it.
In the newsletter, Alex Ponomarev distills 25 years of engineering leadership into practical frameworks to help you lead with confidence, stay calm under pressure, and build thriving teams.
The podcast goes deeper, talking to engineers, leaders, and builders across the industry about what AI transformation actually looks like in practice, past the headlines and hype. One guest at a time.
Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
33 minutes
English
United States
9 episodes
since June 30, 2026
episodic
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Carol Palombini is a Leadership & Culture Consultant specializing in the human side of AI adoption. A psychologist, former Head of HR, and executive coach with extensive experience working with technology leaders, she helps organizations assess whether their leaders, people, and culture are rea…
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Elena Calvillo is an independent product builder based in Mexico City. After more than a decade in enterprise product management, she went independent in January 2026 and now builds her own products full time, including DraftKit, an async writing workspace for Substack creators. She writes Prompt-L…
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Colette Molteni works in data analytics and AI governance inside a major tech company, where her job has shifted in the last six months from building dashboards and presenting to leadership to building the AI agents that do that work instead. She also writes Empathy Elevated, a newsletter on human …
Roman Nikolaev is Head of Technology at Cambri, a Nordic research tech company whose AI-first platform helps global brands like Nestlé and Coca-Cola test product concepts before launch. He's also the author of High Impact Engineering, a Substack newsletter on practical, field-tested guidance for en…
Shamim Rajani is COO and co-founder of Genetech, a software development company with 100+ people and offices in Karachi and Detroit serving clients across North America and Europe. She's also co-founder of Code Girls, a bootcamp that has trained over 2,000 women in Pakistan's tech industry, former …
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