Geeks Who Lead Podcast
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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'...
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Performance Management at Indeed
Performance management has been a hot topic during this “year of efficiency”. In this Interview RC Johnson shares his experiences of building out, sca...
Allison McMillan - Making offsites meaningful
In a world where getting everyone into the same office five days a week is increasingly difficult, offsites are becoming an essential tool for alignin...
Paul Zhang - Town halls - influence at scale
Over the last decade as Avant has scaled to an 800+ person company, town halls have been a consistent pillar of their interval communications strategy...
Aviv Ben-Yosef - Accelerating Developer Growth
Hiring junior developers is always a concern. They’re easier to find and cost less than experienced engineers, but in addition to being less productiv...
Rukmini Reddy - Leading with Empathy During Change
As engineering leaders, we have a responsibility to our organizations and their bottom line. At the same time, we’re leading humans, not automatons, a...
Kit Colbert - From intern to CTO - lessons learned
Kit Colbert has taken an atypical route to becoming the CTO of a large, publicly traded corporation. He started at VMWare 20 years ago as an individua...
Jeremiah Stone - Choosing the right level of abstraction
Naturally, as CTOs, we often think about our job as to work with developers to ship software. But what does that mean in a world of frameworks, low co...
Josh Builder - Creating a compelling engineering brand
Over the last decade Josh Builder has led engineering at The Orchard (music), SoulCycle (fitness), Rent the Runway (fashion), and now Signify Health (...
Albert Wenger - Preparing for LLMs
In this week's interview with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, we discussed the changes that LLMs might bring - to our engine...
Raji Subramanian - The three stages of value creation
Raji Subramanian brings a wide range of experience to the role of CTO at Opendoor (Nasdaq OPEN). She honed her technical chops culminating in a Princi...
Yoav Grossman - Adding LLMs to your product - a case study
This week I interviewed Yoav Grossman, VP of Product & Engineering at Spinach.io about how they went about identifying potential use cases for LLMs wi...
Mike Boufford - Creating an AI Strategy
Just before our CTO summits in May I got to chat with Mike Boufford, CTO at Greenhouse about his experiences in getting up to speed with GenAI and LLM...
Gayatri Iyengar - The Art of Storytelling for Managing Stakeholder Relationships
Especially when building platform or infrastructure, sometimes it can be difficult for non-technical stakeholders to truly appreciate the value of the...
James Turnbull - Trimming your operating costs
In this wide ranging discussion, I speak with James Turnbull, SVP Engineering at Sotheby’s about his approach to managing his costs during a downturn....
Mona Soni - Why the grand hybrid experiment is going to fail!
While there has been a major push to return to the office (by many managers and a good number of ICs), when remote is done right, it can reduce costs,...
Matt Welsh - LLMs for engineering teams - a practical guide
Do you still have doubts about the wisdom of leveraging LLMs in software development? Maybe you’re not sure how much they can help or how best to get...
Mission Driven - Josh Nesbit: Founding Member, Widespread Care
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Josh Nesbit (Founding Member, Widespread Care) about what it looks like to be mission driven in h...
Mission Driven - Jim O’Leary: VP of Engineering, Signal
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Jim O’Leary (VP of Engineering, Signal) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work...
Mission Driven - Sam Quigley: CEO, Kicho Inc
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Sam Quigley (CEO, Kicho Inc) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.
Mission Driven - Max Roser: Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Max Roser (Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data) about wh...
Peter Bell - Refocusing the business and the podcast
We’re going to take a breath on the CTO Connection podcast for the next 3-4 weeks. When we first started the podcast, it was a “startup CTO podcast”....
Mission Driven - Laura Edelson: Postdoctoral Researcher / Co-Founder, NYU / Cyber Security for Democracy Project
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Laura Edelson (Postdoctoral Researcher at NYU, and Co-Founder of Cyber Security for Democracy Pro...
Jason Wodicka - Interviewing for culture
In part two of my interview with Jason Wodicka, Staff Software Engineer at Karat, we dig deeper into the process of creating predictive, fair, and eff...
Mission Driven - Fred Diego: Co-Founder & CTO, Streetwide
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Fred Diego (Co-Founder & CTO, Streetwide) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his wo...
Jason Wodicka - Building a structured interview process
Especially in the early days, too many companies still have ad-hoc interview processes or over index on things like resumes which aren’t super predict...
Mission Driven - Adam Kircher: Co-Founder, Sirum
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Adam Kircher (Co-Founder, Sirum) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.
Hilary Mason - Can they do the work?
I was lucky enough to attend a dinner during which Hilary Mason dropped more wisdom about hiring in one course than many people do in a 90-minute talk...
Mission Driven - Ariel Ekblaw: CEO, Aurelia
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Ariel Ekblaw (CEO, Aurelia) about what it looks like to be mission driven in her work.
Jesse White - Lessons learned from burnout
Jesse White grew with the company over at OpenNMS, from developer through to hands on CTO. He started with a team of just five, but as the company and...
Mission Driven - Nellwyn Thomas: CTO, Democratic National Committee
Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Nellwyn Thomas (CTO, Democratic National Committee) about what it looks like to be mission driven...
Raffi Krikorian - Introducing Mission Driven
In this very special episode, I get to introduce and interview Raffi Krikorian about his new podcast series - mission driven - that we’ll be hosting a...
Short Byte: Ron Lichty - The multiple levels of engineering management
These days it’s quite possible to be hacking on an idea in a dorm room one week, and just a few weeks later to be the CTO of a venture backed startup....
Short Byte: Matt Powell - Aligning annual planning with agile teams
There is always a tension in a mature business between the need for certainty when engaging with the rest of the company and the need for flexibility...
Short Byte: Matt Stephenson - Diversifying your engineering pipeline through internships
It can be hard to think about your long term engineering talent pipeline when you need to hit your quarterly recruiting and product delivery milestone...
Short Byte: Maher Saba - Remote Presence at Meta
In this week's interview, I get to chat with Maher Saba, VP of Remote Presence (and Head of Engineering) at Meta. Before Meta, Maher was a senior deve...
Short Byte: Francisco Larrain - Hiring multifaceted engineers
Francisco Larrain is the CTO and co-founder at Topsort - a company that provides auction-based ad infrastructure for multi-brand retailers and online...
Short Byte: Steven Gaffney - Essential elements of a consistently high achieving team
From Amazon to Lockheed Martin, Steven Gaffney has helped a wide range of companies to improve the effectiveness of their teams. In this week's episod...
Short Byte: Vidal Graupera - Challenges of being an engineering manager
Often, developers are just thrown into engineering management with little to no training. 'Congratulations, today you're the manager,' and they don't...
Short Byte: Griffin Caprio - Career progression as an engineering leader
Griffin had a fairly traditional early career path, moving from sys admin and software development into engineering leadership. More recently he’s bee...
Short Byte: Mark Porter - Exercising Judgement
In this episode, I get to chat with Mark Porter, the CTO of MongoDB. Mark was previously the CTO at Grab and the GM for RDS at AWS and, after joining...