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Level-up Engineering

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Level-up Engineering reveals actionable management secrets from some of the most successful engineering leaders (VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, CTO). This podcast brings you key...

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Building a new engineering team by turning another one around - Tips from Tinder

Transforming teams doesn’t go without its challenges. Let’s look at Tinder’s example. In this episode, Chris O'Brien , Director of Engineeri...

54:52Oct 16, 2024

Scaling Startups: Behind the Scenes of Fleetio’s Growth

Scaling engineering teams can happen in a lot of different ways. Let’s take a look at a real-life example, how Fleetio scaled their product...

44:23Sep 18, 2024

Beyond the Bias: The Truth About Remote Work vs. Returning to the Office

Liam Martin, Co-Founder of Time Doctor, debunks myths around remote work and shares valuable tips on managing remote engineering teams so th...

47:56May 15, 2024

Core Engineering Principles for Customer-Centric Design

Ian Tien, CEO and Co-Founder of Mattermost, talks about these core principles and their impact on his company. He highlights the importance...

51:15Apr 17, 2024

We’ve Adopted Modern Practices, Why isn’t Product Development Great yet? - Challenges in Product Development

Gil Broza, Value Delivery & Agile Leadership Expert, gives actionable advice for leaders who want truly great product development. He emphas...

01:09:25Mar 13, 2024

Behind the scenes of a successful mentoring program - Mentoring tips for tech leaders

Magda Miu, Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe, discusses the importance of mentoring and shares her experiences as both a mentor and mentee...

57:51Feb 7, 2024

Leave Toxic Work Environments in 2023: Spotting and Fixing Unhealthy Work Cultures

Dave Yeager, Director of Data Infrastructure at Recurve, shares aspects of healthy organizations, lists some signs of unhealthy ones and giv...

01:06:28Jan 24, 2024

Implementing Agile in Big Corporations - Proven Tips from Salesforce

Mayakrishnan Chakkarapani, Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce, shares interesting insights on how his organization uses A...

58:09Jan 10, 2024

Open Source Stories: How OSS Developers and Communities Shape the Future of Software Engineering

Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity, discusses various important aspects of open source software development. He talks about the decisions every...

01:09:04Dec 13, 2023

How to be a Great Leader and Manager: Strategies to Improve your Team - and their Results

Peter Anderton, Founder of Internal Alignment, shares actionable tips to become a better leader by creating alignment, fighting your own ego...

01:07:20Nov 29, 2023

From IC to CEO: Software Engineer Career Development

Level-up your software engineer career development through other professionals’ stories: meet Max Rudman, CEO of Prodly, who went from IC to...

45:43Nov 15, 2023

AI Deployment 101: The Considerations of Safely Deploying AI in the Enterprise

Interview with Varun Mohan, CEO & Co-Founder of Exafunction and Codeium. He gives valuable insights on the considerations of AI deployment i...

36:36Nov 1, 2023

Communicating Your Engineering Team’s Impact at Work - Tips for Leaders

Interview with Dan Lines, CPO and Co-Founder of LinearB. He talks about the importance of representing engineering teams and gives valuable...

33:14Oct 18, 2023

Open source advocacy: The benefits of open source software

Interview with Joey Wilhelm, Security Engineer at Pinwheel. He talks about the benefits of open source software and gives great advice for c...

39:54Oct 11, 2023

Books for software engineers: Nature-inspired ways to scale software delivery

Interview with Yaron Perlman, author of the book DevStreams: Scaling Software Delivery. Naturally. He talks about the main ideas of DevStrea...

55:32Sep 27, 2023

Managing Workplace Stress via Breathing Techniques

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

51:44Apr 12, 2023

Building and Running Teams That Prioritize Innovation

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

38:59Mar 8, 2023

The Ultimate Guide to Building Successful Analytics Engineering Teams

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

27:10Feb 15, 2023

How to Prevent Quiet Quitting - Setting Healthy Boundaries at Work

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

49:16Feb 1, 2023

How to Deal With Information Overload - A Leader’s Guide to Managing Communications

Interview with Hadi Hariri, VP of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains. He talks about the challenge of dealing with the constant influx of infor...

45:50Jan 11, 2023