The Engineering Leadership Podcast

Technology Podcasts

We share the most critical perspectives, habits & examples of great software engineering leaders to help evolve leadership in the tech industry. Join our community of software engineering leaders @ www.sfelc.com!

Episodes

Building reliable and proactive agentic systems at scale: how Shopify’s reflexive AI culture was instrumental in their development of Sidekick w/ Andrew McNamara #258

How the R&D Org at Twilio Drives Business Strategy and Transformation w/ Inbal Shani #257

Scaling TensorFlow, Navigating Startup Pivots, ML Edge Infrastructure and AI Inference Strategy w/ Rajat Monga #256

How Enterprises Actually Win with AI: Operationalizing Responsible AI, Engineering Guardrails, Trust Controls, and Systems Thinking at Scale w/ Murali Swaminathan #255

Shifting Eng Leaders to Think Like GMs, Building an AI-Driven Visionary Roadmap & Braze’s Product Health Initiative w/ Jon Hyman #254

Leading effectively across company archetypes: product, business and design-led leadership w/ Sebastiano Armeli #253

Changes in engineering management craft, career growth and all hands demos for inspiration and context w/ Lindsey Simon #252

Career growth for engineering leaders in the AI era: Building your thesis, the “running framework” & developing technical depth w/ Chris Chiu #251

How OpenAI’s engineering org is reshaping teams, roles and workflows w/ Sulman Choudhry #250

The innovation engine behind Samsara driving real-world impact: compounding feedback loops, data flywheels and embedding engineers in customer problems w/ Kiren Sekar #249

Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler #248

Cultivating product thinking, cross-functional leadership & the future of AI agent infrastructure w/ Jaikumar Ganesh #247

Scaling from point solutions to a unified, AI-powered product ecosystem w/ Vineeta Puranik #246

From localized to systematic speed: How Spotify deploys AI in prototyping, strategy & maintenance w/ Tyson Singer #245

Inside ELC’s 1st Hackathon: Deconstructing the operational playbook, implementation lessons & future of the program w/ James Tyack #244

What is leadership in the AI Era? w/ Bill Coughran & Bret Reckard #243

From Research Lab to Record-Breaking Product: How OpenAI Engineered for Unprecedented Scale w/ Sulman Choudhry, Samir Ahmed & Lawrence Bruhmeller #242

The AI Distribution Shift, Navigating PMF Collapse & Building AI-Native EPD Systems w/ Brian Balfour #242

How Atlassian built Rovo in 6 months: systematizing developer joy, autonomy/ownership, productivity champions & reducing ship time w/ Rajeev Rajan #240

From developer to builder/system designer, managing AI agents like team members & monday.com’s evolving R&D playbook w/ Daniel Lereya #239