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The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.
Rafe Colburn, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Depop joins the show to talk about his journey from a computer-loving kid to a seasoned engineering leader. We talked about the biggest lessons he learned from his time at Etsy, management by instinct, the dynamics between product and engineering teams, and his biggest priorities right now at Depop.
Rafe's recommendation: beliapp.com
The James Stanier blog post we talked about: https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/the-disappointment-frontier
Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, joins the show to talk about his unique leadership journey, going from solving real manufacturing problems, to building software for other developers.
00:00 Rob's unconventional path to CTO
13:30 The importance of being scrappy
22:40 The Future of CircleCI
23:33 From analysis to execution: The shift in leadership roles
26:00 Running an Engineering Organization: Learning, reading, and seeking feedback
31:30 Improving developer experience iteratively
Rob's recommended: 'Greatness' by David Marquet
Annie Vella, a distinguished engineer at Westpac New Zealand, joins the podcast to talk about her incredibly varied career journey, repeatedly ending up working alongside her husband, and riding the manager to individual contributor pendulum.
08:00 Working in Different Domains and Embracing Change
20:00 Transitioning into Management Roles
25:00 The Value of Embracing Change and New Opportunities
35:30 Transitioning to Engineering Manager Roles
46:00 The Impact of AI Tools on Software Engineers
In this episode, Scott Carey sat down with Nick Means, VP of Engineering at MedScout, ahead of his talk at LeadDev London 2024 about the history of the Barbican estate.
Nick's recommendation: Perplexity AI
Katerina Iliakopoulou, a senior machine learning engineer at Meta, joins the show to talk about leaving her dream job at the New York Times, the importance of deep domain knowledge as an engineer, and what’s around the corner in machine learning.
02:10 Why domain knowledge is vital for engineers
04:45 Leaving the New York Times for Meta
08:45 Choosing the IC track and what makes a great manager
14:44 The art of prioritization and building impactful solutions
18:00 PriorityZero: Scaling ML models for Facebook Reels
34:24 The future of recommendation systems
Katerina's recommendation: Chip War by Chris Miller
Welcome to PriorityZero, an engineering leadership podcast from LeadDev. I'm your host, Scott Carey, the editor in chief at LeadDev. I've been covering the software business for the best part of a decade, and I love to hear how engineering leaders are solving big people and technical problems.
Subscribe to this podcast to hear how the best software engineering leaders in the business made their start in the industry, how they think about leadership, and their biggest priority right now.
In this first season you will hear from:
The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.