Refactoring Podcast

Today's guest is Aditya Agarwal.

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Today's guest is Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb and one of my

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Today's guest is Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, engineering leadership coach, and speaker.

At DX, she works with hundreds of companies on improving their developer experience and engineering productivity.

Here is what we talked about:

(02:20) Introduction

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Today's guest is Daniel Vassallo, the creator of the Small Bets community, which counts more than 5 ,000 members and includes engineers, entrepreneurs, and creators of all kinds.

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Today's guest is Thiago Ghisi, Director of Engineering at Nubank.

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Andrew Weaver is co-founder and CEO of CTO Academy, an educational product that works with thousands of CTO today. Andrew has over 25+ years of executive-level experience with companies of various size, including enterprises, SME and early-stage companies across multiple sectors.

(03:02) What is CTO Academy and how it works

(07:53) What makes a good CTO

(14:01) The CTO mindset

(20:06) Being a CTO in a remote environment

(23:20) Unleashing the "quiet genius"

(28:11) How AI is changing tech

(36:58) Education & micro-learning

(45:11) Q&A

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Wes Kao is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes an amazing newsletter for high-performers in tech.

She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from First Round and Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin.

Here is what we talked about:

(00:00) Introduction

(03:08) Managing up

(10:13) Bridging the gap between managers and reports

(13:33) The “Bad Things / Good Things” framework

(19:14) Good communication in the remote era

(24:17) The transition to remote work at Maven

(29:28) Sync vs async communication

(33:41) Asynchronous videos

(38:39) Transitioning to a Manager

(46:57) Psychological safety

(53:03) Over-communicating is communicating

(58:59) Wes’ approach to reading

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Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering at Personio, and ex VP of Engineering and Operations at Twitter.

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Kathryn Koehler is the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix.

Her teams focus on the development environment and associated experiences, which enable and empower developers at Netflix to bootstrap, code, build, test, debug, and maintain software more effectively and efficiently.

Productivity is an ever-controversial topic in engineering, and with Kathryn we dived right into it! Here is what we talked about:

(00:00) Introduction

(03:54) Netflix Culture

(10:37) Developer Productivity

(22:54) Platform Teams

(28:57) Meetings, Processes & Planning

(41:26) Productivity Metrics

(52:44) Q&A: AI, metrics, remote

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Farhan Thawar is VP of Engineering at Shopify, angel investor, and entrepreneur.

Shopify is a public company with thousands of employees, and one of the very few companies of its scale to be remote-first. While other big tech quietly issued RTOs, Shopify doubled down on processes and culture that allowed it to stay remote, or, in their own words: digital-first.

So, today, Shopify has ports instead of offices, does VR meetings, has a unique collaboration culture, and completely embraced AI for productivity. Here is everything we covered in the chat:

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