Software Engineering Unlocked

By Michaela Greiler

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What's Software Engineering Unlocked about?

In this show, I open you the doors to companies and thought leaders around the world. With my guest, I discuss software engineering best practices and pitfalls, and how they strive to build software people love.

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11.23.2021

In this episode, I talk to Florin Pop. Florin is a web developer that started building websites in 2013 and worked many years as a successful freelancer. I know Florin from his super-popular YouTube channel and his funny and inspiring ...

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11.23.2021 Content creation as a career path for developers In this episode, I talk to Florin Pop. Florin is a web developer that started building websites in 2013 and worked many years as a successful freelancer. I know Florin from his super-popular YouTube channel and his funny and inspiring ...
09.28.2021 Driving innovation and engineering practices with Dr. Holly Cummins In this episode, I talk to Dr. Holly Cummins. Holly was the development practice lead for IBM Garage for Cloud, before becoming an innovation leader in IBM’s corporate strategy team. She drives innovation for companies in various industries, such as ...
09.14.2021 Better collaboration & performance through diversity and inclusion In this episode, I talk to Trier Bryant and Kim Scott who co-founded the company Just Work which helps organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Trier Bryant is a strategic executive leader with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military ...
08.31.2021 Falling in love with the JavaScript community In this episode, I talk to Tracy Lee. Tracy is the CEO and co-founder of This Dot Labs, a widely successful dev shop. She is also a speaker, conference organizer, and blogger. We talk about: - how she dared to ...
08.17.2021 Bootstrapping Netlify to a multi-million-dollar company In this episode, I talk to Matt Biilmann. Matt Matt is the CEO and co-founder of Netlify – the modern platform for high-performance websites and apps. Netlify has around 150 employees and an estimate of over 20 million dollars of ...
08.03.2021 Responsibilities of a Chief Data Officer In this episode, I talk to Patrick Wagstrom. Patrick is the Chief Data Officer at Brightcove. Before that Patrick was the director of emerging technology at Verizon, meaning that he leveraged AI/ML, augmented reality, blockchain, IoT, quantum computing, and even ...
07.20.2021 Using Entrepreneurship 101 to Build a New Profitable Business In this episode, I talk to Karls Hughes. Karl is a software engineer who turned into an entrepreneur in the midst of the pandemic last year. His start-up draft.dev creates content that reaches software engineers - which means he combined ...
05.19.2021 The Secret To High Quality Code with Dr. Michaela Greiler and Liran Haimovitch In this episode, I talk to Liran Haimovitch, CTO of Rookout - an effortless debugging tool, about how to get to high-quality code. We talk about: - what are the challenges of moving fast - what does productivity mean - ...
05.04.2021 Getting ready for a billion-dollar business In this episode, I talk to Max Stoiber. Max is a JavaScript Engineer that is in love with React and Node, and also a fellow Austrian. He has a track record in the open-source world, worked for Gatsby, and Github, ...
04.13.2021 From designer to web developer In this episode, I talk to Annie Liew, who works as a web developer at a startup called Pastel. She transitioned from Design to Engineering, and I want to know how she experienced this. We talk about: - about her ...
03.30.2021 Legacy code and what to do with it - with Michael Feathers In this episode, I talk to Michael Feathers. Michael is the author of the super-popular book “working effectively with legacy code”. He is also the founder and director of R7K Research and Conveyance, a company that helps engineering teams with ...
03.16.2021 Underrepresented, Underpaid & Undervalued – Having to change jobs to advance your career In this episode, I talk to Jenn Creighton. Jenn is a Senior Staff Engineer at Apollo. Jenn specialized in frontend-end development is currently working on the open-source work for Apollo GraphQL. She also is a frequent conference speaker, an authoritative ...
02.16.2021 From bootcamp straight into a full-time dev role In this episode, I talk to Natalie Davis. Natalie is a recent Bootcamp graduate that managed to get hired quickly after graduating. She is vividly sharing her knowledge on Twitter and started to make real waves in the dev community ...
02.02.2021 How Programmers Think and Learn with Prof. Felienne Hermans In this episode, I talk to Felienne Hermans, who is an associate professor at the University of Leiden and researches how developers think and learn. We talk about: - why it is so hard to read and understand code, - ...
01.19.2021 Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris In this episode, I talk with Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security. Luta Security specializes in helping businesses and governments work with hackers and security researchers to better defend themselves from digital attacks. Katie is also an expert ...
12.22.2020 From intern to CEO with agile testing expert Alex Schladebeck In this episode, I talk to Alex Schladebeck, a testing expert, and a powerful voice in the tech community. Alex is the CEO of Bredex, a dev shop that offers tailor-made IT solutions but also specializes in quality assurance and ...
12.08.2020 Serverless is your competitive advantage In this episode, I talk to Nader Dabit. Nader is a web and mobile developer, who specializes in building cross-platform and cloud-enabled applications. Right now, he works at Amazon Web Services, where he develops features in the client team and ...
11.24.2020 Combatting tech debt in war rooms In this episode, I talk to Tomasz Łakomy, a senior frontend engineer at OLX Group. Tomasz is fascinated about teaching everything he knows and has over 170 video tutorials. We talk about: - how they develop, test, and reviews software ...
11.10.2020 Getting into FAANG companies without a CS degree In this episode, I talk to Ben Lesh. Ben is a Senior Software engineer at Citadel Securities. Before that, Ben worked amongst other companies, at Google and Netflix. Ben is also the Project Lead for RxJS. RxJS is a library ...
10.27.2020 No mocks allowed - A discussion with Kent C. Dodds In this episode, I talk to Kent C. Dodds, a software engineer, and teacher. Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, Kent has been working for PayPal. He is a major open source contributor and also the creator and maintainer of the ...
10.13.2020 How design systems help create an inclusive user experience at Github In this episode, I talk to Diana Mounter, the Director of Design Infrastructure at GitHub. Diana traveled the world and lived in many different countries – even continents. She started as a print designer and spent some time in government ...
09.29.2020 How I got a job at Spotify during a pandemic – Emma Bostian In this episode, I talk to Emma Bostian, who recently started as a software engineer at Spotify. And Emma is the kind of person, that not only applies and interviews for jobs, but at the same time writes a complete ...
09.15.2020 Software success through community building In this episode, I talk to Chris Biscardi, an independent software consultant about how he became successful through open source and community building. We talk about - how he niched down to only work with open source companies - how ...
09.01.2020 Special Episode 25: From art school to Microsoft Research In this episode, I talk to myself. Yeah, to celebrate the one year anniversary of the podcast, I tell you about my own journey into tech, and my experiences working at Microsoft and Microsoft Research. I share with you the ...
08.18.2020 Why you should double down on intergration testing with Kent C. Dodds In this episode, I talk to Kent C. Dodds, a software engineer, and teacher. Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, Kent has been working for PayPal. He is a major open source contributor and also the creator and maintainer of the ...
08.04.2020 Wearing many hats - From Sysadmin to Developer to Solution Architect at Red Hat In this episode, I talk to Angela Andrews, a solution architect at Red Hat. Angela is a curious learner who has worn many hats over the last +20 years in the tech industry. We talk about: - her experiences as ...
07.15.2020 Becoming a machine learning engineer at Twitter In this episode, I talk to Jigyasa Grover, a machine learning engineer at Twitter. Jigyasa is my first data engineer, and so it's great to learn from her about what her day to day work entails. But in addition, she ...
06.23.2020 Inside Doist - The Bootstrapped Market Leader In this episode, I talk to Amir Salihefendić, CEO and Founder of Doist, the company behind the widely successful productivity app ToDoist. Amir shares with me his entrepreneurial journey and talks with me about the company and engineering values lived ...
06.09.2020 Fundamentally changing how we develop software In this episode, I talk to Tudor Gîrba, CEO and co-founder of Feenk, a software consultancy. Over the last 10 years, Tudor researched new ways to develop software – called moldable development. In this interview, I did deep to understand ...
05.26.2020 Checking the Disability Box at Apple Changed My Life This episode is part 2 of my interview with Cher. In this part, we deep-dive into her interview experience at Apple and how she worked her way up to a Staff engineering position. We talk about: - the hiring process ...
05.12.2020 From Hardship to a Staff Engineering Position at Apple In this special episode, Cher shares her inspirational story about she overcame hardship and poverty, and worked her way up to now be a staff engineer at Apple. Cher has incredible strength in her, and bravely shares her struggles dealing ...
04.28.2020 Why we hate to read code with Trisha Gee In this episode, I talk to Trisha Gee, who is the Lead of the Java Developer Advocacy Team at JetBrain. She is an expert for Java high-performance systems, and developed software for a variety of industries, such as finance or ...
04.14.2020 Running a successful dev shop with Martin Gratzer In this episode, I talk to Martin Gratzer, CEO, and founder of Topmind. Topmind is a successful boutique dev shop in the heart of Carinthia in Austria. Martin shares with me, how he managed to build a striving development agency ...
03.31.2020 How to Succeed In Building Developer Tooling with Peter Pezaris In this episode, I talk to Peter Pezaris. Peter is the CEO and co-founder of a start-up called CodeStream. What's interesting about Peter's story is that CodeStream isn't his first startup. CodeStream is one of the many companies Peter built. ...
03.17.2020 What developers should know about security with Troy Hunt In this episode, I talk to Troy Hunt, a leading security expert. Troy is a successful Pluralsight author and runs security workshops all around the world. He also is person behind the popular web haveIbeenPwned, which allows everybody to check ...
03.03.2020 Bad Tests Are Worse Than Product Issues with Dan Abramov In this episode, I talk to Dan Abramov. Dan is a developer at Facebook, working on the popular JavaScript framework React. Dan is also one of the most well-known person in the whole front-end developer scene and recently started working ...
02.18.2020 Starting a profitable business in six weeks with Courtland Allen In this episode, I talk to Courtland Allen, the founder, and chief-indie hacker of the Indie Hacker community. After many years of trial and error, Courtland launched the widely successful indie hacker community and the indie hacker podcast. We talk ...
02.04.2020 Making Gatsby easy to understand with Laurie Barth In this episode, I talk to Laurie Barth, a staff software engineer at Gatsby. Laurie is also a vivid conference speaker, tech blogger, and egghead instructor. We talk about: - how she got this awesome position at Gatsby - her ...
01.21.2020 Done playing Microsoft's corporate game In this episode, I talk to Suz Hinton, about her transition from Microsoft to Stripe, mentoring and advancing one’s career and live coding. We talk about: - her role and responsibilities at Stripe, - how to understand what customers and ...
01.07.2020 From Consultancy to Product Company with Charlie Gerard In this episode, I talk to Charlie Gerard who recently switched from the software consultance ThoughtWorks to the product company Atlassian. She now works on Jira, the planning and bug tracking software that comprises a codebase of several million lines ...
12.03.2019 Parent Driven Development at Github with Allison McMillan In this episode, Allison McMillan, a software engineering manager at Github joins me to talk about - how she broke into tech from a non-traditional background, - how she overcame obstacles and problems as a new mother in tech and ...
11.19.2019 Troubleshooting Systems through Observability with Charity Majors In this episode, I talk to Charity Majors, founder, and CTO of honeycomb. Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating your production systems. It represents the new generation of monitoring systems that can handle highly distributed and complex systems. ...
11.04.2019 Making Git faster with Derrick Stolee In this episode, I talk to Derrick Stolee, a principal software engineer at Microsoft who makes sure the Git version control system is lightning fast. We talk about: - his career switch from being a professor to become a software ...
10.21.2019 Developer Number One with Alper Kemal Koç In this episode, I talk to Alper Kemal Koç, who was the first engineer building a low code platform called Kuika, that helps users develop mobile applications. Alper shares with me how he build this startup from idea to serving ...
10.08.2019 Getting a remote job at Automattic with Leif Singer In this episode, I talk to Leif Singer, an engineer at the fully remote company Automattic. Automattic is the company behind WordPress, a famous and powerful content management system with an estimated 75 Million user base. We talk about: - ...
09.24.2019 Building a developer community with Sandeep Panda In this episode, I talk to Sandeep Panda, CEO and Founder of Hashnoce, a friendly and inclusive developer community. Sandeep shares with me his entrepreneurial journey and all the lessons he learned along his way. We talk about: - building ...
09.10.2019 Getting a remote position at Microsoft with Scott Hanselman In this episode, I talk to Scott Hanselman, a partner product manager at Microsoft. Since years, Scott is one of the most successful tech bloggers, he has three podcasts and actively works on making tech a more diverse place. We ...
08.28.2019 Finding fulfillment through humor in tech with Cassidy Williams In this episode, I talk with Cassidy Williams, a senior software engineer that works for the fully-remote company CodePen. CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. We talk about: - working remote for a small startup ...
08.19.2019 Software Engineering Unlocked Podcast Teaser Hello and welcome to the Software Engineering Unlocked Podcast. The show in which I talk to experienced developers from different companies about how they develop maintainable, scalable and reliable software people love.