The DevTeam Project - Engineering Leadership Podcast

Kevin Owocki is an open source software developer who founded Gitcoin, a platform that uses blockchain technology and cryptocurrency to pay developers who work on open source projects. During a walk with Codility’s Kuba in San Francisco, he shared how the technologies that Gitcoin uses can be leveraged to pay bounties, gifts, or fees to developers working in hybrid and distributed teams.

Adam Bermingham is an Engineering Manager responsible for the AI Product Understanding Platform at the online clothing and goods retailer Zalando. He began his career as a software developer but shifted gears into research early on. After receiving a Ph.D. in search and natural language processing, Adam worked as a data scientist for a large media company. When Zalando opened a tech center in Dublin, he decided it was an excellent chance for him to help grow a company and also grow his career by moving into leadership.

Adam talks about his recommendations on how to lead projects, maintain culture, and be a better leader within a large engineering team.

Santiago Palladino is a team leader at OpenZeppelin, a company based in Buenos Aires that creates development tools for blockchain and also audits blockchain applications for security. He shared with us his methods for overcoming the unique challenges of leading teams working with a distributed Blockchain development team.

Matias di Tada, VP of Product Engineering, shares his insider knowledge about developing great leaders for development teams.

We met with Darren Chinen, Senior Director of Engineering at Malwarebytes, to talk about how he empowers engineers with ownership and how to introduce new tech into an already working product

Kay Jones spent 11 years at Rackspace, where she led SMB, enterprise support, and engineering teams. Kay was responsible for the storage engineering business unit performance, product releases, and support practices, before taking a role in the engineering group to guide their learning & development strategies. We talked about connecting business goals to motivation for engineers, learning by asking questions and bringing empathy to the team.

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We talk about types of developers, fast and slow feedback loops and why does it matter for your team. Check out devteamproject.com for highlights from this conversation.

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Jacek Migdal is the Site Engineering Manager leading Sumo Logic's Warsaw office, and an experienced engineering leader. I sat down with him to get his thoughts on what engineering is like today vs. a few years back, how to hire, and why culture is critical to mission success.

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Wojtek is a coder, trainer, and seriously experienced Software Engineer. In his experience, the healing process for a struggling dev team begins on the inside. Though it's hard - he enjoys working with these sorts of teams the most. We've met to talk about symptoms of problems within teams, struggling leaders and how to deal with those kind of situations.

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