Uber Engineering Manager on Scaling Systems, Career Trade-offs, and Why Clarity Beats Seniority
Sendil Nellaiyapen, Engineering Manager at Uber, has built systems that scale to millions of users. In this episode he shares what most engineers get wrong about both system design and the move into e...
11 Mar 44min
Lead Software Engineer: Why You Can Write the Code in a Day but Ship in a Month
Are you over-engineering for a future that might never come? In this episode, we explore why "future-proofing" often leads to wasted time and sunk costs, and how shifting your mindset from opinions to...
4 Mar 39min
How Senior Software Engineers Balance Speed and Quality (Scale-Up Lessons)
The difference between a junior and a senior engineer isn't coding speed, it's knowing when to say "no.""The best code you can write is the code you don't write." In this episode, I sit down with Ales...
25 Feb 47min
How to Think About Software Engineering (CTO's Perspective)
We are at a unique point in history where there is finally an alternative to human coding. If AI can write the code effectively, what is left for the software engineer?In this episode, Joris Conijn (A...
18 Feb 46min
How to Build the Best Platforms for Software Engineers
Is your internal developer platform actually improving velocity, or is it a bottleneck? We discuss why platform teams building "cool" abstractions is a red flag, and you should aim to create the best ...
11 Feb 43min
Career Advice I'd Give Every Software Engineer Right Now
Engineering hasn't become easier, writing code has just become faster. Time to stop fighting symptoms and start thinking in systems. In this Q&A, I break down the career advice I'd give to any enginee...
4 Feb 1h 1min
The Skills That Matter When AI Writes Your Code
The software engineering landscape is shifting rapidly. Coding is becoming "cheap" because of tools like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor etc. Interviews are evolving to focus on system design over ...
28 Jan 41min
Google & AWS Veteran: How To Become a Great Architect
"Architects shouldn't try to be the smartest people in the room, they should make everybody else smarter."In this episode, Gregor Hohpe (ex-Google & AWS, author of "The Software Architect Elevator") b...
21 Jan 1h 4min
