Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes
Episodes
Bazel Keith and the Quest for Better Builds
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with Keith Smiley, aka “Bazel Keith,” to talk all things Bazel and iOS tooling. Keith sh...
In Praise of Bugs: P-Y Ricau on the Joy of Breaking Things
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, host Matt Klein talks with P-Y Ricau, Principal Engineer at Block (formerly Square) and a legend in the Android c...
From Droid Days to DraftKings: Hemant Garg on Velocity with Guardrails
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From shipping the first Droid phone to running multi-app, multi-state platforms, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings, unpacks how to ship mon...
From Razr to Smart Carts: Building the Future of Payments & Retail Tech
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Google’s face ID payments to Instacart’s Caper carts, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Michal Palczewski, shares the war stories, logs, and gr...
From Hacking Modems to Rewriting Lyft: Martin’s Journey to bitdrift
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with bitdrift co-founder Martin to trace his path from hacking assembly code as a teen ...