Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes
Episodes
Brian Chambers: Scaling Chick-fil-A’s App, Kitchen, and Edge
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt sits down with Brian Chambers, Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A, to unpack what it actually takes to run moder...
Jesse Wilson: From SourceForge to OkHttp, and Why WebAssembly Beats the AI Hype
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with Jesse Wilson, one of the most influential engineers in the mobile world, to trace the o...
More Code, More Problems: Keeping Mobile Apps Fast, Small, and Reliable with Phil Rabin
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Rabin, Engineering Director at SoFi, joins Matt Klein to trace a career that starts in the wild west of early web dev - ActionScript, Flash, IE6 ...
Why Mobile Releases Still Feel Like Chaos, with Runway CEO Gabriel Savit
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Matt Klein sits down with Gabriel Savit, former iOS engineer and now co-founder & CEO of Runway, to unpack why mobile release pro...
Scaling Mobile at Uber: Ty Smith on Community, Toolchains, and the Next Dev Productivity Wave
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with Ty Smith, Principal Engineer at Uber and a longtime pillar of the Android community, to...
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 ...