Engineering Enablement by DX
Episodes
Running data-driven evaluations of AI engineering tools
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI engineering tools are evolving fast. New coding assistants, debugging agents, and automation platforms emerge every month. Engineering leaders want...
DORA’s 2025 research on the impact of AI
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nathen Harvey leads research at DORA, focused on how teams measure and improve software delivery. In today’s episode of Engineering Enablement, Nath...
How Monzo runs data-driven AI experimentation
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Engineering Enablement, host Laura Tacho talks with Fabien Deshayes, who leads multiple platform engineering teams at Monzo Bank. F...
Planning your 2026 AI tooling budget: guidance for engineering leaders
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Engineering Enablement, Laura Tacho and Abi Noda discuss how engineering leaders can plan their 2026 AI budgets effectively amid ra...
The evolving role of DevProd teams in the AI era
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CEO Abi Noda is joined by DX CTO Laura Tacho to discuss the evolving role of Platform and DevProd teams in the AI era. Together, they unpack how AI is...
Lessons from Twilio’s multi-year platform consolidation
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Laura Tacho speaks with Jesse Adametz, Senior Engineering Leader on the Developer Platform at Twilio. Jesse is leading Twilio’...
Driving enterprise-wide AI tool adoption
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Engineering Enablement, host Laura Tacho talks with Bruno Passos, Product Lead for Developer Experience at Booking.com, about how t...
Measuring AI code assistants and agents with the AI Measurement Framework
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Engineering Enablement, DX CTO Laura Tacho and CEO Abi Noda break down how to measure developer productivity in the age of AI using...
How to cut through the hype and measure AI’s real impact (Live from LeadDev London)
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of the Engineering Enablement podcast, recorded live at LeadDev London, DX CTO Laura Tacho explores the growing gap between AI...
Unpacking METR’s findings: Does AI slow developers down?
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Engineering Enablement podcast, host Abi Noda is joined by Quentin Anthony, Head of Model Training at Zyphra and a contributor ...
CarGurus’ journey building a developer portal and increasing AI adoption
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi Noda talks with Frank Fodera, Director of Engineering for Developer Experience at CarGurus. Frank shares the story behind CarGuru...
Snowflake’s playbook for operational excellence
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi Noda speaks with Gilad Turbahn, Head of Developer Productivity, and Amy Yuan, Director of Engineering at Snowflake, about how the...
The biggest obstacles preventing GenAI adoption — and how to overcome them
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi Noda speaks with DX CTO Laura Tacho about the real obstacles holding back AI adoption in engineering teams. They discuss why tech...
DORA’s latest research on AI impact
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi Noda speaks with Derek DeBellis, lead researcher at Google’s DORA team, about their latest report on generative AI’s impact o...
Setting targets for developer productivity metrics
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi Noda is joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, engineering leadership coach, and creator of the Core 4 framework. They explore how eng...
The AI adoption playbook: Lessons from Microsoft's internal strategy
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Houck from Microsoft returns to discuss effective strategies for driving AI adoption among software development teams. Brian shares his insights...
Gene Kim on developer experience and AI engineering
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re joined by author and researcher Gene Kim for a wide-ranging conversation on the evolution of DevOps, developer experience, an...
Getting Airbnb’s Platform team to drive more impact: Reorganizing, defining strategy, and metrics
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Airbnb Developer Productivity leader Anna Sulkina shares the story of how her team transformed itself and became more impactful withi...
You have developer productivity metrics. Now what?
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many teams struggle to use developer productivity data effectively because they don’t know how to use it to decide what to do next. We know that dat...
Leveraging sentiment data, driving org-wide action, and executive engagement
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, David Betts, leader of Twilio’s developer platform team, shares how Twilio leverages developer sentiment data to drive platform eng...
Rethinking developer experience at T-Mobile: DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Chandler is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff for Developer Productivity at T-Mobile. Chris has led several major initiatives to improve de...
DX Core 4: 2024 benchmarks
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi and Laura dive into the 2024 DX Core 4 benchmarks, sharing insights across data from 500+ companies. They discuss what these benc...
DX Core 4: Framework overview, key design principles, and practical applications
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi and Laura introduce the DX Core 4, a new framework designed to simplify how organizations measure developer productivity. They di...
SPACE framework, PRs per engineer, AI research
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Brian Houck, Applied Scientist, Developer Productivity at Microsoft, covers SPACE, DORA, and some specific metrics the developer prod...
CTO buy-in, measuring sentiment, and customer focus
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript. In this episode, Snowflake’s Gilad Turbahn, Head of Developer Productivity, and Amy Yuan, Director of Eng...
Platform team challenges, realigning on DevEx, and change management
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript. In this episode, Emanuel Mueller Ramos, Head of Developer Experience at Skyscanner, discusses the evolution...
Exploring Developer Productivity with AI: Insights from Airbnb, GitHub, and Jumio
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript. In this week's episode, Abi is joined by industry leaders Idan Gazit from GitHub, Anna Sulkina from Airbnb,...
How SiriusXM revamped their platform and developer experience | Jared Wolinsky
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript. In this week's episode, Abi welcomes Jared Wolinsky, Vice President of Platform Engineering at SiriusXM, to...
Developer Experience at American Express | Michelle Swartz (American Express)
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript'. In this episode, Michelle Swartz, Vice president of Developer Enablement American Express, shares insights...
DORA, SPACE, and DevEx: Choosing the right framework | Laura Tacho + Abi Noda
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript'. This week’s episode is a recording from a recent event hosted by Abi Noda (CEO of DX) and Laura Tacho (C...
The science behind DORA | Derek DeBellis (Google)
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript. In this week's episode, we welcome Derek DeBellis, lead researcher on Google's DORA team, for a deep dive i...
How Slack fully automates deploys and anomaly detection with Z-scores | Sean Mcllroy (Slack)
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript. This week we’re joined by Sean Mcllroy from Slack’s Release Engineering team to learn about how they’...
What’s up with internal developer portals? | Chris Westerhold (Thoughtworks)
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to view the episode transcript. This week’s episode is the recording of a live conversation between Abi and Chris Westerhold (Thoughtwork...
10 years of driving developer productivity at Yelp | Kent Wills (Yelp)
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to listen to the episode transcript. On this week's episode, Abi interviews Kent Wills, Director of Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp. He...
How “instructional engineers” improve developer onboarding at Splunk | Gail Carmichael (Splunk)
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Gail Carmichael, Principal Instructional Engineer at Splunk. At Splunk, Gail’s team is responsible for improving develop...
Bootstrapping a developer portal | Adam Rogal (DoorDash)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we’re joined by Adam Rogal, who leads Developer Productivity and Platform at DoorDash. Adam describes DoorDash’s journey with thei...
A deep-dive on the Thoughtworks Tech Radar | Rebecca Parsons, Camilla Crispim, Erik Dörnenburg (Thoughtworks)
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi has a fascinating conversation with Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks's CTO, Camilla Crispim, and Erik Dörnenburg on the ThoughtWork...
Measuring and rolling out AI coding assistants | Eirini Kalliamvakou (GitHub)
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Eirini Kalliamvakou, a staff researcher at GitHub focused on AI and developer experience. Eirini sits at the forefront of researc...
Measuring developer productivity at Airbnb | Christopher Sanson (Airbnb)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Sanson is a product manager at Airbnb who is dedicated to enhancing developer productivity and tooling. Today, we learn more about Airbnb'...
Leading a DevEx team through transformation | Ana Petkovska (Nexthink)
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi speaks with Ana Petkovska, who is currently leading the developer experience team at Nexthink. Ana takes us through her journey o...
How LinkedIn defines and tracks key developer productivity metrics | Grant Jenks (LinkedIn)
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi chats with Grant Jenks, Senior Staff SWE, Engineering Insights @ LinkedIn. They dive into LinkedIn's developer insights platform,...
Building an internal developer platform at CVS Health | Jim Beyers (CVS Health)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is with Jim Beyers, VP of Engineering Enablement at CVS Health. Jim joined CVS a year ago to lead an effort to build an internal d...
The Platform PM role at Spotify | Nils Loodin (Spotify)
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we spoke with Nils Loodin, Platform Product Manager at Spotify. Nils describes how his role in platform product management works, including ...
Evolving platform and enablement at Thomson Reuters | Justin Wright, Matthew Dimich (Thomson Reuters)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Justin Wright and Matthew Dimich, who lead Platform Engineering and Engineering Enablement at Thomson Reuters. Justin and ...
Key findings from the 2023 State of Devops Report | Nathen Harvey (DORA at Google)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode dives into the DORA research program and this year’s State of DevOps Report. Nathen Harvey, who leads DORA at Google, shares t...
Atlassian’s journey with developer experience | Preeti Kota (Atlassian)
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Preeti Kota, the Head of Engineering for Compass at Atlassian. Preeti walks us through Atlassian’s journey with develope...
Shopify’s developer happiness survey | Mark Côté (Shopify)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Mark Côté, who leads the Developer Infrastructure organization at Shopify, to learn about their developer survey program...
Leading platform engineering at Trivago | Thomas Khalil (Trivago)
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Khalil, Head of Platform and SRE at Trivago, describes how the teams reporting into him are structured, the tactics they’re using to increase...
Enabling teams to drive their own productivity improvements | Jenny McClain (Toast)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Jenny McClain, who leads R&D Team Enablement at Toast. Jenny’s team focuses on enabling individual teams at Toast to driv...
How Google measures developer productivity | Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green (Google)
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green, who lead the Engineering Productivity Research team at Google. Ciera and Collin have writte...
A customer service approach to improving DevEx | Jason Kennedy (One Medical)
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Jason Kennedy, Senior Engineering Manager of Developer Experience at One Medical. Jason’s team takes a uniquely customer...
Behind the scenes with Extend’s developer experience team | Matthew Schrepel and Luke Patterson (Extend)
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew and Luke lead Extend’s Developer Experience team, a team that has approached their work in a way that is more forward-thinking than most. In...
Platform teams vs enabling teams | Manuel Pais (Team Topologies)
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Manuel Pais delves into one of the concepts covered in his book “Team Topologies”: platform and enabling work. Manuel shares how he views the stra...
A close look at Peloton’s developer experience survey | Thansha Sadacharam (Peloton)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thansha Sadacharam, who leads Tech Learning and Insights at Peloton walks us through the journey of building the company’s developer experience surv...
A better way to measure developer productivity | A special episode with Laura Tacho and Abi Noda
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abi is interviewed by Laura Tacho about the new paper he co-authored with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, and Dr. Mich...
The developer experience of building a database | Tara Hernandez (MongoDB, Google)
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Hernandez, the VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB, joins the podcast to give an inside look at what the developer experience looks like at a...
How teams use productivity metrics at LinkedIn | Max Kanat-Alexander (LinkedIn, Google)
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Kanat-Alexander, the Tech Lead for the Developer Productivity and Insights Team at LinkedIn, shares an inside look at LinkedIn’s metrics platfor...
Inside Etsy’s multi-year DevEx initiative | Mike Fisher (Etsy, PayPal)
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Fisher, the former CTO at Etsy, spearheaded a multi-year developer experience initiative aimed at improving developer happiness and efficiency du...
Implementing a developer portal | Karl Haworth (American Airlines)
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Karl’s team at American Airlines were early adopters of Backstage, and in this episode he shares their journey of implementing and rolling out a dev...
Bringing the product management discipline to platform teams | Russ Nealis (Plaid)
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As product lead, Russ Nealis has been focused on introducing the discipline of product management in the Developer Foundations organization. This epis...
Intercom’s approach to a great on-call experience | Brian Scanlan (Intercom)
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this deep-dive episode, Brian Scanlan, Principal Systems Engineer at Intercom, describes how the company’s on-call process works. He explains how...
How Instagram Reels manages reliability | Jack Li (Instagram, Shopify)
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Li explains how his production engineering team rolled out a new incident review process, how they’ve made the case for investing in reliabilit...
A masterclass on DORA – research program, common pitfalls, and future direction | Nathen Harvey (Google)
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathen Harvey, who leads DORA at Google, explains what DORA is, how it has evolved in recent years, the common challenges companies face as they adopt...
An inside look at the SPACE framework | Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey (co-author, SPACE)
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, who goes by the name Peggy. Peggy is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, the...
Spotify’s failed #SquadGoals | Jeremiah Lee (Spotify, Stripe)
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Jeremiah Lee, who was previously a manager at Stripe and product manager at Spotify. This conversation focuses on org structure...
How much to invest in platform work | Jean-Michel Lemieux (Shopify, Atlassian)
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jean-Michel Lemieux, former CTO of Shopify and VP of Engineering at Atlassian, explains how to advocate for investing in platform work, which projects...
Principles for driving adoption and platform team growth | Jonathan Biddle (Wayfair)
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Biddle, Director of Engineering Effectiveness at Wayfair, shares the story of how his team found repeat success and subsequently grew in size...
Leading infrastructure change at scale | Ian White (DAT)
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian White, Director of Platform Engineering at DAT, joined the company to scale their Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, which has come under stre...
Positioning platform work in a down market | Brian Guthrie (Orgspace, Meetup)
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Guthrie, co-founder and CTO at Orgspace and former VP of Engineering at Meetup, has the unique experience of having previously decommissioned hi...
A deep-dive on real-time feedback and personalized surveys | Max Kanat-Alexander, Or Michael Berlowitz (LinkedIn)
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Max Kanat-Alexander and Or Michael Berlowitz (Berlo), share how they gather both periodic and real-time feedback from developers.Discussion points:Ove...
How to define your team's scope and charter | Mark Côté (Shopify)
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Côté, Director of Engineering of Developer Infrastructure at Shopify, explains an exercise the Infrastructure group went through to define thei...
Dropbox's journey with developer productivity metrics | Utsav Shah (Vanta, Dropbox)
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Utsav Shah, who leads Platform at Vanta and previously led Developer Effectiveness at Dropbox, shares the story of Dropbox’s journey with measuring ...
Using customer interviews to inform your roadmap | Michael Galloway (Doma, Netflix)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Galloway (Doma and ex-Netflix) describes his process for interviewing developers to understand where his team should focus. He also explains h...
Establishing a DevEx team in a high-growth company | Willie Yao (Notion, Airbnb)
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Willie Yao, Head of Infrastructure at Notion and former Head of Developer Infrastructure at Airbnb, provides a unique perspective on ...
A model for managing requests and complaints from developers | Jasmine James (Twitter)
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter’s Developer Experience team is more mature than most. Here, Jasmine James, a Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Experience, explains how...
From DORA to SPACE to DX - A Fireside Chat with Nicole Forsgren
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, author of award-winning book Accelerate and co-author of "The SPACE of Developer Productivity", talks ab...
The people side of engineering and an open conversation about Agile | Brent Strange (GoDaddy)
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Strange, Director of Engineering Excellence at GoDaddy, has a unique perspective on the role of an internal enablement team because he focuses m...
Moving Slack's development experience to remote environments | Sylvestor George (Slack)
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sylvestor George (Staff Software Engineer on Slack’s Internal Tools Team) led a project to move the entire development experience to remote environm...
Snyk’s journey with developer experience and productivity | Crystal Hirschorn (Snyk)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Abi Noda is joined by Crystal Hirschorn, who leads Platform Infrastructure, SRE, and Developer Experience at Snyk. In their conversati...
Supporting 100,000 engineers | Max Pugliese (IBM)
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Max Pugliese, formerly the Director of Developer Experience at IBM, offers a look at what it’s like to support tens of thousands of engineers. He ex...
The value of having a PM on a platform team | Jelmer Borst (Picnic Technologies)
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Abi speaks with Jelmer Borst, Product Manager for Picnic Technologies’ Platform group. Jelmer explains what the value is of having a...
Common pitfalls in adopting engineering metrics | Mojtaba Hosseini (Zapier)
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Mojtaba Hosseini (Director of Engineering at Zapier) talks about how to approach using metrics, pitfalls teams run into, and the co...
Advocating for the voice of the developer | Julio Santana (Workday)
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julio Santana from Workday shares how he thinks about the ideal scope of a Developer Experience team, getting buy-in for DX initiatives, how his team ...
Why founding a DevEx team is like starting a startup | Minh Pham, Titus Stone (Ibotta)
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we’re joined by Minh Pham and Titus Stone from Ibotta’s Developer Experience team. You’ll hear their story about how the DX team...
The ultimate guide on Engineering Operations | Ryan Atkins (Asana, Stripe, Dropbox)
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Abi Noda speaks with Ryan Atkins, Asana’s Head of Engineering Operations. They talk about the role of EngOps and when it’s needed,...
Staffing infrastructure teams | Will Larson (Calm, Stripe, Uber)
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Larson, the CTO at Calm, covers a wide range of topics including whether Infrastructure Engineering is chronically understaffed, the role of Eng ...
Supporting autonomous teams | Victoria Morgan-Smith (Financial Times)
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joining us for this episode is Victoria Morgan-Smith, the Director of Delivery for Engineering Enablement at the Financial Times. Victoria shares some...
What it looks like to hire Engineering Effectiveness too late | Peter Seibel (ex-Twitter)
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Abi talks with Peter Seibel. Peter previously was the Director of Engineering for the Democratic National Committee, and before that l...
Tactics for driving service adoption | Varun Achar (Razorpay)
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Varun Achar (Director of Engineering at Razorpay) explains how the Platform org has grown from a 15-person team owning everything, to...
How DoorDash’s developer productivity team prioritizes projects | Marco Chirico (DoorDash)
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Marco Chirico shares the strategies DoorDash’s Developer Productivity group uses to prioritize their work. He also explains how the...
How GitHub’s developer experience team has evolved | Liz Saling (GitHub)
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Saling, Director of Engineering at GitHub, shares the story of how the Developer Experience group was founded and why GitHub paused features for a...