Refactoring Podcast
Episodes
AI Coding meets Code Health 🪄 — with Stuart Caborn
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Stuart Caborn, distinguished engineer at loveholidays, which is an online travel agency with millions of customers around the wor...
Every Engineer Is a Manager Now 🤖 — with Chris Lattner
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Chris Lattner, one of the most important engineers for modern computing. Chris invented key compiler infrastructure tech like LLVM ...
What Comes After the IDE 🖥 — with Amelia Wattenberger
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Amelia Wattenberger, former principal research engineer at GitHub and now partner at Sutter Hill Ventures.But she's also a pr...
Leading Beyond the Framework 🧭 — with Richard Hughes-Jones
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Richard Hughes-Jones, a professional executive coach with more than 20 years of experience. With Richard, we talked about how to...
How to Master Behavioral Interviews 🎤 — with Austen McDonald
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Austen McDonald, former hiring committee chair at Meta, and author of the book, "Mastering Behavioral Interviews." Aus...
Building Apps with Your Voice 🎤— with Paige Bailey
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Paige Bailey, Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind. And before that, Principal Product Manager at GitHub, where she launch...
How Todoist is Built ✅ — with Gonçalo Silva
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Gonçalo Silva, CTO of Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist.This interview is an incredible behind the scenes about one of...
Career Sabbaticals and Self Discovery 🔍 — with Thiago Ghisi
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Thiago Ghisi!Thiago is former director of engineering at Nubank and with a long and successful tech career in companies like Thou...
The State of AI Adoption 📊 — with Matt McClernan
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Matt McClernan, CEO of Augment Code!With Matt, we went through the findings of our own research that we developed together with A...
How to Build Product Development Teams 🛠️ — with Rob Zuber
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI!With Rob, we talked about software delivery, the impact of AI, and how to build great product engineer...
From Knowledge to Wisdom 🧠 — with Hywel Carver
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Hywel Carver! Hywel is co-founder and CEO of Skiller Whale, which provides live team coaching for software engineering teams. Wit...
The AI Transformation at Intercom 🤖 — with Darragh Curran
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Darragh Curran! Darragh is the CTO of Intercom, which is one of the world's leading customer service products with more than...
Building Psychologically Safe Teams 🛡️ — with Meg Adams
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Meg Adams!Meg is Senior Director of Engineering for the New York Times. With Meg, we talked about her fantastic journey in tech, ...
Navigating AI Development Workflows 🛠 — with Birgitta Böckeler
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Birgitta Böckeler!Birgitta is is a distinguished engineer and global lead for AI-assisted software delivery at ThoughtWorks. Her...
Automating Team Processes Gracefully ⚡ — with Antonia Scheidel
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Antonia Scheidel!Antonia is Director of Engineering at Duolingo, where she made the whole career progression, starting as a simpl...
Technical Debt as Crime Scene 🔍 — with Adam Tornhill
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Adam Tornhill! Adam is the author of the popular book Your Code as a Crime Scene, and he's the founder of Code Scene. With Ad...
Diversity, AI, and Junior Engineers 🎨 — with Meri Williams
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Meri Williams, who is the CTO of Pleo and the host of LeadDev conferences for more than 10 years. With Meri, we started by talkin...
Thinking in Bets for Engineers 🎲— with Annie Duke
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Annie Duke, who is a former world-class professional poker player and one of the world's top experts on decision-making.She&#...
Refactoring at Scale Done Right 🏗️ — with Maude Lemaire
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Maude Lemaire, who is a principal engineer at GitHub and author of the book, "Refactoring at Scale."With Maude, we talk...
Building AI-Powered Podcast Learning 🎧 — with Kevin Smith
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Kevin Smith, who is co-founder of Snipd, one of the world's most popular podcast apps.With Kevin, we talked about his journey...
The Future of Dev Tools 🔧 — with Dennis Pilarinos
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Dennis Pilarinos, who is founder and CEO of Unblocked. With Dennis, we talked about his journey in tech, which is just incredible...
How to Manage Humans 🎽 — with Rands
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Michael Lopp, better known as Rands, who is Senior Director of Engineering at Apple and writer of several popular books about enginee...
The Vercel Journey 🔺 — with Guillermo Rauch
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Guillermo Rauch, who is CEO and founder of Vercel.With Guillermo, we talked about his journey in tech, from a small-town in Argentina...
How to Integrate AI in the Dev Process 🪄 — with Ori Keren
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Ori Keren, who is CEO and co-founder of LinearB and has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, especially in developer exp...
Measuring and Improving Developer Experience 📊 — with Abi Noda
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Abi Noda, the CEO and founder of DX, one of the leading engineering intelligence platforms.With Abi, we talked about measuring de...
Open-source, complexity & AI coding 🔧 — with Salvatore "Antirez" Sanfilippo
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Salvatore Sanfilippo, also known as Antirez!Salvatore is the creator of Redis, an open source data store used by hundreds of thou...
How to Coach CTOs 👑 — with Joel Chippindale
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Joel Chippindale!Joel is a full-time CTO Coach and one of the coaches-in-residence in the Refactoring community, where he runs mo...
The Future of Creative Organizations ✏️ — with Dan Shipper
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Dan Shipper!Dan is the CEO and founder of Every, which is one of the world's most popular publications, writing about AI and ...
Combining AI and Human Work 🤖 — with Marco Trombetti
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Marco Trombetti!Marco is the CEO and founder of Translated, one of the largest translation companies in the world, powering trans...
User-experience, Local-first apps and dev tools 🔧 — with Adam Wiggins
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Adam Wiggins! Adam is the General Manager of Platform at The Browser Company and co-founder of Heroku. With Adam, we talked abo...
Growing the development forest 🌲 — with Martin Fowler
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Martin Fowler! Martin is chief scientist at ThoughtWorks. He is one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and autho...
Profitable Engineering 🛠️ — with Aviv Ben Josef
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Aviv Ben Josef! Aviv has more than 20 years of experience in tech. He is an executive coach working with hundreds of engineering tea...
The Evolution of Engineering Management 👑 — with Pat Kua
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Pat Kua! Pat is a professional engineering and leadership coach with more than 20 years of experience in tech. He was CTO of N26 and...
Career frameworks for Engineers and Managers 🪜 — with Francesco Dominidiato
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Francesco Dominidiato! Francesco Dominidiato is CTO at Moneyfarm, one of the largest wealth management companies in Europe, and for...
Technical Storytelling at Google ✏️ — with Stephanie Wong
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Stephanie Wong! Stephanie is the Head of Technical Marketing at Google Cloud, where she blends storytelling and technology to inspi...
Communication Engineering 💬 — with Pramoda Vyasarao
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Pramoda Vyasarao! Pramoda is a leadership and communication coach, he has 20+ years of experience in big tech, wrote the book “Be...
Founder Mode & The Manager’s Path 👑 — with Camille Fournier
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Camille Fournier! Camille is an accomplished CTO and executive with 20+ years of experience in tech, and author of the timeless...
Merchants of Complexity 🏯 — with DHH
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is David Heinemeier Hansson! David is the creator of Rails, co-founder & CTO of Basecamp, a NYT bestselling author, and profes...
Continuous Coordination 🔀 — with Henry Poydar
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Henry Poydar! Henry is CEO and founder at Steady, with more than 25 years of experience in tech leadership roles. With Henry, ...
Dana’s Journey, Hiring Engineers & AI 🗺️ — with Dana Lawson
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Dana Lawson! Dana is CTO at Netlify and held leadership roles at incredible companies like GitHub, New Relic, InVision, and mor...
The Power of Influence 📣 — with Irina Stanescu
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Irina Stanescu! Irina is a full-time engineering coach, course instructor, and former manager at Uber and Google. With Irina, w...
Code Reviews, AI, and Modern Engineering 🔍 — with Greg Foster
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Greg Foster! Greg is CTO at Graphite, a tool that helps teams doing better code reviews, and smaller and faster code changes. ...
How Vercel Works 🔍 — with Malte Ubl
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Malte Ubl! Malte is CTO at Vercel, the frontend cloud provider, and creator and maintainer of Next.js, the most popular React f...
Good Tech Strategy / Bad Tech Strategy 🔮 — with Anna Shipman
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Anna Shipman! Anna is CTO at Kooth, former Technical Director at Financial Times, a Keynote speaker and accomplished author. W...
Elements of an Effective Software Organization 🔧 — with Rebecca Murphey
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Rebecca Murphey. Rebecca is field CTO at Swarmia, former manager at Stripe and Indeed, and the author of Build: Elements of an ...
Scaling Teams at Sanity, Github, and Google 🏢 — with Rachel Potvin
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Rachel Potvin. Rachel is SVP of Engineering at Sanity, ex-VP of Engineering at Github, and previously worked at Google and Ubis...
How Perplexity Works — with Denis Yarats 🤖
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Denis Yarats. Denis is co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, one of my favorite products and one of the most successful AI startu...
Facebook, Dropbox & Modern Engineering Teams 📈 — with Aditya Agarwal
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Aditya Agarwal. Aditya is a legend: he joined Facebook as employee #10 and, years later, joined Dropbox as CTO when there were ...
Observability & Testing in Production 🔭 — with Charity Majors
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb and one of my absolute favorite writers. I believe I have recommended more articles from her blo...
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience 📊 — with Laura Tacho (DX)
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, engineering leadership coach, and speaker. At DX, she works with hundreds of companies on improving thei...
Small Bets for Engineers 💰 — with Daniel Vassallo (Small Bets)
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Daniel Vassallo, the creator of the Small Bets community, which counts more than 5 ,000 members and includes engineers, entrepren...
How to be Successful as a Manager 🎽 — with Thiago Ghisi
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Thiago Ghisi, Director of Engineering at Nubank. Thiago has had an incredible tech career. Before Nubank, he worked at Apple, A...
It's Rarely About the Tech 👑 — with Andrew Weaver
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Weaver is co-founder and CEO of CTO Academy, an educational product that works with thousands of CTO today. Andrew has over 25+ years of execut...
Good Communication for Engineers 💬 — with Wes Kao
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Kao is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes an amazing newsletter for high-performers in tech. She is co-founder of Maven,...
How to Build High Performing Engineering Teams 🏗️ — with Maria Gutierrez (Personio, Twitter)
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering at Personio, and ex VP of Engineering and Operations at Twitter. With Maria we talked about how to build hea...
How to Improve Developer Productivity 📊 — with Kathryn Koehler (Netflix)
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Koehler is the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix. Her teams focus on the development environment and associated experiences, wh...
Running a Remote Big Tech — with Farhan Thawar (Shopify)
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Farhan Thawar is VP of Engineering at Shopify, angel investor, and entrepreneur. Shopify is a public company with thousands of employees, and one of t...
The State of Software Engineering — with Kent Beck
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Kent Beck, original signer of the Agile manifesto, creator of Extreme Programming, and all-round programming legend. With Kent we h...
Integrating AI into Products and Teams — with Disheng Qiu (Translated)
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Disheng Qiu is VP of Engineering at Translated, one of the largest translation companies in the world, powering localization for the likes of Airbnb, ...
The World Builder Framework — with Aadil Maan (Humane)
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aadil Maan is Lead Engineering Program Manager at Humane and a big tech veteran, having worked at the likes of Google, Apple, and Blackberry. Today’...
Leading and Human-ing in 2024 — with Lena Reinhard (CircleCI)
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lena Reinhardt has dedicated her career to helping technology leaders build successful engineering organizations. Her background includes roles such ...
Introducing the Refactoring Podcast 🎙️
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weekly interviews with world-class engineering leaders, available for free to everyone, in video and audio. 🗓️ New episodes drop every Friday. ...