Scaling Software Teams
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Achieving Gender Parity with Active Allyship with Denise Yu
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Denise is a Senior Engineer at GitHub, a prolific speaker, as well as an author and illustrator.In this episode, we dive deep into the role that gende...
Being Black in Tech with Kevin Stewart
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Stewart is an engineering leader who has worked across multiple company stages such as Fastly, Heptio, Nodesource, and Adobe. Today, he is the V...
Firing and Getting Fired with Zach Holman
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Holman was employee number 9 at Github. He was one of their earliest engineers, and he saw the team expand to over 250 employees. Years later, he...
Developing Leaders on a Team with Jill Wetzler
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you lead the leaders on your team? Today’s guest has been developing leaders for years, and she’s sharing her insights on this episode of S...
One-on-Ones with Jason Evanish
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know if your one-on-ones are effective? In this episode, we’re diving deep into one-on-ones with our guest, Jason Evanish. Jason Evanish ...
Cultivating a Highly Performant Remote Engineering Team with Jeremy Wight
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
These are challenging times, especially for engineering leaders. How do you “engineer” the trust in a distributed team that would occur normally i...
Becoming A Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A resilient manager is the foundation of every successful team. How do you become a more resilient manager? Today’s guest is here to show you how. L...
Wes Winham | Scaling Software: What to Expect in Season 2
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scaling Software Teams is back for Season 2! Last season we heard stories of triumph and failure from startup and scale-up leaders around the world. F...
Starting Up Your Second Office, With Brian Delahunty
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Delahunty is the Head of Reliability at Stripe, and was the Site Lead who helped them open and hire for their Seattle office. Throughout this pr...
Running Remote, with Liam Martin
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Martin is the CoFounder of staff.com and timedoctor.com. Combined, they have 40+ employees in 9 different countries and specialize in remote long...
On Startups and Escape Rooms, with Gregory Koberger
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gregory Koberger is the founder of ReadMe, a company that helps dev teams create and manage documentation and monitor APIs. He founded ReadMe after wo...
Launching a Coding School Without Writing a Single Line of Code, with Ariel Camus
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ariel Camus is the Founder and CEO at Microverse, a YC-backed distributed school for software engineers. They are available anywhere in the world, and...
The Three Questions To Ask Every New Manager, Part Two With Doug Gaff
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we bring you part two of our conversation with Doug Gaff. Doug is the VP of Engineering at Zapier, the software solution that helps your ot...
How Zapier Scales Past 100 Engineers, Part One With Doug Gaff
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Gaff is the VP of Engineering at Zapier, the software solution that helps your other software work together more effectively. His team recently c...
Building a World-Class Onboarding Process For Your Software Engineering Team
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is the final week of our community questions series, and we saved the best for last.We're not talking about hiring...we're talking about ...
What Do The Best Technical Assessments Have In Common?
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The most common questions we get are about technical assessments. It's an area of concern for a lot of engineering leaders. Some believe their tec...
How Can I Speed Up My Hiring Process Without Sacrificing End Results?
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There's a tension in hiring, especially with software developers. If I hire too slow, candidates withdraw. If I hire too fast, I may hire the wron...
Hunting Hidden Gems - Tricks to Find Great-fit Developers That Other Hiring Managers Miss
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some hiring managers are elite at finding diamonds in the rough. In this episode, we're going to learn why. This week, we talked to hiring manager...
Hiring Faster By Identifying Our Best-Performing Candidate Sources
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, we're talking about hiring. More specifically, how do we find the candidate sources that are bringing us the best cand...
What Changes Our Engineering Team Should Expect After a Major Round of Funding
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're talking about the scary side of a really exciting day...the day our startup raises a major round of funding. Unfortunately, more ...
Answering Your Best Questions With Engineering Leaders Across The World
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Usually, we feature interviews with engineering leaders who have experienced high-growth. For the next few weeks, we're changing things up a bit. ...
Changing Your Hiring Process After a Big Round of Funding, with Ryan Carroll
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Carroll is the VP of Engineering at Zylo, a SaaS company that helps you manage your SaaS spend. Last year, Zylo raised a $9M Series A round of fu...
Building Companies That Are Both Good & Valuable, with David Odmark
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Odmark is the Co-Founder and CTO of Greenlight Guru, a quality management software platform designed for medical devices companies that has unde...
Are All Women Engineers Like You?, with Rukmini Reddy
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rukmini Reddy is the VP of Engineering at Abstract, a design management system that centralizes design decisions, feedback, Sketch files, and specs fo...
Using Checklists For Onboarding Success, with Radoslav Stankov
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Radoslav Stankov is the Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He actually took over the post from our last guest, Andreas Klinger, and Andreas wanted u...
Hiring and Managing World-Class Remote Teams, with Andreas Klinger
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Klinger is the Head of Remote at AngelList, the largest remote hiring job board in the world. After building multiple remote teams at companie...
Achieving Operational Excellence Through Small Teams, with Melissa Leffler
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Leffler is the VP of Engineering at Drift, a chat software and conversational marketing platform based out of Boston that has grown a ton over...
Solving Your Elegant Puzzles, Part 2 with Will Larson
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Will Larson is the author of my new favorite engineering management book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, and this week, we’re...
An Elegant Puzzle, Part 1 with Will Larson
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Will Larson is the author of my new favorite engineering management book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Will has been an engin...
Why You May Want To Delegate Management, with Peter Cullen
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Cullen is the Product Architect at Dispatch, a software company that enables businesses to order a courier directly from the driver. Based out o...
We’re Not Google… And That’s a Good Thing, With Skyler Nesheim
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Skyler Nesheim is the VP of Engineering at Dwolla, a fast-growth FinTech scale-up. They’ve raised over $50M in venture dollars to connect enterprise...
Being Thoughtful About The Algorithms In Our Lives, With Jake Miller
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Miller is the CTO and Co-Founder of MetaCX, an Indianapolis-based startup that raised a $14 Million dollar initial round to revolutionize the Cus...
Hard Decisions on Fast-Growing Teams, With Ron Lancaster
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Lancaster is the CTO of Structural, a Minneapolis-based platform that allows clients to create an internal people network powered by both data sci...
Getting Diversity and Inclusion Right, With Jason Wong
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Wong is an engineering leadership consultant who focuses on Diversity and Inclusion. His past lives include engineering roles with Yahoo! Sports...
Why Remote Teams Don’t Always Work, With Kyle Gunderson
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Gunderson is the President and CTO at Revel Health, a Minneapolis-based software company that uses advanced analytics and AI to create health act...
Avoiding the All-Senior Trap, Part 2 With Charity Majors
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Charity Majors is the CTO at Honeycomb, a startup that builds observability for distributed systems, and this week, we’re diving into part two of ou...
Hiring for Strengths, Not Lack of Weaknesses, Part 1 With Charity Majors
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Charity Majors is the CTO at Honeycomb, a startup that builds observability for distributed systems.Occasionally, we have a conversation that’s so m...
How Speed Shaped Lambda School, With Bob Lauer
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Lauer is the VP of Engineering at Lambda School. Lambda School has been in the news a ton for the way they’re revolutionizing the financial mode...
Hiring and Mentoring Coding Bootcamp Grads, With John Harden
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Harden is the Principal Software Engineer at Kerauno. Kerauno is a workflow and communication software company that just raised a $25M Series A. ...
Doing Better Work, With Max Yoder
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Max Yoder is the founder and CEO of Lessonly, a team learning and training software company that raised a $8M Series B in late 2017. Max’s team is d...
Communicating Feedback to Your Team, With Miles Sterrett
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Miles Sterrett is a Partner at Fretless, a custom software development shop that helps software companies level-up their software chops. Miles’ team...
Getting the Technical Hiring Process Right
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're doing something different. Instead of talking to one engineering leader about a broad range of topics, we talked with a collectio...
Announcement: Woven Acquires Headlight
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s a really exciting day for us. Our startup just acquired a New York City-based tech hiring platform called Headlight. We're sitting down ...
Using Rubrics For More Objective Hiring, With Christine Spang
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Spang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Nylas. Nylas’ API powers communications in software applications, taking data from 4.5 billion inboxes ...
Empowering Our Teams With The Right Tools, With Amjad Masad
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amjad Masad is the founder and CEO of Repl.it. Repl.it is a Y Combinator-backed online development environment that helps developers learn, build, col...
Explaining the “Why” Behind Your Features, with Mitch Stewart
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mitch Stewart is the co-founder of Guru, a software company based out of Pennsylvania that is working with companies like Shopify, Square, and Spotify...
Increasing Your Offer Acceptance Rate With Sandwiches, With Austin Broyles
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Austin Broyles is the Director of Engineering at Primer, a Bay Area company using AI to parse and collate a large number of documents across several l...
Trying to Replace Yourself, With Eric Tobias
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Tobias is a Partner at High Alpha, a Venture studio that conceives, launches, and scales next-generation enterprise cloud companies. In this epis...
Being a Tortoise in a Hare's World, With Ade Olonoh
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ade Olonoh is the founder of two companies with similar names and very different stories.Formstack is an online form builder that has witnessed slow, ...
Treating Your Engineering Team Like Adults, Part 2 with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Kaplan-Moss talks to us about managerial practices he believes in, as well as practices he’s sick of, in this week's part two of his inter...
Managing Change In The Face Of Rapid Growth, Part 1 with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Kaplan-Moss is a veteran software leader and the co-creator of Django, the python web framework that powers Pinterest, Eventbrite, and Instagram...
Learning The Hard Work Of Hiring, with Randy Syring
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Syring is the Chief Executive Developer at Level 12, a custom software development organization in the Louisville area. Randy’s story is a fun...
Software Hiring Trial By Fire, With Steve Caldwell
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Caldwell is the VP of Data, Infrastructure, and Security at Springbuk where he leads a fast-growing team that has been hiring like crazy over th...
Managing Mental Health, With Micah Weaver
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Micah Weaver is the CTO of Bloomerang, a donor management software company for nonprofits. In our conversation, Micah opens up about suffering a panic...
Avoiding Mis-Hires Through Evidence, With Raman Ohri
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Raman Ohri is the President of SEP. He builds software teams that helps his clients build exceptional software and systems. SEP is different from many...
Embracing Your Inner “Latent Leader,” With Roger Deetz
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Deetz is the VP of Engineering at Springbuk, a fast-growing scale-up in our hometown of Indianapolis. Before that, he was the Vice President of ...
Wes Winham | Scaling Software: What's this all about?
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My name is Wes Winham, and I want to help you scale your engineering team. Listen to this episode to understand why I'm passionate about helping y...