ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Delivery
Episodes
Special ShipTalk Episode from DND NYC 2026
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode where we sat down with the speakers at DevOpsNotDead NYC 2026 to hear their perspectives on how AI is transforming software ...
Special ShipTalk Episode from SREday NYC 2026
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode where we sat down with the speakers at SREday NYC 2026 to hear their perspectives on how AI is transforming software deliver...
Crown Jewels In, Crown Jewels Out – The Hidden Risk of AI with Devan Shah (IBM)
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you secure data in the age of Agentic AI? 🤖🔐In this episode of ShipTalk, Dewan Ahmed sits down with Devan Shah, Chief Architect of Data S...
CTO Predictions for 2026: How AI Will Change Software Development (with Harness Field CTO Nick Durkin)
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special predictions episode of ShipTalk, host Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate, Harness) sits down with Nick Durkin, Field CTO at Ha...
Beyond the Magic Box: Solving AI Hallucinations with Precision RAG (with Evgeny Ilinykh)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ShipTalk Podcast, host Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate at Harness) sits down with Evgeny Ilinykh (Founder of GuidedMi...
Shipping Practical AI: How Autodesk Builds Real-World ML in AutoCAD (with Marina Petzel)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ship Talk, host Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate, Harness) sits down with Marina Petzel, Senior ML Engineer and AI Product...
Beyond Dashboards: How AI Is Redefining Developer Productivity with Adeeb Valiulla
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, host Dewan Ahmed sits down with Adeeb Valiulla, a leader in developer productivity and engineering excellence at Harness,...
AI for Security vs Security for AI: From IBM Master Inventor to Microsoft AI Architect
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dewan Ahmed sits down with Fatih Bulut, AI Architect at Microsoft and former IBM Research Master Inventor, to separate hype from reality in AI for sof...
Debugging Developer Productivity in an AI-native World with Aravind Putrevu (CodeRabbit)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, Chinmay Gaikwad sits down with Aravind Putrevu, Head of Developer Relations at CodeRabbit, and dives into the evolving la...
DORA, DevEx, and the Role of AI with Nathen Harvey (Google Cloud)
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this kickoff episode of ShipTalk Season 4, Dewan sits down with Nathen Harvey, DORA Lead and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, to explore how Dev...
From Windows Kernel to AI-Native Platforms: Scaling Engineering Teams and Systems with Puneet Saraswat
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special season 3 finale of ShipTalk, host Dewan Ahmed sits down with Puneet Saraswat, VP of Engineering at Harness, for an inspiring conversat...
Virtualizing Kubernetes: Efficiency and Developer Experience with Lukas Gentele from Loft Labs
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ShipTalk podcast, co-host Eric Minick talks with Lukas Gentele, co-founder and CEO of LoftLabs, about revolutionizing Kubernete...
ShipTalk S03E08 - From Motocross to Microservices (Kyle Galbraith, CEO of depot.dev)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dewan sits down (virtually) with Kyle Galbraith, co-founder of Depot, to explore his unique journey from motocross videographer to st...
DevOps Decoded: Navigating the ServiceNow Ecosystem with Ron Gidron
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of ShipTalk podcast, Ron Gidron, CEO of X Type, discusses the unique challenges of DevOps in platform-based environments like ServiceN...
Write It Down: Brendan O'Leary from Prefect.io
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan O’Leary shares his journey from helping GitLab scale to IPO to his current role at Prefect.io, focusing on Pythonic orchestration. He explai...
The Right Time for Adoption: DevOps Trends with Cerbos' Alex Olivier
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, host Dewan Ahmed sits down with Alex Olivier, the CPO and Co-founder of Cerbos, to explore the evolving landscape of DevO...
Mastering Stress and Automation in DevOps with Vishwa Krishnakumar (Zenduty)
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Ship Talk podcast, host Dewan Ahmed welcomes Vishwa Krishnakumar, co-founder of ZenDuty, to delve into the complexities of soft...
10 years into K8s; when is a problem worth solving? Ken Ahrens - Speedscale
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined with Ken Ahrens, CEO and Founder of Speedscale. Kubernetes is turning 10 this summer and we dig into how ...
From Code to Culture: Matt Anger's Odyssey in Software Engineering at DoorDash
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the ins and outs of software engineering and organizational culture in the ShipTalk Podcast. In this episode, Dewan Ahmed, a Principal Develop...
Starting an SRE Practice in a Critical Industry - Vlad Ukis - Siemens Healthineers
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the latest season of ShipTalk! In this episode, we get to talk to Dr. Vlad Ukis, Head of R&D for Siemens Healthineers and author of Est...
ShipTalk - S02E08 - Home automation, the remote worker to manager gap, and living in an RV - Scott Lee - Arch Mortgage Insurance Company
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, Arch Mortgage Insurance Company's Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Scott Lee, discusses his home automation so...
ShipTalk - S02E07 - Cloud Native DevOps in Financial Services, Croatian magic, and health education for kids - Bijit Ghosh - Deutsche Bank
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, Deutsche Bank's Head of Cloud Engineering , Bijit Ghosh, takes us on a culinary journey to Croatia, discusses cloud ...
ShipTalk - S02E06 - Its All About the People - Imposter Syndrome - Deserted Island Foods
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, our host Jim Hirschauer interviews many of the speakers from the WTF is SRE conference and discusses the many life lesson...
ShipTalk - A new word for techies, using your observability data lake to do good, and some HEMA-toma inducing sword play - Hilliary Lipsig - Red Hat
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Red Hat's Chief Mermaid, Hilliary Lipsig, defines a new word that all techies should adopt into th...
ShipTalk - The value of IDP at AWS, the $1M cellular outage, and the most useless beer cooler ever - Kyle Shelton - Consultant to Toyota Racing
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Kyle Shelton tells us about his experience using and building developer platforms to enhance the develo...
ShipTalk - A "Civ tech tree" for SREs, the M-word, and a new unit of measure called "Micro-Jacksons" - Steve McGhee - DevRel at Google
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Steve McGhee shares tells us about a new open-source project that helps SREs understand which capabilit...
ShipTalk - Heavy Rock, Netflix vs. Google, Continuous Resiliency, and a Lost City - a conversation with Adrian Cockcroft
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Adrian Cockcroft shares his thoughts on "the 5th accelerate metric" - reliability - and the S...
ShipTalk - Lean into pipelines for speed, efficiency, and reliability - Bryan Finster - Defense Unicorns
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Bryan Finster discusses how to ensure reliability and resiliency across the SDLC by making everything p...
ShipTalk - Don't Let Efficiency Nuke Your Reliability - Matt Schillerstrom - Harness
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Matt Schillerstrom shares stories from his time working in reliability at a nuclear power plant and at ...
A Master Class in DevOps Executive Coaching - Joni - StackHawk
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Joni Klippert who is the CEO of StackHawk. Joni has been in leadership roles in the DevOps space for ove...
A Time Before, During, and After Kubernetes - Santiago - GumGum
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk we are joined by Santiago Campuzano. Santiago is a Lead DevOps Engineer at GumGum and has seen his fair share of distribut...
What is O11Y? Observability Demystified - Chris Riley - Splunk
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Chris Riley who is a Senior Developer Advocate at Splunk. Chris's background spans years of profess...
From House Fires to Production Fires - James Bohrman - Cloudspeakers
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by James Bohrman who is the founder of Cloudspeakers. James had an interesting path to technology. James st...
DevOps in a Highly Regulated Industry - Donovon Carter - Dexcom
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Donovon Carter who is a DevOps Engineer at Dexcom, a medical device company. Dexcom is one of the firms ...
Shifting Complexities in DevOps - Jim Shilts - NADOG/Shipa
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Jim Shilts who is the founder and organizer of North American DevOps Group or NADOG and is a developer a...
Washing Away Imposter Syndrome - Bart Farrell - Data on Kubernetes Community
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Bart Farrell who leads the Data on Kubernetes Community. Bart certainly has not had a traditional path t...
The Brass Tacks of Open Source - Tracy Miranda - Continuous Delivery Foundation
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Miranda who is the Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation which is part of the L...
Dev and Ops, DevOps from the Ops Side - Chris - ABC Fitness
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we talk to Chris Jowett who is a DevOps Architect at ABC Fitness. Chris has significant system engineering experience and...
Finding Your Tribe - Tracy Ragan - DeployHub
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO of DeployHub. Tracy is no stranger to open source communities spending time w...
Scaling to Scale - Bob Chen - ADP
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Bob Chen who is a Director of DevOps at ADP. Bob has been practicing and now leading DevOps organizati...
DevOps and Education, Closer Than You Think - David - GoSpotCheck
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we have a great conversation with David Sudia who is a Senior DevOps Engineer at GoSpotCheck. Prior to being a DevOps Eng...
Always Stay Curious - DevOps Leadership - Frank - DataStax
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, we talk to Frank Moley who is a Senior Manager of platform engineering at DataStax. Having the ability to respect multi...
Scaling Your Career and DevOps Organization - Nidhi - Nationwide
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ShipTalk, Nidhi Allipuram who is the AVP of DevOps Platforms at Nationwide Insurance talks about a career journey to DevOps and how...
Site Reliability Engineering 101 - Bob Strecansky - MailChimp
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Bob Strecansky who is a Staff SRE at MailChimp. A packed podcast about all things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Lear...