S1E5 Rafe Colburn on the unique engineering culture at Etsy and building bridges with product

Rafe Colburn, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Depop joins the show to talk about his journey from a computer-loving kid to a seasoned engineering leader. We talked about the biggest lessons he learned from his time at Etsy, management by instinct, the dynamics between product and engineering teams, and his biggest priorities right now at Depop. 09:00 The evolution of engineering management and lessons from Etsy's engineering culture 15:00 Navigating product and engineering dynamics

Rafe's recommendation: beliapp.com

The James Stanier blog post we talked about: https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/the-disappointment-frontier