Software Misadventures

55 Episodes

1. The hard power of management and the soft power of senior ICs | Josh Wills

   Published: 3/19/2024
2. From High School Suspension to US Chief Data Scientist | DJ Patil

   Published: 3/5/2024
3. Building Diverse Engineering Teams | Erica Lockheimer

   Published: 2/20/2024
4. Stories behind building HashiCorp | Mitchell Hashimoto

   Published: 1/30/2024
5. Practical Guide to More Effective Mentorship | Dave O'Connor (Google, Twilio, Elastic)

   Published: 1/16/2024
6. War stories from early days of engineering at LinkedIn | David Henke (LinkedIn, Yahoo)

   Published: 1/4/2024
7. Automating away your job as a Data Scientist | Melissa Runfeldt (Salesforce, CueIn)

   Published: 12/12/2023
8. Open sourcing LinkedIn's Derived Data Platform | Felix GV (LinkedIn)

   Published: 11/28/2023
9. When enough was enough - practical and emotional drivers for leaving big tech to bootstrap Metacast | Arnab Deka & Ilya Bezdelev (AWS, Google)

   Published: 11/7/2023
10. Pete Warden - On launching "AI in a Box" and building a hardware edge AI company - #24

    Published: 10/23/2023
11. Nathan Marz - On changing the economics of building large-scale software with Rama - #23

    Published: 9/22/2023
12. Kelsey Hightower - On retiring as Distinguished Engineer from Google at 42 (Part 2)

    Published: 8/3/2023
13. Kelsey Hightower - On retiring as Distinguished Engineer from Google at 42 (Part 1)

    Published: 7/24/2023
14. Julie Amundson - Career breaks, job search amidst hiring freezes, positioning yourself and much more - #20

    Published: 6/27/2023
15. Chris Pruett - On deciding to leave LinkedIn and co-founding Jam, values based decision making and compassionate leadership - #19

    Published: 6/3/2022
16. Software Misadventures Update and Plans for 2022

    Published: 3/25/2022
17. Kailash Nadh - On being an absurdist and building the tech team at Zerodha, India's largest stock broker - #18

    Published: 2/25/2022
18. Michael Lynch - On quitting google for indie hacking, bootstrapping to $450K+ ARR in public, writing personal retrospectives and more - #17

    Published: 1/14/2022
19. Cory Watson - Leading observability teams at Twitter & Stripe, how to succeed in a new org, effective ways to advocate for your team and more - #16

    Published: 11/12/2021
20. Ashwin Kumar - On learning new things by breaking them down, the secret to winning >$100k from hackathons, the art of storytelling, and much more - #15

    Published: 10/12/2021