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Engineering Unblocked

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Keeping software engineers in flow and unblocked is one of the key responsibilities of software development leaders. In each episode of the Engineering Unblocked podcast, Rebecca Murphey interviews leaders who have navigated challenges of scale, complexity, and growth. You’ll hear from people with lived experience across the software development ecosystem, from CTOs and VPEs to directors and line ... more

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In this episode, Tara Hernandez shares what 18 months of rigorous AI experimentation taught her at MongoDB — including why the initial results showed negative ROI, and where her team eventually found the real productivity wins.

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In this episode, Lada Kesseler shares what she’s learned from a year of hands-on experience building with AI coding tools — including the three fundamental challenges that define how these tools work, and why understanding limitations is what makes y... more

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In this episode, Rob Zuber shares what he’s learned from over a decade as CTO at CircleCI — including why the current market requires CTOs to be more hands-on than ever, and why he doesn’t even know who his competitors are anymore.

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In this episode, Michael Lopp shares what he's learned leading engineering teams at Slack, Pinterest, and Palantir — including why AI is delivering real but modest productivity gains, and why junior engineers churning out AI-generated code is probabl... more

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In this episode, Titus Winters discusses his framework for optimizing software’s commercial value, why having humans in the deploy phase is pure toil, and how to think about engineering productivity investments.

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In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca talks with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, to explore the myths of engineering productivity and the importance of building systems that enable “normal” engineers to succeed.

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In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca sits down with Allan Leinwand, Chief Technology Officer at Webflow and serial engineering leader who has scaled teams at Slack, ServiceNow, and Shopify. Allan shares his unique perspective on what it ... more

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In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca sits down with Kathryn Koehler, Director of Developer Productivity at Netflix, to explore the unique challenges of scaling engineering at a 20-year-old company.

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Episode: Develop, deploy, operate: Three stages of delivering business value with Titus Winters from Adobe
Charity Majors
CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb
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Episode: How to hire normal engineers and help them do great work with Charity Majors from Honeycomb
Kathryn Koehler
Director of Development Productivity at Netflix
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Episode: Navigating developer productivity at Netflix with Kathryn Koehler
Julianna Lamb
Co-founder and CTO of Stytch, a platform for user authentication and fraud detection.
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Episode: Preserving culture and delivery speed through growth with Julianna Lamb from Stytch
Nathen Harvey
Leader of the DORA group at Google Cloud
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Episode: The state of DORA and developer productivity with Nathen Harvey from Google Cloud
Iccha Sethi
New VP of Engineering at Vanta
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Episode: Mastering operational health with Iccha Sethi from Vanta
Emily Nakashima
Vice President of Engineering at Honeycomb
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Episode: Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb with Emily Nakashima from Honeycomb
Mason Jones
Director of Engineering at Zapier
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Episode: What makes a Platform Team work with Mason Jones from Zapier
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Episode: Pulling off a multi-month tech debt paydown project with Alice Bartlett from Financial Times

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Rebecca Murphey
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Navigating developer productivity at Netflix with Kathryn Koehler
Q: How are you spending time thinking about productivity at an individual team level?
We focus on whether our tooling is hindering a team's productivity rather than measuring individual metrics.
Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb with Emily Nakashima from Honeycomb
Q: How does Honeycomb approach hiring software engineers?
Emily explains that they emphasize communication skills and have a technical take-home exercise to evaluate candidates fairly, along with a synchronous debrief to discuss their approach to the task.
Rising to engineering leadership challenges at Honeycomb with Emily Nakashima from Honeycomb
Q: What does it mean to be VPE at Honeycomb?
Emily describes her role as being the departmental leader for engineering, focusing on both daily operations and strategic partner role in the executive team.
The evolution of data engineering in the age of AI with Colleen Tartow from VAST Data
Q: How do you handle expectations from stakeholders who want specific data metrics?
It's crucial to communicate the value generated from the work and the effort required to deliver specific metrics to manage expectations effectively.
The evolution of data engineering in the age of AI with Colleen Tartow from VAST Data
Q: What are the unique challenges of data engineering compared to software engineering?
Data engineering involves building pipelines that provide business value, focusing on data as a product, while software engineering typically centers on product development.

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Engineering leadership and developer productivity are central across episodes, with a focus on scaling teams, navigating complexity, and aligning engineering work with business outcomes. Conversations feature CTOs, VPEs, and senior engineering managers who share hard-won lessons on leadership philosophy, hiring, psychological safety, and the evolving impact of AI on software delivery. The show consistently surfaces practical strategies for improving developer experience, measurement of productivity, and sustaining healthy engineering cultures as organizations grow. A standout aspect is the emphasis on human-centric leadership and reality checks about hype cycles, offering listeners actionable insights they can apply to real-world teams and ... more

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