
Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 50 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of the C++ programming language and a former researcher at Bell Labs. We talked about what Bell Labs was like, programming language design, and interesting anecdotes from his experience.
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David Malan is a Harvard professor known for turning CS50 into a popular online computer science course. We discussed the story behind CS50, how to lecture well, and how AI is changing CS education including in cheating/academic dishonesty.
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John Myles White recently left his role as a director of engineering at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) so we spoke freely about promo culture, how big tech has changed, and how his career grew.
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Barbara Liskov is a Turing Award winner known for her work in programming languages and distributed systems. We discussed the major problems she solved in her career, stories about Dijkstra, getting rejected from Princeton because she was a woman and... more
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never thought I am gonna hear the people with algorithms named after them talking. So amazing!
Been a fan of Ryan Peterman content since the email newsletter years ago and have kept up with the pod ever since it came out. Love hearing stories and wisdom of these experienced guys.
Quality production, quality content. Can’t complain.
Nice work Ryan - keep them coming
One of the best pod casts. I actually look forward to new episodes everyday!
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A compendium of conversations with senior software engineers and tech leaders who share pragmatic career lessons, architectural thinking, and firsthand industry histories. Episodes frequently explore building scalable systems, open-source governance, hiring and leadership lessons, and real-world tradeoffs in large tech organizations. Notable angles include postmortems culture, open-source impact on product strategy, and reflections on career navigation at top tech firms, startups, and research institutions. The show tends to attract listeners who want actionable insights for advancing technical careers, leadership capability, and understanding how high-performance teams operate in modern software engineering environments.
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Recent guests on The Peterman Pod include:
1. David Malan
2. John Myles White
3. Barbara Liskov
4. Mike Stonebraker
5. Marc Brooker
6. James Everingham
7. Brendan Burns
8. Austen McDonald
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