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The Peterman Pod

Ryan Peterman
Meta
Software Engineering
Career Growth
Instagram
Google
Startups
Amazon
Mentorship
Facebook
Claude Code
Engineering Career
Tech Acquisitions
Networking
Mozilla Firefox
Uber
Career Development
Anthropic
Microsoft
Kubernetes
Product Management

Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram

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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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Mike Stonebraker is a Turing Award winner famous for his contributions to fundamental database technologies. We discussed the story behind building Postgres, where he disagrees with Google/Amazon on databases, and what he's working on now.

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In this episode, I talked to Marc Brooker, a distinguished engineer at AWS who started there as a new grad and rose through the ranks. We discussed technical learnings from 3,000+ cloud system postmortems, how software engineering is changing with AI... more

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This is James Everingham, former head of engineering at Instagram and a veteran of the tech world with experience at Netscape. We talked about his unconventional start in the industry, learnings from every leg of his career, and regrets he has lookin... more

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Barbara Liskov
Turing Award-winning computer scientist known for contributions to programming languages and distributed systems
MIT/Research
Episode: Turing Award Winner: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems | Barbara Liskov
Mike Stonebraker
Turing Award–winning database researcher and creator of Postgres
University of California, Berkeley / DBoss Incorporated
Episode: Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker
Marc Brooker
Distinguished Engineer at AWS
Amazon Web Services
Episode: AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker
James Everingham
Former head of engineering at Instagram
Instagram (Meta)
Episode: Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham
Brendan Burns
Co-creator of Kubernetes, Google
Google
Episode: The Co-Creator of Kubernetes On Convincing Google, Building It, and Scaling for LLMs
Austen McDonald
Meta hiring committee member; led mobile hiring across Meta
Meta
Episode: Meta Hiring Lead On Behind The Scenes of Senior+ Eng Hiring
Bryan Cantrill
Distinguished engineer, Sun Microsystems; founder of Oxide
Sun Microsystems, Oxide
Episode: Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 276 ratings
  • Huge fan

    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.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    dusty-exe
    United States2 months ago
  • My go to podcast for long drives

    Quality production, quality content. Can’t complain.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Hankimproduction
    Canada6 months ago
  • Awesome conversations!!

    Nice work Ryan - keep them coming

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Pwner21
    Canada8 months ago
  • Great pod cast for career development

    One of the best pod casts. I actually look forward to new episodes everyday!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    walk boy
    Canada9 months ago

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AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker
Q: Why did you stay on call for so long?
Being on call has been a primary source of practical learning about distributed systems, enabling a deep understanding of how systems run under real customer conditions; it also drives a culture of automation and thorough postmortems rather than firefighting alone.
AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker
Q: And my immediate thought was, I want to ask you what makes a good postmortem?
A good postmortem digs into the details to truly understand what happened, looks beyond the proximal cause to the deeper reasons, and ends with concrete, multi-level improvements across technology, processes, and organization to prevent similar issues.
Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham
Q: What was the approach to Instagram Stories in terms of team structure and speed?
A small, high-skill team led by founders was set up with clear ownership and minimal dependencies to move quickly, demonstrating that fewer, more capable engineers can deliver faster than large, tangled efforts.
Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham
Q: Why open-source the browser, and what did that decision teach you?
Open-sourcing was a strategic move to mobilize thousands of developers to improve and sustain the product, which eventually fed into the Mozilla ecosystem and Firefox, despite early encryption and export controls that complicated distribution.
Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham
Q: What was it like working through the Browser Wars at Netscape and the shift to distribution over technology?
The interviewee explains that despite superior technology, the key battle was distribution; Microsoft bundled and gave away its browser, shifting user behavior and eroding Netscape's revenue model, which showed the importance of go-to-market dynamics over technical superiority.

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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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2. Mike Stonebraker
3. Marc Brooker
4. James Everingham
5. Brendan Burns
6. Austen McDonald
7. Bryan Cantrill

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