In today’s episode, Rebecca talks with Nathen Harvey who leads the DORA group at Google Cloud. Nathen shares insights from the 10th annual DORA report, covering topics like the relationship between AI adoption and software stability, the importance of transformational leadership, and the role of quality documentation.

In this episode, Rebecca talks with Iccha Sethi, the new VP of Engineering at Vanta. They discuss taking stock of an engineering organization as a new VP, how technical engineering managers need to be, and her work at Github, Atlassian, Invision, and now Vanta around operational health.

Emily Nakashima, VPE at Honeycomb, shares her experience about the hard choices an engineering leader has to make about how to structure — and sometimes restructure — their engineering org.

Mason Jones recently started a new role at Zapier, where he’s bringing his platform leadership experience from Lattice and Credit Karma.

Alice Bartlett, Tech Director for Customer Products at the Financial Times, shares what it takes to introduce modern technology to a 136-year-old company and how to successfully lead significant efforts to re-architect understandable but unfortunate decisions of the past.

Colleen Tartow, Field CTO and Head of Strategy at VAST Data, shares her experience from years in data engineering leadership roles.

Andrea Corey is a VP of Engineering for platform engineering at Homebase. Before her current role, she has built engineering organizations at multiple startups and scaleups — and knows exactly what pitfalls to avoid.

Liz Hustedt is a Senior Engineering Manager at ActBlue, an American political action committee and fundraising platform established serving left-leaning and Democratic nonprofits and politicians.

Scott Bonneau is the EVP of Product and Operations at Karat, the end-to-end solution for technical hiring. Before Karat, Scott has worked in various engineering and HR roles at Google and Indeed.

Lena Reinhard has been a cofounder and a vice president of engineering, including leadership stints at Travis CI and CircleCI.

Grant Jenks is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn where he works in the Insights & Analytics team — or the Fitbit for engineering teams.

Ben Vinegar has spent the last 8 years at Sentry in a variety of roles, from Software Engineer to VP of Engineering, and now GM of Syntax.fm, the company’s most recent acquisition.

This time, Rebecca is joined by David Demaree who’s a Principal Product Manager at Webflow, where he helps lead the designer experience effort.

In this episode, Rebecca Murphey interviews Alex Plugaru, CTO and co-founder of Gorgias, who shares his unique perspective on how to scale software without maximizing headcount.

Niilo is the CTO of Wolt, a subsidiary of DoorDash. In this episode, he talks to Swarmia founder and CEO Otto Hilska about lessons learned while rapidly scaling an engineering organization from 0 to 500+ developers.

This time, Rebecca is joined by Heidi Williams who runs the engineering organization of Grammarly Business.

Jack Humphrey, now an Engineering Director at LinkedIn, shares the story of how he radically improved the productivity of more than 1,000 engineers in a previous role.

In this episode, we hear from Christian Helvin, who works as an Engineering Director at Tithely.

On today’s show, Rebecca chats with Ainsley Escorce-Jones, Tech Lead for the Developer Infrastructure organization at Stripe.