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Applying Agentic AI to the Supply Chain, Building Systems to Withstand Chaos, and Leveraging your Curiosity w/ Pooja Brown @ Inventry.ai

Engineering Founders · 2026-05-07

Scaling TensorFlow, Navigating Startup Pivots, ML Edge Infrastructure and AI Inference Strategy w/ Rajat Monga

Engineering Founders · 2026-07-30

Determining bets, using customer insights to pivot, and gaining developer buy-in & trust w/ Tomas Reimers #264

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-07-21

The Product Paradigm Shift: How Livekit Navigated High Stakes Scaling Challenges to Build the Future of Voice-First AI Interfaces w/ Russ d’Sa #262

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-06-23

Redefining profit, centering human flourishing, and building an incorruptible mission-driven roadmap w/ Eric Ries #260

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-26

Determining bets, using customer insights to pivot, and gaining developer buy in & trust w/ Tomas Reimers @ Graphite

Engineering Founders · 2026-05-21

How to know when your company needs to pivot and the signals/principles that will help guide you through pivoting w/ Pete Nichols, Lizzie Matusov, and Tony Dong

Engineering Founders · 2026-06-04

Building an empowered career w/ Jean Hsu & Cate Huston #261

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-06-10

Affirm’s AI-native transformation & how it’s driving operational excellence w/ Geddes Munson #259

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-19

Building reliable and proactive agentic systems at scale: how Shopify’s reflexive AI culture was instrumental in their development of Sidekick w/ Andrew McNamara #258

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-12

Scaling TensorFlow, Navigating Startup Pivots, ML Edge Infrastructure and AI Inference Strategy w/ Rajat Monga #256

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-04-28

How Enterprises Actually Win with AI: Operationalizing Responsible AI, Engineering Guardrails, Trust Controls, and Systems Thinking at Scale w/ Murali Swaminathan #255

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-04-21

Shifting Eng Leaders to Think Like GMs, Building an AI-Driven Visionary Roadmap & Braze’s Product Health Initiative w/ Jon Hyman #254

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-04-07

Changes in engineering management craft, career growth and all hands demos for inspiration and context w/ Lindsey Simon #252

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-24

Career growth for engineering leaders in the AI era: Building your thesis, the “running framework” & developing technical depth w/ Chris Chiu #251

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-19

From architect to AI exec: Scaling leadership, maintaining credibility & effective communication to non-technical execs w/ Prashant Ramarao #222

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-27

The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie #221

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-20

AMD’s unified hardware + software strategy & building an open-source AI ecosystem w/ Anush Elangovan #220

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-13

Lessons Leading EPD: Mindset, decision-making, 80/20 product strategy & pivoting for leverage/speed w/ Farnaz Azmoodeh #219

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-06

Recalibrating leadership priorities, leveraging your time & empowering senior leaders w/ Vinod Marur #216

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-04-15

From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman #215

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-04-08

Leading transformation, inspiring vision & empowering teams to operate autonomously w/ Kevin Stewart #212

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-03-18

Data governance, adversarial testing & more - Essential strategies to scale AI responsibly in a shifting regulatory environment w/ Jim Palmer #210

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-03-04

Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell #209

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-25

Upskilling: practices to improve hiring, storytelling & structuring personal/leadership problems with engineering principles #208

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-18

The innovation engine behind Samsara driving real-world impact: compounding feedback loops, data flywheels and embedding engineers in customer problems w/ Kiren Sekar #249

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-02-17

Cultivating product thinking, cross-functional leadership & the future of AI agent infrastructure w/ Jaikumar Ganesh #247

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-02-05

Scaling from point solutions to a unified, AI-powered product ecosystem w/ Vineeta Puranik #246

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-27

From localized to systematic speed: How Spotify deploys AI in prototyping, strategy & maintenance w/ Tyson Singer #245

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-21

Inside ELC’s 1st Hackathon: Deconstructing the operational playbook, implementation lessons & future of the program w/ James Tyack #244

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-13

What is leadership in the AI Era? w/ Bill Coughran & Bret Reckard #243

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-06

The AI Distribution Shift, Navigating PMF Collapse & Building AI-Native EPD Systems w/ Brian Balfour #241

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-23

How Atlassian built Rovo in 6 months: systematizing developer joy, autonomy/ownership, productivity champions & reducing ship time w/ Rajeev Rajan #240

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-17

From developer to builder/system designer, managing AI agents like team members & monday.com’s evolving R&D playbook w/ Daniel Lereya #239

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-09

Brex 3.0: An 18-Month Operational Evolution & the Brex Hacker House “AI Startup within a Startup" experiment w/ James Reggio #236

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-11-12

The Impossible Job of Managers, Leadership Co-Pilots, Scaling Great Management & Augmenting Human Relationships w/ Jonathan Raymond #235

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-11-05

A Systems-Level Guide to High-ROI AI Impact w/ Laura Tacho #234

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-10-29

Platform Engineering's Shift from Tactical 'How' to Strategic Curator & Natural Language as the New Interface Paradigm w/ Miriam Aguirre #233

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-10-21

Grit, the vision bottleneck & building for a future where today’s technical constraints may disappear w/ Chrystal Henke Ball #232

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-10-15

Leading across technical domains, strategic deep-dives & applying your skills in new industries w/ Simone Kalmakis #231

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-09-09

How Box Builds AI Agents, Redefines Technical Vision, and Balances Speed with Security w/ Ben Kus #230

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-08-26

Rewriting the Engineering Leadership Playbook: An ELC Annual 2025 Preview #229

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-08-19

Vision-first leadership & reimagining product w/ “Shift Out,” Do-It-as-a-Service & Jobs-to-Be-Done w/ John Amaral #226

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-07-08

Scaling decision-making, designing eng orgs for speed & scope as underrated leverage w/ Dhruv Parthasarathy #225

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-06-25

GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton #207

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-11

Navigating Rapid Change: Skills to Cultivate Resilience, Adaptability & Creativity in Engineering Teams w/ Melody Meckfessel #206

The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-04

The Product Paradigm Shift: How LiveKit Navigated High Stakes Scaling Challenges to Build the Future of Voice-First AI Interfaces w/ Russ d’Sa

Engineering Founders · 2026-04-23

Finding your customers’ burning needs, validating ideas, expanding products & navigating new markets w/ Ryo Chikazawa @ Autify

Engineering Founders · 2026-01-15

Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler

Engineering Founders · 2025-08-14

Early team building and pivoting to competitive advantage as a solo founder w/ Tony Dong @ Propel

Engineering Founders · 2025-07-17

Building insight engines, emotionally intelligent AI products & blending PLG / enterprise GTM w/ Aiswarya Sankar @ Entelligence.AI

Engineering Founders · 2025-05-29

Shifting from founder-led sales to repeatable GTM, differentiating on responsiveness/customer support & the art vs. science of product building w/ Stephen Whitworth @ incident.io

Engineering Founders · 2025-02-13

Pricing is the API Between Your Business Model and Customers & Great Product Experiences are Made in the Margins w/ Michael Grinich @ WorkOS

Engineering Founders · 2025-01-30

GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton @ Arcjet & Console

Engineering Founders · 2025-01-16

Inspiring BIG ideas and deconstructing ambitious projects into smaller questions, core tech, and POCs w/ Ivan Poupyrev & Jamie Lien @ Archetype AI

Engineering Founders · 2024-12-20

De-risking the co-founder relationship & experiments to stress-test your partnership w/ Jake Schwartz @ Endorsed

Engineering Founders · 2024-12-12

Scaling costs & being enterprise ready from day 1 w/ Nancy Wang

Engineering Founders · 2024-11-07

Why you SHOULDN’T become a founder w/ Travis McPeak @ Resourcely

Engineering Founders · 2024-10-24

Leveraging distribution & community to accelerate your startup w/ Mariane Bekker @ Founders Bay

Engineering Founders · 2024-06-13

Building a mission-driven, bootstrapped business & transitioning from side-gig to full-time: w/ Darian Shimy @ FutureFund

Engineering Founders · 2024-05-30

Scaling yourself ‘down’ as an engineering leader w/ James Everingham @ Lightspark

Engineering Founders · 2024-03-21

Execution strategy, proof of concepts & intermediate value-creation steps at deep tech startups w/ Quinn Jacobson

Engineering Founders · 2024-02-15

Your eng background is your founder advantage w/ Jorge Torres @ MindsDB

Engineering Founders · 2024-01-11

Finding opportunity in areas w/ poor implementation, shaping tech innovation into products & creating fast time to value w/ Gaurav Oberoi @ Lexion.ai

Engineering Founders · 2023-12-21

Solving the right problems and competing on execution risk w/ Varun Mohan @ Codeium

Engineering Founders · 2023-11-30

Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell @ Great Expectations

Engineering Founders · 2023-11-02

Assessing emerging trends and why your product should go broad vs. narrow w/ Karan Talati @ First Resonance

Engineering Founders · 2023-10-19

Open-source to commercial product, repeatable sales models + making your 1st marketing hire w/ Ramiro Berrelleza

Engineering Founders · 2023-10-05

Overcoming product bias, embracing specificity, growing your user-base & developing extroverted qualities w/ Roni Dover

Engineering Founders · 2023-09-22

Early-day founding &  funding decisions, choosing ideas + using community tools to build a dev-tool company w/ Paul Dix

Engineering Founders · 2023-08-28

Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader w/ Jessica McKellar

Engineering Founders · 2023-08-17

Company building in highly competitive industries w/ Rick Song @ Persona

Engineering Founders · 2023-07-21

Lessons co-founding and operating an AI/ML company during massive market shifts w/ Jared Roesch

Engineering Founders · 2023-06-22

Identifying your internal champion & finding the right data/stories to sell into companies w/ Buchi Reddy Busi Reddy

Engineering Founders · 2023-05-25

Gaining early-design partners, converting your first customers, identifying your ICP & default delegating w/ Mahima Chawla

Engineering Founders · 2023-05-04

Lessons from building in public & re-discovering product-market fit w/ Charley Ho & Alexander Embiricos

Engineering Founders · 2023-04-21

Company building with 3 co-founders, delineating roles & finding repeatable sales channels w/ Dylan Etkin, Don Brown & Michael Knighten @ Sleuth

Engineering Founders · 2023-04-06

Navigating the new fundraising environment, idea-mazing, relationship pipelines, and overcoming pattern-matching bias w/ Lizzie Matusov

Engineering Founders · 2023-03-16

Pre-Seed Fundraising Strategy w/ Ihar Mahaniok

Engineering Founders · 2023-01-27

Building a vertically integrated Saas business from day 1 w/ Sean Stavropoulos @ Boulevard

Engineering Founders · 2023-01-06

Pitching & consumer-based go-to-market lessons from ComicCon w/ Chris Pruett @ Jam

Engineering Founders · 2022-12-22

Developer experience & building a developer-first company w/ Sagar Batchu @ Speakeasy

Engineering Founders · 2022-12-08

Top-down / Bottoms-up sales strategy, pricing, and enterprise product adoption w/ Abi Noda

Engineering Founders · 2022-11-17

Clarity on product building, business strategy, and activating your network (if you’re anti-networking) w/ Adam Oliner

Engineering Founders · 2022-11-04

Pre-seed fundraising, pitching investors & dealing with rejection w/ Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie

Engineering Founders · 2022-04-07

Market validation, making demos work at all costs & designing impossible shapes w/ Bradley Rothenberg

Engineering Founders · 2022-03-25

Hiring top-tier talent, leveraging open source models, and staying competitive in the age of AI w/ Benny Chen @ Fireworks AI

Engineering Founders · 2026-07-24

Community-driven product roadmaps and why engineering leaders have a unique founder advantage w/ Lenny Pruss @ Amplify

Engineering Founders · 2026-07-16