Hi, we're Aaron and Amy! We’ve been managing tech teams for a combined 12 years, and over this time have learnt (often painfully) what does and doesn’t work. In this podcast we'll be talking to the people we turned to for ideas, advice, and encouragement. Join us as we learn how to be better tech leaders.
Chris Evans, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Incident.io joins us to talk about all things incident-related. Chris, previously the Director for Platform and Reliability at Monzo is a regular conference speaker and author of a number of articles about incident management and observability. In this episode, we discuss The origins of Incident.io, including Monzo's open-source tool, Response [00:01:50]Building incident management tools as a way of expanding an incident management rota [00...
6 Apr 2022
Sarah Wells
We're joined by the incredible Sarah Wells. Sarah's most recently worked as Technical Director for Engineering Enablement at the Financial Times, where she spent the last 11 years leading tech teams as well as defining the tech strategy and product roadmap inside the FT. Sarah's also a frequent conference speaker presenting on topics ranging from microservices to engineering productivity. In this episode we discuss Sarah's experience of working at the Financial Times, learn the secrets ...
9 Dec 2021
Kelsey Hightower
We're thrilled to be joined by the incredible Kelsey Hightower! Kelsey is a Principal Engineer at Google, an author, and a prolific speaker and tweeter of tech trends. Kelsey is a vocal Kubernetes advocate and has played a massive part in teaching the Tech industry about the power and intricacies of Kubernetes. Kelsey is also possibly the kindest and most helpful person in Tech today! In this episode we discuss: How Kelsey became known as the nicest person in tech [00:01:57] ...
3 Mar 2021
Michael Lopp
We're excited to be talking to the one and only Michael Lopp, aka Rands from the incredible https://randsinrepose.com/. Rands is an engineering leader at Apple, having previously been VP of Engineering at Slack, head of engineering at Pinterest, as well as being the author of a number of amazing tech leadership books, including Managing Humans and The Art of Leadership, small things done well. Full show notes and the doodle are over at humansplus.tech/podcast-michael-lopp/ In this episode ...
29 Oct 2020
Jon Topper
Jon Topper, CEO and CTO of The Scale Factory joins us to chat about scaling, AWS, Kubernetes, and why we should all be thinking about boring tech. In this episode we cover The Scale Factory, how they help companies with the foundational tech.Scaling, and why Kubernetes isn't the answer to all your scaling concerns.Boring tech and why we should all probably we using it.Innovation days at work.Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners.Jon's experience with therapy and why we should all be se...
30 Aug 2020
Julia Evans
In this episode, we're so excited to be talking to the incredible Julia Evans. Julia is a software engineer and also an amazing illustrator and storyteller. She's the creator of Wizard Zines, the famous comics that explain complex tech in a short, simple and beautiful way. We chatted to Julia about how her inspiration and process for creating zines, deep dived into her "Help! I have a Manager!" zine as well as discovering why we should all be writing brag documents. You can find all t...
30 May 2020
Pat Kua
Pat Kua joins us to chat about Tech Leadership and engineering culture. Pat’s an incredibly experienced tech leader, most recently as CTO at N26. He’s also a regular keynote speaker, mentor, author of 3 books, and curator of the awesome Level Up newsletter. He recently launched the Tech Lead academy with his first course - Time Management for Tech Leaders. Pat gave us some new book recommendations, shared his top tips for tech leads, and gave us a behind the scenes look at how N26 sc...
29 Apr 2020
Meri Williams
We're joined by the amazing Meri Williams, previously CTO of Monzo, MOO, and M&S, as well as host and co-curator of the incredible LeadDev conferences. Meri's an experienced technical leader, one who's really technical - check out her story of soldering satellites! In this episode, we chat about creating fantastic conference line-ups who also happen to be diverse, pressures of being a high-profile CTO, ways to build and maintain an incredible network as well as all the usual book recomm...
10 Apr 2020
Kim Scott
Kim Scott, author of the New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor, talks to us about feedback, growth management and why reading novels is a great way to improve your management skills. Kim has been a CEO coach at a number of tech companies including Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter. Previously, Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google. Known for her ability to generate billions of dollars in revenue from millions of small...
16 Mar 2020
Camille Fournier
Join us in this episode of Humans+Tech as we chat to the incredible Camille Fournier, managing director of Two Sigma and author of the books The Manager's Path and 97 Things Every Engineering Manager should know.
25 Jan 2020
Patty McCord
The Incredible Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer of Netflix, coauthor of the viral Netflix Culture Deck, and author of the book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility joins us on Humans+Tech to share her lessons from working at Netflix and in Silicon Valley.
18 Jan 2020
Lara Hogan
In this episode of the Humans+Tech podcast we spoke to the mighty Lara Hogan about her latest book, Resilient Management. Lara, previously VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, Engineering Director at Etsy, more recently founded Wherewithall, where she coaches managers and leaders across the tech industry.
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