@Scale Conferences

About @Scale Conferences

The @Scale Podcast is a series of technical conversations for engineers who are building for billions. This podcast examines the latest news and trends, and takes deep dives into some of the most important issues facing engineers working at scale in today’s AI-dominated, ever-changing tech landscape. The podcast is part of the @Scale conference series, which happens throughout the year. It is hosted by Francois Richard and features regular guest experts to explore infrastructure in its many forms.

Publisher

Francois Richard

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 May 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

8 of 10 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Agentic Teams and Product Leadership with Michael Albers

   AI-native product executive Michael Albers discusses how falling building costs shift product leadership focus to judgment and strategic decision-making in this interview.

2. 

   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Scaling AI Infrastructure: Inside CoreWeave’s Global Network with Jim Johnson

   Francois Richard interviews Jim Johnson about CoreWeave's strategies for building and scaling global AI infrastructure at unprecedented speed.

3. 

   16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From Speech Recognition to Agentic AI: Inside AWS's Autonomous Agent Strategy | Anoop Deoras

   Francois Richard interviews Anoop Deoras, AWS Applied Science Lead, about building autonomous agents and the future of AI in business and software development.

4. 

   18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Hottest Job in the Market: Inside Meta’s AI Hardware Lab

   Host Francois Richard interviews Meta's Joshua Held and Yashar Bayani about designing cutting-edge AI hardware infrastructure, revealing the exciting evolution of thermal mechanical engineering.

5. 

   18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Meta Engineers Build Next-Gen Rack-Scale AI Infrastructure with Joshua Held and Yashar Bayani from Meta

   Meta Directors Joshua Held and Yashar Bayani discuss building next-gen AI infrastructure, from early servers to advanced liquid cooling, in this interview.

6. 

   11 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How AI Is Reshaping Product Management | Danran Chen, Senior Product Manager of AI at Zoom

   In this interview, Francois Richard interviews Danran Chen, Senior Product Manager of AI at Zoom, about how AI is reshaping product management and delivering user value.

7. 

   19 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   @Scale Podcast with CEO and Co-Founder of AudioShake, Jessica Powell | Episode 4

   In this podcast episode, Jessica Powell, co-founder and CEO of Audio Shake, discusses her company's innovative AI audio separation technology and journey from Google to startup founder. Jessica Powell is the CEO and co-founder of AudioShake, a sound-splitting AI technology that makes audio more usable for both humans and machines. Francois Richard is Engineering Director responsible for the Reliability Infra at Meta. Reliability Infra is focused on improving Meta’s reliability across the entire lifecycle of incidents by ensuring that Meta can swiftly and confidently recover from any type of outage caused by both known and unknown failures. Francois started at Facebook in 2017. His career spans nearly two decades of working in speech recognition, search, e-mail systems and distributed systems at Nuance, Yahoo and Meta. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal.

8. 

   1 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   @Scale Podcast with Founder of Juniper Networks, Dr. Pradeep Sindhu | Episode 3

   🎙️ New Episode: @Scale Podcast, Ep. 3 This week, Dr. Pradeep Sindhu — industry visionary, founder of Juniper Networks, inventor of the DPU, and current Microsoft leader — joins host Francois Richard of Meta for an insightful conversation. You’ll hear about: ✨ Lessons from Xerox PARC, Sun Microsystems, and Juniper ✨ The invention of the DPU and why CPUs can’t handle modern workloads ✨ How today’s AI moment compares to the rise of the internet ✨ Advice for startups, scaling teams, and innovating in hardware Perfect for senior engineers, startup builders, and anyone curious about the future of computing and AI infrastructure. Dr. Pradeep Sindhu is an industry visionary currently focused on data processing innovations at Microsoft. Sindhu, who co-founded Fungible Inc. and served as its CEO and CTO, is credited with inventing the Data Processing Unit (DPU) that revolutionized storage system efficiency. He is also the founder of Juniper Networks, where he led the development of all major products that shaped the future of networking infrastructure. Dr. Sindhu’s contributions have redefined networking hardware and software, driving advances impacting cloud computing and AI infrastructure. Francois Richard is Engineering Director responsible for the Reliability Infra at Meta. Reliability Infra is focused on improving Meta’s reliability across the entire lifecycle of incidents by ensuring that Meta can swiftly and confidently recover from any type of outage caused by both known and unknown failures. Francois started at Facebook in 2017. His career spans nearly two decades of working in speech recognition, search, e-mail systems and distributed systems at Nuance, Yahoo and Meta. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal.

9. 

   23 Jul 2025

   @Scale Podcast with Co-Founder of Anyscale and Databricks, Ion Stoica | Episode 2

   Joe Spisak, Product Director for Artificial Intelligence at Meta, sits down with Ion Stoica to discuss a wide range of topics related to the AI and machine learning industry, including the resurgence of reinforcement learning, large language models, the power of open source software, and the evolution of the AI tech stack. Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Director of SkyLab (https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/). He is currently doing research on cloud computing and AI systems. Past work includes Ray, Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Tachyon, Chord DHT, and Dynamic Packet State (DPS). He is an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the Mark Weiser Award (2019), SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2015), and several "Test of Time" awards. He also co-founded three companies, Anyscale (2019), Databricks (2013) and Conviva (2006).Joe Spisak is Product Director and Head of Open Source in Meta’s Generative AI organization. A veteran of the AI space with over 10 years experience, Joe led product teams at Meta/Facebook, Google and Amazon where he focused on open source AI, open science and building developer tools such as PyTorch to help the community scale up AI in an open and collaborative way. As the leader of product for PyTorch, he and the team built an amazing platform and community that made PyTorch the leading open source AI development framework in the industry and took it to the Linux Foundation where it now resides in partnership with Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon and more. Joe is also an angel and advisor to companies like Anthropic, Answer.ai, Lastmile.ai, Evolutionary Scale, Udacity, Lightning.AI, and others.

10. 

    28 May 2025

    @Scale Podcast with Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA, Mohamed Fawzy | Episode 1

    Mohamed Fawzy, NVIDIA Senior Director of Engineering, shares stories and insights on running hyper-scale systems and AI innovation across various companies in an interview with host Francois Richard.

Inside a recent episode

Agentic Teams and Product Leadership with Michael Albers

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Oh, that's great. And then you also, you know, part of that overall career transition, you transitioned from tech support to product. Yeah, I think product management is a unique career, actually, in that there's no linear path to become a PM. In fact, many universities don't even teach product management. Some are starting to, and I'm actually very excited about that. So yeah, I switched from tech support to product. And the way that actually happened is there was a client that I work with, Microsoft, that had a high bar for spelling and search. And so I started working with the relevance team, with the engineering team, And realized that, oh, now I actually get the shape, you know, the criteria, the definition of what is good and how you go about that. […]

Who has been a guest on @Scale Conferences

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Michael Albers
• Jim Johnson
• Anoop Deoras
• Joshua Held
• Yashar Bayani

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

8,679,276

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

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Quality

39

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

50

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