In this show, Doctor McKayla interviews experienced developers and thought leaders from around the world about how they develop software. Her guests reveal the best practices, engineering culture, and mindset that is lived at their companies.
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Episode 20: Fundamentally Changing How We Develop Software
In this episode, I talk to Tudor Gîrba, CEO and co-founder of Feenk, a software consultancy. Over the last 10 years, Tudor researched new ways to develop software –...
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Episode 19: Checking the Disability Box at Apple Changed My Life
This episode is part 2 of my interview with Cher. In this part, we deep-dive into her interview experience at Apple and how she worked her way up to...
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Episode 18: From Hardship to a Staff Engineering Position at Apple
In this special episode, I talk to Cher. Cher shares her inspirational story about she overcame hardship and poverty, and worked her way up to now be a staff...
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Episode 17 Why we hate to read code Trisha Gee
In this episode, I talk to Trisha Gee, who is the Lead of the Java Developer Advocacy Team at JetBrain. She is an expert for Java high-performance systems, and...
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Episode 16: Running A Successful Dev Shop with Martin Gratzer
In this episode, I talk to Martin Gratzer, CEO, and founder of Topmind. Topmind is a successful boutique dev shop in the heart of Carinthia in Austria. Martin shares...
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Episode 15: How to Succeed in Building Developer Tooling with Peter Pezaris
In this episode, I talk to Peter Pezaris. Peter is the CEO and co-founder of a start-up called CodeStream. What’s interesting about Peter’s story is that CodeStream isn’t his...
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Behind The Mic
Doctor McKayla
Michaela loves to learn how others develop software. You normally find her analyzing and tweaking software development processes and tools. She shares her knowledge and findings on her blog.
Scott Hanselman
Scott is a web developer who has been blogging for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott actively works on making tech a more welcoming place. Listen to this episode here.
Cassidy is a Senior Software Engineer at CodePen, one of the largest communities for designers and developers. CodePen has hundred of thousands of users, but the team is only 8 people strong. I talk with her what this means in term of responsibilities and ownership of the site. Listen to this episode here.
Dr. Leif Singer
Leif is a software engineer at Automattic, the company behind products like WordPress. He joins SE Unlocked to talk about how it is to work at a fully remote software company.
Sandeep Panda
Sandeep is the founder and CEO of Hashnode – a friendly developer community. In his interview, he shares how he built Hashnode from idea to a lively place that thousands of developers enjoy. Listen to this episode here.
Alper Kemal Koç
Alper was the first employee and the first engineer at a startup in Turkey that creates a low-code solution that allows users to create mobile applications without all the hassle. In this episode, he shares his experience building a software solution from the ground up.
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Episode 26: Software success through community building
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