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 9: From Consultancy To Product Company Charlie Gerard
Charlie Gerard is a career changer, that recently started working at Atlassian after working at ThoughWorks as a software consultant. In this episode, she talks with me about her...
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Episode 8: Parent Driven Development at Github with Allison McMillan
In this episode, Allison McMillan, a software engineering manager at Github joins me to talk about how she broke into tech from a non-traditional background, how she overcame obstacles...
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Episode 7: Troubleshooting systems through Observability with Charity Majors
In this episode, I talk to Charity Majors, founder, and CTO of honeycomb. Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating your production systems. It represents the new generation of monitoring...
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Episode 6: Making Git faster with Derrick Stolee
In this episode, I talk to Derrick Stolee, a principal software engineer at Microsoft who makes sure the Git version control system is lightning fast. We talk about: his...
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Episode 5: Being the first engineer at a startup with Alper Kemal Koç
In this episode, I talk to Alper Kemal Koç, who was the first engineer building a low code platform called Kuika, that helps users develop mobile applications. Alper shares...
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Episode 4: Getting a remote job at Auttomatic with Leif Singer
In this episode, I talk to Leif Singer, an engineer at the fully remote company Automattic. Automattic is the company behind WordPress, a famous and powerful content management system...
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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 15: How to Succeed in Building Developer Tooling with Peter Pezaris
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