
StaffEng
by David Noël-Romas (@davidnoelromas) and Alex Kessinger (@voidfiles)
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StaffEng with Karla Burnett: You're all 100x engineers...now what?
Apr 27, 2026
44m 31s
A look inside an engineering team @OpenAI with Dylan Vassallo
Apr 10, 2026
44m 43s
How BabyList Accelerated AI Adoption in Engineering with Karynn Ikeda
Mar 20, 2026
49m 35s
I Haven't Opened an IDE Since November — Will Maier
Mar 11, 2026
47m 03s
We're back!
Jan 20, 2026
8m 05s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 4/27/26 | ![]() StaffEng with Karla Burnett: You're all 100x engineers...now what? | Karla joins Alex and David from Sydney, where she's been building security-conscious AI workflows at Lorikeet--a customer service automation company where writing code by hand has officially become "artisanal." https://www.lorikeetcx.ai/ https://x.com/tetrakazi | 44m 31s | ||||||
| 4/10/26 | ![]() A look inside an engineering team @OpenAI with Dylan Vassallo✨ | engineering teamAI tools+4 | Dylan Vassallo | OpenAIPeople Innovation Labs | — | engineering managerAI-powered tools+3 | — | 44m 43s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() How BabyList Accelerated AI Adoption in Engineering with Karynn Ikeda | Hosts: Alex Kessinger & David Noël-Ramos Guest: Karynn Ikeda — Former Engineering Manager → AI Enablement Program Manager at Babylist @ktikeda Karynn Ikeda shares the full arc of how Babylist adopted AI across its engineering organization — from a six-week Windsurf pilot on a single team, to company-wide Claude Code adoption and a bold initiative to onboard product managers and designers into the codebase. She discusses leadership buy-in, measuring developer sentiment over raw veloc... | 49m 35s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 | ![]() I Haven't Opened an IDE Since November — Will Maier | Will Maier leads growth engineering at Stripe, where he's spent the last five years working across nearly every surface of the product. His background isn't CS — it's the history of science — and he's been through enough industry shifts (racking servers, the cloud transition, DevOps) to know when something really big is happening. Find us now also on YouTube: @StaffEngPodcoast In this season premiere of StaffEng, Will joins Alex and David to talk about what changed for him after November 2025... | 47m 03s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | ![]() We're back! | After 3 years, we’re coming out of retirement, because something fundamental broke open in the last few months—something that changes everything about how we work. We Don’t Know How to Learn This Yet AI coding tools promise a 10X—maybe 100X—productivity boost. But here’s what we’re seeing: most engineers don’t know how to learn these tools. The old playbook—read the docs, practice, master—doesn’t work when the tools are fundamentally stochastic and changing weekly. Even worse, there’s nowhere... | 8m 05s | ||||||
| 12/28/21 | ![]() Alex Kessinger (Stitch Fix) and David Noël-Romas (Stripe) | This episode is a celebration of the journey we have been on as this podcast comes to a close. We have had such a great time bringing you these interviews and we are excited about a new chapter, taking the lessons we have learned forward into different spaces. It's been a lot of work putting this show together, but it has also been such a pleasure doing it. And, as we all know, nothing good lasts forever! So to close the circle in a sense, we decided to host a conversation between the two of ... | 1h 07m 58s | ||||||
| 12/14/21 | ![]() Peter Stout (Netflix) | The structures of an organization can often be self-reinforcing, and in a changing environment, this becomes a recipe for future vulnerabilities. That is why senior ICs need to play a slightly discordant role at times by alerting teams to issues conventionally outside of their bubble of concern. Peter Stout is a Technical Director at Netflix where he has a cross-functional role at the juncture of business and technology. He joins us on the show today to share some of the finer details around ... | 52m 11s | ||||||
| 11/30/21 | ![]() James Cowling (Convex) | Often the biggest impacts a Staff Engineer can make in their organization are not technical but rather people-related. When teams are value-aligned due to good leadership, they go on to make larger impacts than they would otherwise have. As Senior Principal Engineer at Dropbox for almost a decade, James Cowling learned a lot about how people think and work together, and he joins us today to share some of his insights. Joining this conversation, listeners will hear about James’ experience at t... | 48m 28s | ||||||
| 11/16/21 | ![]() Bryan Berg (Stripe) | Staff engineers may not get much time to code anymore, but this does not mean problem-solving and system design is not an integral part of their day-to-day. Today’s guest is Bryan Berg, Staff Engineer at Stripe, and he joins us to talk about the nuances of his position and his unique approach to the many challenges it entails. As a Staff Engineer, Bryan acts as Tech Lead of the Traffic team, and we begin our conversation by hearing about how he landed in this role. Bryan describes the ambiguo... | 50m 46s | ||||||
| 11/2/21 | ![]() Ben Ilegbodu (Stitch Fix) | Today we talk to Ben Ilegbodu, Principal Frontend Engineer at Stitch Fix, about how he manages to stay close to the code at a senior level. We hear how he arrived at Stitch Fix and what his first tasks were to identify the pain points in customer teams. From getting the IC's on his side to learning the importance of marketing your ideas to upper management, Ben talks us through his exciting career. He describes how he handles urgent tasks, and why it's crucial to do the important tasks first.... | 35m 52s | ||||||
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| 10/19/21 | ![]() Ashby Winch | Moving from an architect role to a product-oriented one might seem like a big leap, but there are overlaps between the two roles. Today's guest, Ashby Winch, has recently made this transition, and in today's episode, they share what this has been like. Up until recently, Ashby was an architect, with their most senior role at a large logistics operation in the U.K. Now, they have shifted to a product management job, and they are using the skills from the previous role for this new position. We... | 40m 15s | ||||||
| 10/5/21 | ![]() Josh Kaderlan (Lob) | Today’s guest is Josh Kaderlan, Staff Software Engineer at Lob, a direct mail and address verification API company that automates and simplifies direct mail and address verification, giving businesses greater flexibility, visibility, and accuracy of offline communications and data. There are so many different and non-traditional paths to becoming a staff engineer and, in today’s episode, you’ll hear a bit about Josh’s; starting in quality assurance, moving into development, and ultimately end... | 33m 44s | ||||||
| 9/21/21 | ![]() Ben Edmunds (Wayfair) | During today’s conversation, we speak with Ben Edmunds, Senior Staff Engineer at Wayfair. You’ll hear all about his role at Wayfair, from his day-to-day active projects and how he goes about setting OKRs to the legacy and new deploy tooling he uses, and the method he has adopted to guide engineers. Ben shares ample advice for young engineers and stresses the value of learning more than one coding language. He reveals the finer details of life at Wayfair and the tools he uses to make sure that... | 43m 46s | ||||||
| 9/7/21 | ![]() Nell Shamrell-Harrington (Microsoft) | Today’s guest is a principal software engineer at Microsoft who works at the interface between external and internal elements of the organization. Nell Shamrell-Harrington works on the ClearlyDefined open source project, which tracks open source licenses across open source ecosystems, and is also part of the Rust Foundation's Board of Directors. In today’s episode, you’ll hear about the “field commander” role that Nell plays in both of these organizations, and some of the major learnings they... | 42m 33s | ||||||
| 8/24/21 | ![]() Rich Lafferty (PagerDuty) | Oscillating between the roles of individual contributor and management has been a recurring theme on this show. Our guest today, Rich Lafferty, has some special insights into this pattern that can help anyone looking to improve their work. Rich works as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at PagerDuty and has spent many years interfacing with various departments and building projects and proposals. In our conversation with Rich, we discuss how his past roles have informed his work at PagerDuty ... | 49m 53s | ||||||
| 8/10/21 | ![]() Mason Jones (Credit Karma) | Credit Karma is a company that helps people understand their credit. Today’s guest, Mason Jones, was brought onto the Credit Karma team to move the company from a monolith to microservices. The company has grown almost four-fold since he joined, and Mason is now a senior staff engineer whose role swings from engineering to project management to technical writing, depending on the project he is working on. Prior to working at Credit Karma, Mason was involved in a number of small start-ups, and... | 45m 49s | ||||||
| 7/27/21 | ![]() Lorin Hochstein (Netflix) | Today’s conversation is about resilience, and as today’s guest, Lorin Hochstein, notes; “Resilience is about the stuff that isn’t visible through the metrics.” Lorin is a senior software engineer at Netflix who is on a mission to improve the company’s engineering department through creating a culture within which peer-to-peer learning and the process of reflecting on past mistakes are foundational. Lorin is responsible for the development of a few grassroots programs at Netflix which address ... | 48m 16s | ||||||
| 7/13/21 | ![]() Stacey Gammon (Elastic) | What works for a small company may not work for a large company, so what do you do when your organization experiences rapid growth, and the old way of doing things is no longer sustainable? In today’s episode, we speak with Stacey Gammon, a tech lead and Principal Software Engineer at Elastic. She has been with the company for almost five years and in that time has been able to observe firsthand the challenges that come with rapid growth in areas like scalability, communications, and project ... | 46m 18s | ||||||
| 6/29/21 | ![]() Will Larson (Calm) | Please note that this episode contains brief mention of suicide. Today's guest needs no introduction! Of course, they will get one anyway: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm and has worked at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He is also an author and has written two books, one of which is on Staff Engineering and serves as the inspiration for this podcast! In our conversation with Will, we discuss one of his earliest blog posts on a catastrophic launch at Digg and why he felt it was important to write ab... | 48m 45s | ||||||
| 6/15/21 | ![]() Mahdi Yusuf (1Password) | Today’s guest is Mahdi Yusuf, Tech Lead for the Server Architecture Team at 1Password. Our conversation is about what it means as well as what it takes to navigate the needs of the org, client, and staff in order to find the best path forward. We kick things off by hearing more about what Mahdi’s job at 1Password involves and he talks about the chief concerns and responsibilities of working on the platform code that the rest of the app is built on. Mahdi’s role specifically requires him to do... | 49m 54s | ||||||
| 6/1/21 | ![]() Amy Unger (GitHub) | Amy Unger, our guest on today’s show, is passionate about providing a high-quality service to the customers who use the products she is working on. Amy has a diverse skill set and an equally diverse set of tasks that she undertakes weekly for GitHub, and at the core of everything she does is her drive to provide value. Amy came into the for-profit space from the academic programming space, and she explains the different experiences she has had in these realms. We discuss what a tech lead role... | 36m 03s | ||||||
| 5/18/21 | ![]() Brian Lawler (Iterable) | Today we welcome Brian Lawler, who is a Principal Engineer at Iterable! Brian has a load of experience with software architecture, having worked in the space for over 25 years, at a number of different companies and amassing a large amount of wisdom and expertise in the process. The rise of Iterable stands as a testament to the great ethos and community at the company and Brian generously shares a lot of insider info on how the teams and processes work. We get to talk about his specific role ... | 45m 49s | ||||||
| 5/4/21 | ![]() Matthew Bilotti (Twitter) | On today’s episode of StaffEng, we speak with the formidable Matthew Bilotti who works as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Twitter and has been at the company for 11 years. Matthew currently leads a team that plays a critical role in user safety. Matthew has also taken on a key role when it comes to mentoring junior members at Twitter. In our conversation, Matthew talks about why he’s spent so many years at Twitter, his deep passion for teaching, and why the work his team does is invisible... | 49m 02s | ||||||
| 4/20/21 | ![]() Natalia Tepluhina (GitLab) | As today’s guest, Natalia Tepluhina walks us through her professional history and describes her experiences at GitLab. After getting to know Natalia a little better, we talk about the challenges she has faced as a staff engineer. We then get into what makes GitLab a documentation-first company. Natalia goes on to explain the inherent traits of being a documentation-first company, like practicing open-sourced work and documenting every step of your knowledge journey. As our conversation with N... | 54m 36s | ||||||
| 4/13/21 | ![]() Jam Leomi (Honeycomb) | Today we are joined by the inspiring Jam Leomi, who is currently the Lead Security Engineer at Honeycomb. Jam has worked in tech for over ten years, holding positions in both operations and security, and we get to hear about some important milestones in their journey thus far. Jam gives us some great insight into how things work for engineers at Honeycomb, talking about expectations and priorities, and the way they currently split their time between different parts of the job. We also discuss... | 31m 47s | ||||||
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