
Geeks Who Lead Podcast
Hear the inside stories of the "geeks who lead at scale" - Directors, VPs and CTOs running software engineering orgs at larger companies with 100+ engineers, and interviews with domain experts who can help those leaders to manage their engineering orgs more effectively.
I'm your host - Peter Bell, I've been helping senior engineering leaders to connect with and learn from their peers since 2010!
This podcast is designed for engineering leaders who want to learn the latest good practices from their peers who are way too busy operating to write an article or publish a book!
Running a software engineering org at scale is hard! You need to manage stakeholder expectations, attract and retain top talent, align and structure your org effectively and keep up with the latest processes and tooling. And that's before we even try to make sense of the potential impact of LLMs and GenAI on managing technical teams.
Our podcast and weekly newsletter provide you with access to hard-won wisdom from top engineering leaders and relevant domain experts. Learn more at https://geekswholead.com/
Episodes
Performance Management at Indeed

Allison McMillan - Making offsites meaningful

Paul Zhang - Town halls - influence at scale

Aviv Ben-Yosef - Accelerating Developer Growth

Rukmini Reddy - Leading with Empathy During Change

Kit Colbert - From intern to CTO - lessons learned

Jeremiah Stone - Choosing the right level of abstraction

Josh Builder - Creating a compelling engineering brand

Albert Wenger - Preparing for LLMs

Raji Subramanian - The three stages of value creation

Yoav Grossman - Adding LLMs to your product - a case study

Mike Boufford - Creating an AI Strategy

Gayatri Iyengar - The Art of Storytelling for Managing Stakeholder Relationships

James Turnbull - Trimming your operating costs

Mona Soni - Why the grand hybrid experiment is going to fail!

Matt Welsh - LLMs for engineering teams - a practical guide

Mission Driven - Josh Nesbit: Founding Member, Widespread Care

Mission Driven - Jim O’Leary: VP of Engineering, Signal

Mission Driven - Sam Quigley: CEO, Kicho Inc

Mission Driven - Max Roser: Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data

Peter Bell - Refocusing the business and the podcast

Mission Driven - Laura Edelson: Postdoctoral Researcher / Co-Founder, NYU / Cyber Security for Democracy Project

Jason Wodicka - Interviewing for culture

Mission Driven - Fred Diego: Co-Founder & CTO, Streetwide

Jason Wodicka - Building a structured interview process
