Let's discuss toxic engineering cultures! Crazy deadlines, unpaid overtime, working on weekends, constant top down pressure, lack of clarity on a career path, no appreciation of good work, no transparency, etc. 😩   The list goes on! We’ve all been there and many of us are (sadly) still working in toxic environments.   In this live stream I want to talk to you about what it is like working in a healthy engineering culture, how to identify a toxic work environment, how to survive it and...

How far can you go as a self-taught software developer? I never graduated from University, in fact, I've never attended or been part of a graduation ceremony ever in my life. Yet here I am, working as a Senior Solution Architect at GitHub. Let's talk about higher education in tech.

Increasing the performance of your engineering teams while making sure you maintain a healthy and safe work environment is not easy! In this episode, I discuss with Lauren Peate, Founder and CEO of multitudes the key indicators of a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace and the impact of DE&I on engineering and product outcomes.

DevOps explained in a simple manner by Communities of Practice area Director at GitHub Jared Murrell. I've worked alongside Jared on numerous projects and it was a blast every time! This fireside chat is an attempt at demystifying DevOps / DevSecOps and separating the buzz and hype from the fundamentals.  I hope you enjoy this episode just as much as I did making it!

Alaa El Hariri is a Software Engineer at DataCamp where she develops features that allow Data Science enthusiasts and professionals build up and improve their data literacy.  She believes software development is an art form that anyone can learn, no matter their background, where they're from or who they identify as.   Alaa, has worked in several domains within software development, from healthcare to finance to education. She has volunteered with GDG Coast Lebanon and WTM Lebanon to...

Farbod Saraf is the product lead at Miro, an online collaborative whiteboard platform that has recently experienced a hyper growth from 3 million to 20 million users in only 15 months! He has a background in engineering and software development before making the switch to product management. I really like this fireside chat because it covers many super interesting aspects of product management within an organisation as well as the dynamics of product management and engineering!

In the fireside chat, I explore with Joe his perspective on engineering management and the qualities of a great manager. We also discuss how you could make the transition from engineering to management and what to expect. Joe has entered the tech world as a bit of a late bloomer. He was 20 years old when he took his first programming course in college and it peaked his interest. And it was 6 months later, when he installed his first Linux distro (Ubuntu Gusty Gibbons) on his laptop, he...

My guest today is Johannes Nicolai a principal solutions engineer at GitHub and an awesome colleague of mine. In this episode we chat about how the future of software engineering will look like. How we will be writing code in a decade from now and what will this domain look like in 30 years from today. We also chat about the meaning of innovation, and why we haven't seen a major paradigm shift in our industry for decades.   Johannes Nicolai is a long-time open source enthusiast and...