Some familiar voices on the podcast this week, as host Amanda Chaudhary talks with guests Parul Shukla and Jingwei Hao about what they're working on, challenges they face, and their growth. They talk about how to be strong leaders, good allies and what they would change in our industry if given the chance (or a magic wand).    Email your questions for Lyft Mobile Engineers to [email protected]. If you're interested in working with us, check out lyft.com/careers

Hosts RJ and Julio sit down with Ana to learn about the work she and her team are working on, what it's been like to onboard from Mexico City, and her career transition into programming, and the flexibility she likes about Android. Transcript Email your questions for Lyft Mobile Engineers to [email protected]. If you're interested in working with us, check out lyft.com/careers RJ on Instagram Julio on Twitter Ana on LinkedIn

This week, hosts RJ and Parul are joined by Quality Engineer Nik Arabadjiev to talk through QA processes at Lyft and how we've gotten better at things over time. Plus, Nik's description of the Bulgarian dish banitsa is going to make it the new sourdough.  Transcript Show Notes Email your questions for Lyft Mobile Engineers to [email protected]. If you're interested in working with us, check out lyft.com/careers RJ on Instagram Parul on LinkedIn Nik on LinkedIn

Aaaand we're back! On this episode, Adam, Ben, Brentley, and Keith get in the weeds on Bazel, and debate the market value of super powers, and we continue to battle with microphones while we record remotely. Transcript Show Notes Email your questions for Lyft Mobile Engineers to [email protected]. If you're interested in working with us, check out lyft.com/careers

We pick up where we left off in Part 1, discussing Lyft's mobile architecture, and our Flows and Plugins system. Join Adam, Amanda and Scott as they dive deep into the technical in this week's episode.   Transcript Show Notes Email your questions for Lyft Mobile Engineers to [email protected]. If you're interested in working with us, check out lyft.com/careers Adam on Twitter Amanda on Twitter Scott on Twitter 

Hosts Adam and Amanda dive into the history of ambitious mobile architecture projects through the last few years, and the rewards we’re reaping from those efforts now. Also, the team is kind of excited about React, and very excited about powdered donuts. We’ll be back with Part 2 in 3 weeks! Transcript Show Notes Email your questions for Lyft Mobile Engineers to [email protected]. If you're interested in working with us, check out lyft.com/careers

The first episode of 2021! Join Kevin Fang and Jeff Hurray as they describe the decision, benefits and challenges behind Server Driven UI work. Also: some controversy about laundry. 

Join Jingwei Hao as she describes her work building a system and culture around mobile fault injection and chaos testing. Plus, the team gets deep about meditation, and shallow about pumpkin pie. Transcript Lyft Mobile Podcast - 28 - Mobile Fault Injection with Jingwei Hao Show Notes: Email your questions for Lyft Mobile Engineers to [email protected]

Join Julio Carrettoni as he describes his full-circle journey around learning about testing at Lyft. Julio talks with Adam and Ben about a new face mask verification feature, how Lyft weaves testing into the developer workflow... With sometimes varying success. 

Join Yvonne Wong and Ryan Tempas as they discuss the creation of our Consumer and Driver App Platform teams. We talk through what a 'Platform' means at Lyft, what teams are working on, and how we approach parity between iOS and Android. Yvonne and Ryan share their offline productivity hacks! 

Join Corey Zanotti and James Paolantonio as they walk through the recent health and safety product features we’ve implemented to make our platform safer for our users: tight deadlines, all-hands-on-deck situations, remote collaboration, and optimal use of existing infrastructure. Also Dance Dance Revolution.

Kris Gellci joins Adam and Polly to discuss how we approached translating and localizing our apps, allowing Lyft to expand into new regions and provide better user experiences. We talk about Thomas Edison and creative problem solving. Also baby length.

Miguel Ángel Juárez López joins Adam and Ben to discuss Lyft's creative and committed approach to making our client apps resilient. We learn about Miguel's experience being a developer and people manager at the same time, and how to not get lost in the woods.

Tim Johnson joins Artem and Amanda to discuss how he has coped with working with teams in different timezones, his strategies for staying connected while remote, and a theoretical conversation about using Slack in space. 

Vladimir Tagakov joins Artem and RJ to get into the Android weeds on IDE, Dagger migrations, beating tech debt. Plus a bit of talk on unambitious time travel. 

Amanda Chaudhary joins Artem and Ben to talk through the efforts to keep the Lyft mobile org engaged and scaling effectively, and about Amanda's passion for music and technology

Xinran Wang joins Adam and Polly to talk about agile software development practices. Grooming, estimating using story points, and working cross-functionally. Also, whether it's safe to change size like Ant Man.

VP of Engineering Peter Morelli joins us to talk about how to grow a company, the optimal attributes in an engineer, and the value of being a polyglot. Also, not leaving meat out on the counter.

Thomas Ezan joins us to talk about the difference between creating features for the long-term vs. creating features to test new ideas. Other topics: how communication changes as your team grows, experimentation, and public speaking. Also: which apps can be deleted from your phone.

Chris Selin joins Adam and Polly to talk about what it was like as Lyft's team grew from 7 mobile developers up to 70. Topics include hackathons, managing long-running iOS feature development, xib vs. programmatic layout, and sustainability. Also, Chris's plans to time-travel possess Neil Armstrong for the week on the moon landing.

Ben Rhoads joins us to talk about what goes into building Self-driving vehicles. What special requirements mobile software has to take into account when building for Self-driving, the core components of an AV, and what the mechanical engineering development cycle is like. Also, robotic measuring arms.

Matt Klein joins Adam and Ben to talk about his role leading the Envoy Proxy project. We cover what a proxy is and why a proxy is needed, how Envoy got started and where it is today, open source, and leading technically as a high level IC. Also pickles. Too many pickles.

Artem joins Adam and Patrick to talk about improving the productivity of Lyft's Android developers. Topics include IntelliJ plugins, Gradle, Buck, Bazel, remote cache, remote execution, and open source. Also graffiti.

Lou Zell joins us to talk about using raw data to make the roads safer. Topics include wrangling large data streams, pros and cons of third party libraries, and deriving meaning from data using machine learning. Also shark attacks.