Level-up Podcast

In the most recent episode of the Level Up podcast we spoke with Chad McElligott, Senior Staff Engineer at Smartrr. Chad covers how platform engineering plays a vital role in supporting developers and elevating an organization to the next level.

In the most recent episode of the Level Up podcast we spoke with James Turnbull, VP of Product and Engineering at Smartrr. James delves into the importance of seamless onboarding, the benefits of a turnkey experience to accelerate productivity, and how you should look at building out a Platform team.

In an insightful conversation with Thomas Squeo, Principal at Convergence Consulting Services, we explore the intricacies of managing large engineering orgs and developing a golden path that streamlines development and keeps teams aligned.

In our latest episode, we’re joined by Brandon Chu, an expert in scaling products and a former professional poker player. With years of hands-on experience, Brandon shares invaluable insights he’s acquired throughout his personal and professional journey.

This week, Zabrina Hossain, VP of Product Management at UScreen, shares insights into aligning product and engineering teams, how to improve focus and build what is important, and finding the balance between addressing tech debt and building new products.

In this week's episode, we're joined by Kyle Rockman, Platform Engineering Lead at OpsLevel, to discuss how companies can develop a framework to approach the build vs. buy decision.

On the latest episode of Level Up, we delve into developing top-notch software catalogs and their essential role in scaling engineering teams. Ezra Cohen, OpsLevel's first-ever Customer Success Manager, joined us to share his insights on this crucial aspect of software management and the good, bad and ugly of the catalogs he has seen.

This week, we’re joined by Shadi Rostami, the Senior and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Amplitude to discuss empowering your development teams in an environment where you will win or lose based on product quality.

Seth shares his experience leading Groupon's journey from monolith to microservices and the internal developer portal built during this migration. Seth provides an incredible overview of Groupon’s current success and how this portal has leveraged their scale-up journey. He dives into how ownership definitions and assignments have changed, the way that clean data has enabled more automation, and how they’ve used all of this to strengthen and clarify SLOs.

Elliot Graebert, Director of Engineering at Skydio, shares his insights and experiences in building teams at Palantir and the need to always tie your programs back to the needs of the business. Often, we can get caught up in the excitement of a project, but miss the larger picture. Which is why Elliot details the best ways to handle high and low performers, his strategy around developing new services and killing old ones and the struggles of trying to build an internal developer portal.