Level-up Engineering

By Apex Lab

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Level-up Engineering reveals actionable management secrets from some of the most successful engineering leaders (VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, CTO). This podcast brings you key insights from fellow engineering managers, to level-up your management skills and to take your software development team to the next level. The podcast covers the biggest challenges engineering leaders face, showing exactly how others overcame these challenges. Learn the best practices on management and leadership to understand people and organizations as much as you understand code. We interview engineering leaders and dive into the fundamentals behind hiring and retaining developers, motivating developers, scaling dev teams, mentoring developers, and much more! The episodes are brought to you by Apex Lab, a digital product development agency offering end-to-end, stress-free product delivery. Check them out on https://www.apexlab.io/ If you have any feedback or would like to be featured on Level-up Engineering please, drop us a line at podcast@apexlab.io

Episode Date
Core Engineering Principles for Customer-Centric Design
Apr 17, 2024
We’ve Adopted Modern Practices, Why isn’t Product Development Great yet? - Challenges in Product Development
Mar 13, 2024
Behind the scenes of a successful mentoring program - Mentoring tips for tech leaders
Feb 07, 2024
Leave Toxic Work Environments in 2023: Spotting and Fixing Unhealthy Work Cultures
Jan 24, 2024
Implementing Agile in Big Corporations - Proven Tips from Salesforce
Jan 10, 2024
Open Source Stories: How OSS Developers and Communities Shape the Future of Software Engineering
Dec 13, 2023
How to be a Great Leader and Manager: Strategies to Improve your Team - and their Results
Nov 29, 2023
From IC to CEO: Software Engineer Career Development
Nov 15, 2023
AI Deployment 101: The Considerations of Safely Deploying AI in the Enterprise
Nov 01, 2023
Communicating Your Engineering Team’s Impact at Work - Tips for Leaders
Oct 18, 2023
Open source advocacy: The benefits of open source software
Oct 11, 2023
Books for software engineers: Nature-inspired ways to scale software delivery
Sep 27, 2023
Managing Workplace Stress via Breathing Techniques
Apr 12, 2023
Building and Running Teams That Prioritize Innovation
Mar 08, 2023
The Ultimate Guide to Building Successful Analytics Engineering Teams
Feb 15, 2023
How to Prevent Quiet Quitting - Setting Healthy Boundaries at Work
Feb 01, 2023
How to Deal With Information Overload - A Leader’s Guide to Managing Communications
Jan 11, 2023
Process Management 101: The Secrets of Efficient and Engaging Processes
Nov 30, 2022
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time - A Leader’s Guide to Energy Management
Nov 09, 2022
How to Choose the Right Tech Stack - A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation
Oct 26, 2022
The Ultimate Guide to Building High-Performance Teams in Tech
Oct 12, 2022
How to Start a DAO in the DeFi Space - Building 1inch Network
Sep 29, 2022
Leadership Stories from Blockdaemon, the Top Blockchain Infrastructure Scaleup
Sep 14, 2022
The Manager’s Role in Engineer Coaching and Career Development
Aug 31, 2022
OKR Performance Management for Value-Driven Teams - Case Study from EA Games
Aug 17, 2022
Guide to Building Cross-Functional Collaboration In Software Engineering
Aug 03, 2022
Screw SCRUM: Guide to Building a Truly Agile Organization
Jul 20, 2022
The Secret to Productive IT Audits: Master the Process
Jul 06, 2022
How to Manage Culture Change in the Workplace as Your Team Grows
Jun 22, 2022
Engineering Management Trends 2022
Jun 08, 2022
How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation
May 25, 2022
Behind the Scenes of Building a Star Wars FPS - Video Game Engineering Stories
May 11, 2022
Platform Engineering 101: Takeaways from Building Internal Tools at HubSpot
Apr 27, 2022
Top Methods for Building Trust in Virtual Teams
Apr 13, 2022
Software Engineering Ethics Manifesto by Uncle Bob Martin
Mar 30, 2022
Guide to Improve Organizational Decision Making: Restructuring Foursquare
Mar 16, 2022
Customer Obsession in Action - Case Study from Mailchimp
Mar 02, 2022
From Manager to Director: Guide to Managing Managers
Feb 16, 2022
How to Lead with Empathy in a Remote Environment
Feb 02, 2022
The Ultimate Guide to Prepare Your Team to Scale
Jan 19, 2022
Principles of Decision Making: User’s Manual to Leadership
Jan 05, 2022
Guide to Leadership and Work-Life Balance for You and Your Team
Dec 15, 2021
The Secrets of Productive Virtual Offsites - Tips from GitHub
Dec 01, 2021
Scaling Your Leadership with Your Company: Case Study from Prezi
Nov 17, 2021
Managing Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering?
Nov 03, 2021
The Importance of Writing in Software Engineering
Oct 20, 2021
Leadership and Systems Thinking: Clear Sight for Complex Decisions
Oct 06, 2021
Scaling your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt
Sep 22, 2021
Creating an Internship Program for Software Engineers - Case Study from Redbubble
Sep 08, 2021
Performance Review: Build Your Process and Master Feedback Delivery
Aug 25, 2021
How to Engage Remote Employees: Tips to Lead Distributed Teams
Aug 04, 2021
Leadership Stories from Slack by Michael Lopp
Jul 14, 2021
How to Hire Entrepreneurial Engineers and Why You Need Them
Jun 30, 2021
How to Keep Remote Meetings Productive and Your Schedule Under Control
Jun 16, 2021
Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games
Jun 02, 2021
Software Development Trends 2021
May 19, 2021
Managing Hybrid Teams: How to Keep Your Team Engaged and Productive
Apr 28, 2021
Leadership in Hypergrowth: A Case Study from Shapr3D
Mar 31, 2021
From Engineer to CEO: How to Start a Tech Company
Mar 17, 2021
Leadership Soft Skills: Master Your Own Mind to Lead Your Team to Success
Feb 17, 2021
Remote Onboarding: How to Save New Hires from Social Isolation
Feb 03, 2021
Improve Team Performance and Turn Around Underachieving Engineering Teams
Jan 20, 2021
Knowledge Sharing: A Sneak Peek into Facebook’s Engineering Teams
Jan 06, 2021
The Ultimate Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders
Dec 09, 2020
Managing for Happiness: Tips to Run a Productive Engineering Team
Nov 25, 2020
Software Engineer Resume: Tips to Get in the Door at Hot Tech Companies
Nov 11, 2020
How to Make the Spotify Model Work for You - Hint: Don’t Copy Blindly
Oct 28, 2020
Software Engineer Career Ladder: Don’t Copy-Paste, Make Your Own!
Oct 14, 2020
Diversity in Recruiting: Road to Inclusion in Tech
Sep 30, 2020
From Junior to Senior Developer and Beyond: Farhan Thawar (VP of Engineering, Shopify)
Sep 16, 2020
GitHub's Feedback Culture: Ryan Nystrom (Director of Engineering, GitHub)
Sep 02, 2020
One-on-One Meeting Guide: James Stanier (SVP of Engineering, Brandwatch)
Aug 19, 2020
HubSpot's Secret for Onboarding Engineering Leaders: Nadia Alramli (Engineering Director, HubSpot)
Aug 05, 2020
Antifragile - Manage Your Team Under Pressure: Adam Wolff (VP of Engineering, Robinhood)
Jul 22, 2020
Engineering Leadership 101: Michael Lopp aka "Rands"
Jul 08, 2020
Build Your Employer Brand In Engineering: Sarah Wells (Technical Director, Financial Times)
Jun 24, 2020
Time Management Masterclass for Engineering Managers: Matt Martin (CEO, Clockwise)
Jun 10, 2020
How to Create a Culture Document: Rob Volk (CEO, Foxbox Digital)
May 27, 2020
3 Leadership Styles for a Productive Engineering Team: Shawn Fair (Leadership Coach, CEO, Fair Consulting Group)
May 20, 2020
Social Engineering: Olivia Liddell (Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services)
May 13, 2020
Leading vs Managing: András Fincza (VP of Engineering at Emarsys)
Apr 29, 2020
Clean Code for Managers: Robert C. Martin, a.k.a. Uncle Bob
Apr 22, 2020
Transition from Engineer to Manager: Jeff Perry, Engineering Leadership Coach
Apr 15, 2020
Software Development Trends 2020: Camille Fournier and Juan Pablo Buriticá
Apr 01, 2020
First 100 Days as an Engineering Leader: Steven McCord (SVP of Technology at WhyHotel)
Mar 18, 2020
Engineering Culture: Sally Lait (Senior Engineering Manager at Monzo)
Mar 04, 2020
Recruiting Engineers: Greg Sabo (Engineering Manager at Asana)
Feb 19, 2020
Handling Conflicts, Giving Feedback: Tom Bartel (Engineering Manager at Trivago)
Feb 05, 2020
Engineering Productivity: Camille Fournier (Managing Director at Two Sigma)
Jan 22, 2020
Scaling Distributed Engineering Team: Juan Pablo Buriticá (ex-VP of Engineering at Splice)
Jan 07, 2020
Managing Distributed Developer Teams: Tim Olshansky (VP of Engineering at Zenput)
Dec 17, 2019
Training Engineering Managers: Matt Greenberg (CTO at Reforge, ex-VPE at Credit Karma)
Dec 04, 2019
Creating Psychological Safety: Dan Rummel (Senior Director of Engineering at One Medical)
Oct 29, 2019
Managing Remote Teams: Katie Womersley (VP of Engineering at Buffer)
Oct 03, 2019
Mentoring Developers: Gergely Orosz (Engineering Manager at Uber)
Sep 30, 2019
Scaling Developer Teams: Rich Archbold (Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom)
Sep 30, 2019