
Ryan Peterman
Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-software engineer at Instagram You can find me @ryanlpeterman everywhere (Instagram, Twitter/X, Threads, Linkedin)
Episodes


Co-Creator of Kubernetes: Is a PhD Worth It & Career Reflections | Brendan Burns

Amazon VP: Questions On Corporate Politics But They Get Increasingly Darker | Ethan Evans
Corporate politics and soft skills serve as essential tools for career advancement in the tech industry, where promotions often depend more on visibility and relationship management than on objective performance metrics. To secure credit for collaborative work, professionals should speak first, provide "color commentar...

Distinguished Eng: Why You Shouldn’t Goal On Promotions | Bryan Cantrill

Creator of Scala: How AI Will Impact Programming Languages | Martin Odersky

OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9): The Psychology Behind Tech Career Peaks | Philip Su

Creator of Scala: Rust, Zig, Python vs Scala | Martin Odersky

Update on Quitting My Job at Meta

Creator of Postgres (Turing Award): "One Size Fits None", Leveraging GPUs, Difficult Implementations

Casey Muratori: Surprises In Computer History And Where Bad Code Comes From

Creator of TypeScript: Why We Chose Go For Our Rewrite | Anders Hejlsberg

Creator of TypeScript & C#: AI Software Engineering Predictions | Anders Hejlsberg

How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar

Creator of Lua: Top 3 Languages Every Engineer Should Learn in 2026 | Roberto Ierusalimschy

Creator of Lua: You Can Interpret C And Compile Python | Roberto Ierusalimschy

Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky

Sergey Levine: Humanoid Robotics Results, Chinese Labs & Future Timelines
Humanoid robotics is transitioning from specialized, hand-designed controllers to general-purpose foundation models, mirroring the scaling success seen in large language models. While the industry currently focuses on establishing fundamental technologies rather than predictable scaling, the path to deployment relies o...

Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg

Creator of Lean: Handwritten Math Will Change Dramatically | Leonardo de Moura

Creator of Lua: What People Get Wrong About Scripting Languages | Roberto Ierusalimschy
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