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)
Scaling engineering organizations requires balancing rapid headcount growth with bottom-up product discovery. During a period of massive investment in Facebook Groups, the organization expanded from 150 to over 600 engineers, driven by leadership's mandate to prioritize community-building. A central challenge involved ...
Fiona Fung, a senior director currently at Anthropic, shares insights from her extensive career at Microsoft and Meta, focusing on leadership, product development, and organizational culture. Effective engineering management requires balancing team health with aggressive project goals, particularly during high-pressure...
In this interview, Ryan Peterman interviews Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code and former Meta Principal Engineer, about his career, starting with his promotion to Senior Engineer at Meta for his work on the Chats and Groups project, which aimed to integrate Messenger and Facebook. Boris discusses the cultural differ...
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