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Migrations done right: Success stories & lessons learned | Fernando Cristiani | LeadDev Berlin 2025

High-performance tech talent: Build, don’t buy! | Daniel Wagner-Hall | LeadDev Berlin 2025

The joy of being wrong | Emma Bostian | LeadDev Berlin 2025

Your career isn’t stuck – you’re playing by the wrong rules | Limor Bergman Gross | LeadDev Berlin

Why your greatest strengths are your next blind spots | Humera Noor | LeadDev Berlin 2025

Supply chain: Data infrastructure pipeline | Jinal Hitesh Mehta | LeadDev New York 2025

Engineering leadership in 2025: Thriving when budgets shrink | James Barnes | LeadDev Berlin 2025

The podcast addresses how engineering leaders can help their teams thrive amidst tight budgets and rising expectations. It emphasizes shifting the perception of engineering from a cost center to a profit center by focusing on value and impact. James Barnes outlines five principles: prioritizing focus over speed by alig...

Scaling LinkedIn’s search infrastructure | Rahul Raja | StaffPlus New York 2025

LinkedIn's search infrastructure evolution from a legacy system to a hosted search solution is discussed. The legacy search, utilizing SEAS and Galeen, presented operational complexities due to its custom search solutions tailored to specific applications, leading to tight coupling of platform and application logic. Th...

Developing and supporting 12 SDKs with a team of three | *Leo Romanovsky | LeadDev New York 2025

Leo Romanovsky, a staff engineer at Datadog and former engineer at Eppo, details the architectural transformation of an A-B experimentation platform that managed 12 different SDKs with only three engineers. The initial model of manual, language-specific development led to unsustainable repetition, inconsistent feature ...

Scaling AI for high-stakes, real-time payments | Prasad Wangikar | StaffPlus New York 2025

Prasad Wangikar discusses how Stripe uses AI to enhance payment processing, focusing on making payments safer, faster, and more efficient. He highlights AI's role in optimizing the checkout experience, minimizing unnecessary authentication challenges, and providing fraud protection through Radar, which has reduced disp...

From prompt to production | Aloke Desai | LeadDev New York 2025

How games engineering “embraced hard mode” to unlock innovation for Netflix games | Bruce Wang

Target architecture – Align. Execute. Deliver. | Diane-Lee Pretorius | LeadDev Berlin 2025

Compiler makeover: How tech debt created happier developers | Sameera Jayasoma | StaffPlus NY 2025

From hallucinations to hard truths | Rashi Agrawal | LeadDev New York 2025

What if I don’t want to climb? | Saman Jafari | LeadDev Berlin 2025

Reimagining the image pipeline at Squarespace | Wenshuo Liu & Arnaud Lawson | StaffPlus NY 2025

A reality check on AI’s impact on business transformation | Dilip Krishna | LeadDev New York 2025

Journeys in diversity – what difference really means | Clare Sudbery | LeadDev Berlin 2025

AI won’t fix developer productivity (unless you fix context first) | Peter Werry | StaffPlus NY 2025