alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

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alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architecture, etc.) to management (e.g. scaling, structuring teams, mentoring, technical recruiting, product etc.). Guests from leading tech companies share their best practices and knowledge. The goal is to support other CTOs on their journey through tech and engineering, inspire and allow a sneak-peek into other successful companies to understand how they think and act. Get awesome insights into the world‘s top tech companies, personalities with this podcast brought to you by Tobias Schlottke.

  1. #112 - Cross Functional Team Members feat. Daniel Bartholomae // CTO @ optilyz

    1 DAY AGO

    #112 - Cross Functional Team Members feat. Daniel Bartholomae // CTO @ optilyz

    Find out about cross-functional team members with Daniel Bartholomae, CTO at optilyz (direct mail SaaS). At optilyz, team members wear multiple hats—whatever hats they need to own the product lifecycle. From product management and design to development and customer engagement, this model eliminates silos and drives efficiency. Daniel breaks down how this innovative approach works, the tools and processes that make it possible, and why it’s a perfect fit for small B2B SaaS companies. Listen to find out: 🚀 How ‘no product managers’ = efficient ‘sprints’ 🛠️ Why optilyz opts for Miro and Asana instead of Jira 🧩 How to find and hire the right people for cross-functional roles 📜 Architectural Decision Records (ADRs): How optilyz documents technical decisions Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/112-daniel-bartholomae-cto-optilyz

    49 min

  2. NOV 7

    #111 - Organising for Impact feat. Eric Bowman // CTO @ King

    How do we actually organize people to consistently deliver value and enjoy the process? This, Eric Bowman (CTO @ King) says, is the core challenge facing any CTO. In this thought-provoking episode, Eric shares insights from his remarkable career in gaming (The Sims, King), e-commerce (Zalando), and navigation technology (TomTom), offering a unique perspective on building high-performing teams and effective tech organizations. Listen in to explore: 🔄 Outcome AND Outputs → Impact (ala Kent Beck’s Universal Value Streams) 🤖 Theory of Adjacent Possibility + Why AI isn’t there yet ⚖️ Product + Tech: Single-threaded (Amazon) vs. Dual Role (Marty Cagan or Google) 🎯 Goals: Kanban-Style Stack Ranking that limits Work-in-Progress 📈 ROI of Tech: Does it increase revenue or speed up delivery? 🧘 Discipline = Action & Commitment + is it time to rethink small teams and platform engineering? Have a listen. Eric has such a great combination of great combination of experience 🦾, knowledge 📚 and wisdom 🧠. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/111-eric-bowman-cto-king

    56 min
  3. #110 - Developer Efficiency feat. Rebecca Murphey // Field CTO @ Swarmia & Co-Author of Build

    OCT 24

    #110 - Developer Efficiency feat. Rebecca Murphey // Field CTO @ Swarmia & Co-Author of Build

    Become a more effective team in this CTO podcast featuring Rebecca Murphey, Field CTO of Swarmia and co-author of Build. From her years of experience working in the developer productivity organizations at Stripe and Indeed and now at Swarmia, Rebecca knows this conversation isn’t just about developer metrics and productivity - it’s about the broader picture 🖼️. How do we align🧭 our engineering work with with business outcomes💸, developer experience 😀AND developer productivity⚡. And just as important, how do we communicate what we’re doing (and not doing) to other stakeholders? Listen to find out: 🔄 Queuing Theory as paradigm for developer workflow evaluation ⏳ How to allocate time for different engineering tasks 👥 Team Metrics vs. 🧑‍💻 Individual Metrics 📊 Metrics: DORA, SPACE, BRAINs, and more ⚖️ The ethical debate on tracking developer metrics 🤔 If you optimize for the quarter, do you de-optimize for the future? Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/110-rebecca-murphey-field-cto-swarmia-and-co-author-of-build

    53 min

  4. OCT 17

    #109 - Cloud Cost Optimisation feat. Claire Fautsch // CTO @ Joblift

    Save Money on Cloud Costs with Claire Fautsch (CTO @ Joblift). Find out how the team at Joblift slashed monthly cloud costs from €100K to €30K without compromising performance. Listen to find out: 📊 How to build dashboards 📈 How to align cloud costs with business KPIs 🤝 How to get the entire team involved in cost optimization (Spoiler Alert: No FinOps team) 🛠 How to optimize resource allocation and avoid over-provisioning ⚙️ Technical tweaks that made an impact: CUDs, Spot instances, SSD usage, network costs Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/109-claire-fautsch-cto-joblift Brought to you by SmartRecruiters -https://link.alphalist.com/smartrecruiters. Get 10% off when mentioning the alphalist CTO podcast

    39 min
  5. #108 - Monitoring as Code feat.Hannes Lenke // CEO & Co-founder @ Checkly

    SEP 30

    #108 - Monitoring as Code feat.Hannes Lenke // CEO & Co-founder @ Checkly

    Keep an eye on the latest trends in this CTO podcast episode featuring Hannes Lenke (CEO and Co-founder of Checkly). Hannes shares insights from over a decade of shaping the testing and monitoring landscape. From AI-powered mobile testing to cloud-based browser testing to synthetic monitoring, he has seen it all. Listen to found out: 👀 What is "Monitoring as Code"? How does it differ from traditional observability? 🔄 Has DevOps changed QA forever? Is there still a place for dedicated QA teams in an automated world? 🚀 How did Checkly evolve into a PLG company with a sales team? ⚙️ How do they run customer code at scale across 21 global data centers? Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/108-hannes-lenke-ceo-co-founder-checkly Brought to you by SmartRecruiters -https://link.alphalist.com/smartrecruiters. Get 10% off when mention the alphalist CTO podcast

    1h 3m
  6. #107 - Sustainability Over Hypergrowth feat.Tuomas Artman // CTO @ Linear

    SEP 13

    #107 - Sustainability Over Hypergrowth feat.Tuomas Artman // CTO @ Linear

    Grow the business, not the headcount with insights from Tuomas Artman (CTO of Linear). Saying no to hypergrowth helped Linear succeed, but how did they do it? How did they build a high-quality product with a smaller team? Listen to find out: - How to achieve quality products without increasing headcount 🌱 - Avoiding feature bloat: The pitfalls of customer-driven development ⚖️ - Why you should build for longevity, not acquisition: The downsides of selling too early 🏛 - Why they raised funds after initially planning to bootstrap 💰 - Why Full-Stack Engineers are in 👍, and QA Teams are out 👎 - Why Linear avoids automated UI tests 🚦 - How a local-first synchronization engine ensures a smooth UX ⚙️

    1h 1m

  7. AUG 30

    #106 - Meritocracy, Backend and Engineer-led Sales feat. Shyam Sankar // CTO @ Palantir Technologies

    Discover new ways to do things with Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, who is working to deprecate backend development using their experience with 150 independent dev teams running a collection of 5,000 microservices. Yet this podcast is more than that (although I was blown away by the demo)—expect great nuggets of wisdom on meritocracy, data, and of course, backend. Think of this podcast as a series of back-to-back nuggets of wisdom that not only help you make sense of what you've observed but also open your mind to emerging trends. Listen to find out 👨‍🍳 How French Restaurants Inspired Engineer-led Sales ⚖️ Finding Success in Contradicting Ideas 🧑‍💻 The Two Types of Engineers: Artists 🎨 vs. Hackers 🔧 🏗️ How he is working on deprecating backend development 📊 Why data is only as good as the decisions it guides and actualizes 📚 The Power of Ontologies 🧩 Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning 🌈 Diversity in meritocracy through acts of rebellion 💥 ℹ️ Why you need to reduce information asymmetry +🤖 Like Analog to Digital: How LLMs will change things

    49 min

  8. AUG 16

    #105 - Trust & Accountability in Remote Teams feat. Sabrina Farmer // CTO @ GitLab

    Find out how to build trust and accountability in a fully remote team in this CTO podcast featuring Sabrina Farmer, CTO @ GitLab. You will also hear how Sabrina draws on her experience in AI, DevSecOps, and her 19 years at Google to rethink the developer experience. Listen to find out: - How Gitlab's CEO Challenge encourages developers to innovate and automate away historic challenges (e.g. Log4js) = Why DevOps is just problem-solving 🕵️‍♀️ at all levels of the stack - How to use AI to create teaching moments 💡 in the developer workflow - How GitLab onboards quicker with detailed documentation📝 (no tribal knowledge)

    51 min
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This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architecture, etc.) to management (e.g. scaling, structuring teams, mentoring, technical recruiting, product etc.). Guests from leading tech companies share their best practices and knowledge. The goal is to support other CTOs on their journey through tech and engineering, inspire and allow a sneak-peek into other successful companies to understand how they think and act. Get awesome insights into the world‘s top tech companies, personalities with this podcast brought to you by Tobias Schlottke.

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