- Can we discuss a product you contributed to building, such as the Lithium platform? If there's another technically challenging and interesting topic you'd prefer, we can cover that as well.
- Discussion around - how does payment infrastructure operate at PayPal’s scale?
- While leading QuickBooks Online Advanced at Intuit, how did you maintain engineering quality and drive innovation as the team and tech stack scaled rapidly?
Pod Questions:
- Engineers often don’t know if their work is impacting business growth. I wanted to ask how do you align engineering decisions with business goals? Can you share a couple of examples from your experience?
- What skills or mindset shifts helped you transition from being an individual contributor to a successful engineering leader? / What technical or soft skills are most important for engineers to grow into leadership roles?
- What should tenured engineers focus on to stay relevant? Any thoughts on Zuck’s comments on replacing their mid-level engineers with AI?
- How can early engineers stand out in interviews and get noticed for roles at top companies like Atlassian? What’s your interview process like?
- From an engineering leader’s lens, what makes a great PM or designer?
- If you were starting your career today as an engineer, what would you do differently?
- What role does an engineer play in shaping product strategy, and how can engineers develop better product thinking?