alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders
Tobias Schlottke - alphalist CTO Podcast
This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architectur...
#116 - Exploring Platform Engineering feat. Camille Fournier // CTO @ Open Athena & Author @ O'Reilly Media
How do you create an effective platform team and optimize DevOps? Tobi interviews Camille Fournier about her career, technical insights, and best practices in platform engineering. Camille shares her journey from building her own computers and installing Linux in high school to becoming Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase and authoring influential books for engineers 📚.
👩💻 Camille's early fascination with computers and engineering, including building her own systems and installing Linux
📚 Authoring 'The Manager's Path' and 'Platform Engineering'
🌐 Understanding platform engineering and its evolution from DevOps
🚀 Challenges and strategies in platform engineering for larger companies
💡 Key advice for CTOs on starting and managing successful platform teams
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115 - Exploring Growth and Compliance feat. Dennis Winter // CTO @ Börse Stuttgart
Ever wondered how regulated companies like stock exchanges handle tech growth? Dennis Winter (CTO @ Börse Stuttgart) shares how to build engineering organizations in regulated environments. With experience from embedded systems to leading tech at SolarisBank and Börse Stuttgart, he dives deep into scaling teams while maintaining security and compliance standards 🏦
🏗️ Early-stage tech decisions and building engineering culture
🔄 Evolving team structures and processes as you scale beyond 50 employees
🔐 Security and compliance in regulated environments
🛠️ Infrastructure automation and the importance of early monitoring
🤝 Building team ownership and accountability in regulated companies
⚡️ Role-based access management and device policies
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#114 - Building an SDK feat. Dr. Daniel Hauschildt // CPTO @ IMG.LY
Get insight into the SDK business (and learn about cross-platform performance and developer marketing) with Dr. Daniel Hauschildt (MD & CPTO at IMG.LY). As a client-side offering (no servers!), IMG.LY needs to take extra steps to ensure reliability on all devices 📱, platforms 💻 and browsers 🌐. From crafting developer-friendly documentation to optimizing performance on every device and platform imaginable, Daniel shares hard-earned insights from the SDK business.
👨💻What makes an SDK truly developer-friendly? 🤔
📜Documentation: The secret sauce of INBOUND developer marketing
🔌 API Design: Beauty of purpose-driven entry points
🧩How they build for the future with modular design
🐙 Cross-platform support: Native vs. cross-platform frameworks (React, Flutter etc.)
⚙️Why they focus on algorithm optimization over compute optimisation
Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/114-daniel-hauschildt-cpto-imgly
Plan and PRACTICE for better incident response with insights from Tim Armandpour, CTO of PagerDuty. Learn the secrets to resilience from the team that mitigated the impact of a major outage—handling a 250% traffic surge while delivering on their SLA.
Listen to find out:
- 🛠️ Why planning AND practice are both critical for incident response.
- 🚧 How to practice for incident response (e.g Failure Fridays with Chaos Engineering)
- 🧑🤝🧑 Ownership: Why tech AND business teams must join post-mortems.
- ☁️ How to mitigate the impact of your cloud provider’s lower SLA.
- ⚓ Which architectural patterns are more resilient?
- ⚖️ WARNING: “bend” the CAP theorem at your own risk
Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/113-tim-armandpour-cto-pagerduty
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#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
Om 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.
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