alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

How to scale an Engineering Team and more I spoke to Christian Hardenberg, CTO of Delivery Hero 🍔 and formerly Rocket Internet 🚀 on how to scale an engineering org from 200 to 2000 people. Delivery Hero just entered the DAX a week ago and is worth almost 20 BN as of today. He shared his perspective and thoughts on: How to measure software developers at scale How they keep up the pace / velocity What he thinks about OKRs How they manage to integrate all the acquired entities and teams Their secret sauce and why he thinks it is better than Google

This time, I have the honor to talk to Peter Grosskopf, CTO of Börse Stuttgart digital exchange and former CTO of Solarisbank. He's an amazing guy for philosophical discussions around finance, tech and we share one love that is no longer as cool as it was in the 00's: Ruby on rails! This time we discuss:1 How he made regulations his hobby 👓 and wants developers to feel like working for Spotify or Soundcloud even with regulations in place The do's and don'ts in Fintech Why he rather picks mature stacks (aka Postgres and Ruby on rails) against the "new kids on the block" How he thinks about new things tech like Apache Kafka

How to scale a SaaS product I had the chance to interview Sergei Anikin about how to scale a SaaS product. Sergei Anikin comes with vast experience in “large scale tech” as he was with Skype when it was sold 3 times (eBay, Private Equity, Microsoft) and is CTO at 90-million funded Pipedrive (CRM SaaS) now. Laser-sharp focus on the essential features “Scaling problems are good problems to have” Microservices vs. Monoliths Team structure at scale: Missions and Tribes How they do M&A and post merger integration

I had to deal with cybersecurity topics recently; I've even been in touch with the FBI 👮. On this occasion I invited a brilliant guest for the alphalist Podcast: It’s Mikko Hyppönen, a computer security specialist and scientific director at the security company F-Secure. He spent half of his life hacking and chasing hackers and he knows how to talk about it: I saw at least 3 TED Talks by him and yes, they are very entertaining and helpful. Key topics in the Podcast are: The recent Twitter hack and the stupidness of the hackers How cybersecurity evolved and became a required skill for companies and countries His recommendations for modern mid sized companies around Cybersecurity (Where to start with processes, recruiting, tools, budgets) What to do if you’ve been compromised

AI and software world, Stanford vs. TU-Munich, Udacity\ and why Germany is a Car Nation He is a Stanford professor, founder of Google X, built the first self driving car, won the Darpa-Award for it, started the online-academy Udacity and is now building autonomous planes at Kitty Hawk. Wow. Can you tell why I highly admire him and how excited I was when I won him for my podcast? We talked about the car nation in Germany, how competitive we are in the AI and software world, Stanford vs. TU-Munich, why Sebastian is striving for a brain-computer interface, why he has built the leading online university Udacity and how to tackle machine learning as a modern CTO. He also explains why he eventually comes up with a Bluetooth-connected Smart-Bra next.

Daniel Gebler, the CTO of Picnic, discusses building an app-only E-Commerce platform. They talk about Picnic's secret sauce in data science, supply chain, and fulfillment. They also cover the company's explosive growth during the pandemic and Daniel's thoughts on Microservices.

In dieser Ausgabe begrüssen wir Jan Ramm, den CTO der FreeNow Gruppe (ehem. MyTaxi). Wir sprechen unter anderem - von seinem Werdegang vom Schulschwimmer zum CTO - wie und wo FreeNow seine Entwickler sucht & findet - wie sich der Mobility Markt entwickelt hat und noch entwickelt - was sein Blick auf Mobile-Frameworks ala Flutter ist.

Stephan Schulze, VC discusses VC due diligence and its influence on technology in startups. They also talk about frameworks, tools, languages, trends, and processes in Project A Startups. Focuses on the technical due diligence and the quality check performed by Schulze as a VC for all startups.

In der heutigen Folge spreche ich mit Sebastian Betz, dem CO-CEO und CTO von About You über technologische Trends, Frameworks und aktuelle Hypes sowie seinen Job als CTO und wie der Tech Stack von about you unter der Motorhaube aussieht.