Map for Engineers Podcast

Dario from Amp and I sit together to explore what comes after the "coding agent" era — verifiability as the new bottleneck, rethinking the testing pyramid, persistent dev environments in the cloud, stateful actors, single-tenant deployments, and the future of product interfaces in a world of agents. If you are building serious production-grade software with agents and trying to make sense of where...

With AI, great product engineering is relevant more than ever. Anton Keks and I sit together again to explore the real question: what does it mean to be an engineer now, in today's AI world? In this round 2 conversation, we talk about the shift from coding to thinking — from generating output to making decisions. Because AI doesn’t remove the need for engineering fundamentals; it amplifies the cos...

Alvar Lumberg needs no introduction in Estonia in startup circles: Alvar is a seasoned engineering leader who built Wise from the early days, then founded Grünfin, and now is transforming investing at Lightyear. We chatted with Alvar on his engineering journey, and discussed ideas on product engineering, building startups, and building great teams. Here is what we talked about: 00:00:00 - Intro 00...

In this episode, we sit down with veteran designer Janne Kaasalainen for an in-depth discussion on the art and science of UX design. 00:00:05 - Intro 00:00:35 - Janne's introduction 00:01:12 - Janne's career start and moving to UX 00:03:37 - Pivotal moments in Janne's career 00:06:40 - Misconceptions about design and UX 00:12:20 - How should engineers, designers, and PMs collaborate? 00:21:54 - Wo...

Carl and I talked deeply about CLI-based AI agents, specifically Claude Code, how CLI AI agents are more composable than IDE-based agents like Cursor, spec-driven development, making codebases agent-native, and, last but not least, which skills should we hone as software engineers, because our profession is not going anywhere, but we need to adapt. Super interesting conversation, hope you enjoy! O...

I really enjoyed this discussion. I hope you find some useful bits for yourself as well. Chapters are manually annotated by me for you to be able to navigate and jump around. Thanks for listening to Map for Engineers! 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:01 - Dmytro's background 00:13:50 - Early days of finance team in Wise 00:19:36 - Becoming lead in the finance team 00:21:19 - Squad o fteams, tribe of squads:...

Anton, co-founder of Codeborne, and I sit together to discuss some of the problems in software engineering - pull requests, microservices, testing, refactoring. Check out annotated chapters below for more details. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:00 Sneak peek 00:00:49 Episode overview 00:04:28 Anton's intro, background 00:06:37 Anton founded Codeborne: TDD and pair programming: following extreme programming...

Lauri Koobas, ex-Microsoft and currently Head of Data Platform at Bondora, shed insights on data engineering - from early startup to scaling. We mostly focused on analytics and building data warehouse - real-world challenges from both data engineering and software engineering sides. We also discussed GDPR and PII challenges when dealing with data. You can find video version on MapForEngineers YouT...

Carl, staff software engineer at Pactum, shed light on some of the latest AI tools in software development. We discussed v0.dev , continue.dev , ollama, and much more! It was an episode with a lot of useful information and insights! To check all content on Map For Engineers including blog posts, feel free to subscribe on https://MapForEngineers.com Annotated chapters in timeline on topics that Car...

I had a pleasure to chat with my friend Joel Mislav Kunst, who is Engineering Manager at Microsoft. We talked about growth in engineering. Some of the topics that we touched upon, with timeline timestamps are: 00:00:00 - Glimpse of episode 00:01:16 - Quick episode overview 00:05:18 - Joel's journey in software engineering 00:14:55 - Focus on engineering fundamentals 00:23:34 - Learning from all ha...

Ürgo, ex-Wise, joined Wise.com as one of the first 12 engineers or so. As former colleagues from Wise, we had a great chat about product engineering, domain-driven design, and team collaboration. I will give a short summary of key takeaways that I got from this valuable discussion with Ürgo. 1. Work in agency is different from work in a product company Work in agency (outsource) vs product company...

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