The Hallway Track

Your job was never to write software. Matt Brown , CTO at Opendate , has spent his career moving between 50-person startups and orgs the size of Salesforce, and what he's learned is that engineering value has always lived somewhere other than the code itself. AI just made that impossible to ignore. In this episode, Matt and Chris get into how influence and political capital work in inverse proport...

You've added the retros. The sprint gates. The review cycles. And somewhere along the way, your team stopped shipping and started managing the process you built to help them ship. Patrick Byrne , VP of Engineering at Dribbble , has spent over a decade running a top-1,000 site on a majestic Rails monolith with a lean team of six. He's lived every one of those cycles of process expansion and contrac...

Software engineering is getting weirder by the week. AI is reshaping how teams work, org structures are straining under the pressure, and the old playbooks don't quite fit anymore. The Hallway Track is a podcast for engineering leaders who are in the middle of all of it - CTOs, VPs, and managers at real companies, figuring it out in real time. Every other week, I’ll be sitting down with the people...