Gergely Orosz

The Pragmatic Engineer

Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. Especially relevant for software engineers and engineering leaders: useful for those working in tech. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

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Gergely Orosz

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Technology

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Design-first software engineering: Craft – with Balint Orosz 05.03.2025

Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • The Software Engineer’s Guidebook : Written by me (Gergely) – now out in audio form as well • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — Not many people know that I have a brother: Balint Orosz . Balint is also in tech, but in many ways, is the opposite of me. While I prefer working on backe...

The man behind the Big Tech comics – with Manu Cornet 26.02.2025

Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform.  • Formation — Level up your career and compensation with Formation. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by a senior software engineer and cartoonist, Manu Cornet. Manu spent over a decade at Google , doing both backend and frontend developmen...

Developer productivity with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA, co-creator of SPACE) 19.02.2025

Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS • CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — How do you architect a live streaming system to deal with more load than it’s ever been done before? Today, we hear from an architect of such a system: Ashutosh Agrawal, formerly Chief Architect of...

Live streaming at world-record scale with Ashutosh Agrawal 12.02.2025

Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS • CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half • Augment Code — AI coding assistant that pro engineering teams love — How do you architect a live streaming system to deal with more load than it’s ever been done before? Today, we hear from an architect of such a system: Ashutosh Agrawal, formerly Chief Architect of...

AI Engineering with Chip Huyen 05.02.2025

Supported by Our Partners • Swarmia — The engineering intelligence platform for modern software organizations. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform.  • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Chip Huyen, a computer scientist, author of the freshly published O’Reilly book AI Engineering , and an exper...

Building a best-selling game with a tiny team – with Jonas Tyroller 29.01.2025

Supported by Our Partners • Formation — Level up your career and compensation with Formation.  • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Jonas Tyroller, one of the developers behind Thronefall , a minimalist indie strategy game that blends tower defense and kingd...

Observability: the present and future, with Charity Majors 22.01.2025

Supported by Our Partners • Sonar —  Trust your developers – verify your AI-generated code. • Vanta —Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — In today's episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I'm joined by Charity Majors, a well-known observability expert – as well as someone with strong and grounded opinions. Charity is the co-author of "Observability Engineering" and brings extensive...

“The Coding Machine” at Meta with Michael Novati 15.01.2025

Supported by Our Partners • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Michael Novati, Co-founder and CTO of Formation. Before launching Formation, Michael spent eight years at Meta, where he was recognized as the top code committer company-wide for several years....

Confessions of a Big Tech recruiter 08.01.2025

Supported by Our Partners • DX — DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers.  • Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I catch up with one of the best tech recruiters I’ve had the opportunity to work with: Blake Stockman, a former colleague of mine from Uber. Blake built a strong reputation in th...

Shipping projects at Big Tech with Sean Goedecke 18.12.2024

Supported by Our Partner DX ⁠ → DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub. Sean is widely known for his viral blog post, “How I ship projects at big tech companies.” In our conversation, he shares how to successfully deliver projects in large tech companie...

Notion: going native on iOS and Android 11.12.2024

Supported by Our Partner DX ⁠ → DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers — In today’s exciting episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by two members of the Notion mobile apps team, Austin Louden and Karn Saheb. Austin and Karn joined Notion in 2019 when Notion was revamping its mobile apps.  Notion is a versatile productivity and collaboration platform tha...

Software architecture with Grady Booch 04.12.2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images. • Chronosphere — The observability platform built for control. — Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer ! Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by Grady Booch, a true legend in software development. Grady is the Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM , whe...

Linear: move fast with little process (with first engineering manager Sabin Roman) 20.11.2024

Brought to you by: • Launch Darkly — a platform for high-velocity engineering teams to release, monitor, and optimize great software.  • Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images. • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. — On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by fellow Uber alum, Sabin Roman, now the first Engineering Manager at Linear ....

Promotions and tooling at Google (with Irina Stanescu, Ex-Google) 06.11.2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Sonar —  Trust your developers – verify your AI-generated code. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Irina Stanescu, a seasoned engineer with over 14 years in software engineering and engineering leadership roles at tech companies like Google and Uber. Now an engineering leadership coach, Irina help...

Twisting the rules of building software: Bending Spoons (the team behind Evernote) 23.10.2024

Brought to you by: • The Enterprise Ready Conference on October 30th — For B2B leaders building enterprise SaaS. • DX — DX is an engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers.  • ByteByteGo — Ace your next system design interview. — You may not be familiar with Bending Spoons, but I guarantee you’ve encountered some of their well-known products, like Evernote and Meetup. In tod...

Efficient scaleups in 2024 vs 2021: Sourcegraph (with CEO & Co-founder Quinn Slack) 09.10.2024

Brought to you by: • Paragon : ​​ Build native, customer-facing SaaS integrations 7x faster. • WorkOS : For B2B leaders building enterprise SaaS — On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer , I’m joined by Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a leading code search and intelligence platform. Quinn holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford and is deeply passionate about coding: t...

AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (co-creator of Django) 25.09.2024

The first episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast is out. Expect similar episodes every other Wednesday. You can add the podcast in your favorite podcast player, and have future episodes downloaded automatically. Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube . Brought to you by: • Codeium : ​​ Join the 700K+ developers using the IT-approved AI-powered code assistant. • TLDR : Keep up with tech in...

The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: Trailer 17.09.2024

Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast , hosted by Gergely Orosz, the author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter. In each episode, we dive deep into the world of software engineering, offering practical insights on scaling teams, engineering leadership, and navigating the evolving tech landscape. With industry veterans and successful engineers as guests, this podcast is perfect for anyone look...

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