Abi Noda
Abi is the founder and CEO of DX (getdx.com), which helps engineering leaders measure and improve developer experience. Abi formerly founded Pull Panda, which was acquired by GitHub.
Appears in 64 Episodes
Inside Etsy’s multi-year DevEx initiative | Mike Fisher (Etsy, PayPal)
Mike Fisher, the former CTO at Etsy, spearheaded a multi-year developer experience initiative aimed at improving developer happiness and efficiency during his time at ...
Implementing a developer portal | Karl Haworth (American Airlines)
Karl’s team at American Airlines were early adopters of Backstage, and in this episode he shares their journey of implementing and rolling out a developer portal. He a...
Bringing the product management discipline to platform teams | Russ Nealis (Plaid)
As product lead, Russ Nealis has been focused on introducing the discipline of product management in the Developer Foundations organization. This episode discusses the...
Intercom’s approach to a great on-call experience | Brian Scanlan (Intercom)
In this deep-dive episode, Brian Scanlan, Principal Systems Engineer at Intercom, describes how the company’s on-call process works. He explains how the process starte...
How Instagram Reels manages reliability | Jack Li (Instagram, Shopify)
Jack Li explains how his production engineering team rolled out a new incident review process, how they’ve made the case for investing in reliability, and specific too...
A masterclass on DORA – research program, common pitfalls, and future direction | Nathen Harvey (Google)
Nathen Harvey explains how DORA has evolved in recent years, the common challenges companies face as they adopt DORA metrics, and where the program may be heading in t...
An inside look at the SPACE framework | Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey (co-author, SPACE)
Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey discusses what the SPACE framework is and how the metrics and categories were developed.
Spotify’s failed #SquadGoals | Jeremiah Lee (Spotify, Stripe)
What parts of the Spotify Squad Model were challenging, and advice for leadings considering adopting the model.
How much to invest in platform work | Jean-Michel Lemieux (Shopify, Atlassian)
Jean-Michel Lemieux shares his perspective on how much to invest in platform work, which projects to fund, and how to advocate for more resources.
Principles for driving adoption and platform team growth | Jonathan Biddle (Wayfair)
Jonathan Biddle, Director of Engineering Effectiveness at Wayfair, shares the story of how his team found repeat success and subsequently grew in size and scope. He sh...
Leading infrastructure change at scale | Ian White (DAT)
Ian White, Director of Platform Engineering at DAT, joined the company to scale their Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, which has come under stress as their busin...
Positioning platform work in a down market | Brian Guthrie (Orgspace, Meetup)
Brian Guthrie, co-founder and CTO at Orgspace and former VP of Engineering at Meetup, shares advice for Platform teams to make sure they’re well positioned within thei...
A deep-dive on real-time feedback and personalized surveys | Max Kanat-Alexander, Or Michael Berlowitz (LinkedIn)
Max Kanat-Alexander and Or Michael Berlowitz share how they gather both periodic and real-time feedback from developers.
How to define your team's scope and charter | Mark Côté (Shopify)
Mark Côté explains how Shopify's Infrastructure defined their charter and guiding principles, as well as how they decide what to focus on.
Dropbox's journey with developer productivity metrics | Utsav Shah (Vanta, Dropbox)
Utsav Shah shares the story of Dropbox’s journey with measuring developer productivity. Utsav discusses what he learned about both system and survey-based measures, hi...
Using customer interviews to inform your roadmap | Michael Galloway (Doma, Netflix)
Michael Galloway, who previously led delivery tools at Netflix and now leads platform at Doma, describes his process for interviewing developers to understand where to...
Establishing a DevEx team in a high-growth company | Willie Yao (Notion, Airbnb)
Willie Yao, Head of Infrastructure at Notion and former Head of Developer Infrastructure at Airbnb, provides a unique perspective on how Developer Experience teams wor...
A model for managing requests and complaints from developers | Jasmine James (Twitter)
Twitter’s Developer Experience team is more mature than most. Here, Jasmine James, a Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Experience, explains how her team manages s...
From DORA to SPACE to DX - A Fireside Chat with Nicole Forsgren
In this special episode, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, author of award-winning book Accelerate and co-author of "The SPACE of Developer Productivity", talks about her work with...
The people side of engineering and an open conversation about Agile | Brent Strange (GoDaddy)
Brent Strange, Director of Engineering Excellence at GoDaddy, has a unique perspective on the role of an internal enablement team because he focuses more on the people...
Moving Slack's development experience to remote environments | Sylvestor George (Slack)
Sylvestor George led a project to move Slack's entire development experience to remote environments, which was widely regarded as a “dramatically better experience”. H...
Snyk’s journey with developer experience and productivity | Crystal Hirschorn (Snyk)
In this episode Abi Noda is joined by Crystal Hirschorn, who leads Platform Infrastructure, SRE, and Developer Experience at Snyk. In their conversation, Crystal share...
Supporting 100,000 engineers | Max Pugliese (IBM)
Max Pugliese, formerly the Director of Developer Experience at IBM, offers a look at what it’s like to support tens of thousands of engineers. He explains why it’s imp...
The value of having a PM on a platform team | Jelmer Borst (Picnic Technologies)
In this episode Abi speaks with Jelmer Borst, Product Manager for Picnic Technologies’ Platform group. Jelmer explains what the value is of having a PM in an internal-...
Common pitfalls in adopting engineering metrics | Mojtaba Hosseini (Zapier)
In this interview, Mojtaba Hosseini (Director of Engineering at Zapier) talks about how to approach using metrics, pitfalls teams run into, and the common evolution te...
Advocating for the voice of the developer | Julio Santana (Workday)
Julio Santana from Workday shares how he thinks about the ideal scope of a Developer Experience team, getting buy-in for DX initiatives, how his team gathers feedback ...
Why founding a DevEx team is like starting a startup | Minh Pham, Titus Stone (Ibotta)
In this episode we’re joined by Minh Pham and Titus Stone from Ibotta’s Developer Experience team. You’ll hear their story about how the DX team came into existence, w...
The ultimate guide on Engineering Operations | Ryan Atkins (Asana, Stripe, Dropbox)
In this episode Abi Noda speaks with Ryan Atkins, Asana’s Head of Engineering Operations. They talk about the role of EngOps and when it’s needed, founding an EngOps t...
Staffing infrastructure teams | Will Larson (Calm, Stripe, Uber)
Will Larson, the CTO at Calm, covers a wide range of topics including whether Infrastructure Engineering is chronically understaffed, the role of Eng Ops, how his opin...
Supporting autonomous teams | Victoria Morgan-Smith (Financial Times)
Joining us for this episode is Victoria Morgan-Smith, the Director of Delivery for Engineering Enablement at Financial Times. Victoria shares some of the tradeoffs in ...