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 75 Episodes
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 ...
What it looks like to hire Engineering Effectiveness too late | Peter Seibel (ex-Twitter)
In this episode Abi talks with Peter Seibel. Peter previously was the Director of Engineering for the Democratic National Committee, and before that led Twitter’s Engi...
Tactics for driving service adoption | Varun Achar (Razorpay)
In this episode, Varun Achar (Director of Engineering at Razorpay) explains how the Platform org has grown from a 15-person team owning everything, to 3 separate subte...
How DoorDash’s developer productivity team prioritizes projects | Marco Chirico (DoorDash)
In this episode, Marco Chirico shares the strategies DoorDash’s Developer Productivity group uses to prioritize their work. He also explains how the Developer Producti...
How GitHub’s developer experience team has evolved | Liz Saling (GitHub)
Liz Saling, Director of Engineering at GitHub, shares the story of how the Developer Experience group was founded and why GitHub paused features for a quarter to focus...