Tag: technical leadership

  • #19 How to Develop Early Career Engineers (with John Hyland)

    Episode 19 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel talks with John Hyland who ran the Ignite Program at New Relic, which is dedicated to developing early career engineers. John shares insights about driving better outcomes for the organization and the early career professionals who join them. Episode Transcript Ash Patel: Great to have you on, John. I am…

  • #18 Winning at SRE in Banking and Telecom (with Troy Koss)

    Episode 18 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel talks with Troy Koss who is the Director of SRE at CapitalOne, an early adopter of DevOps and SRE in the banking sector. He shares insights on working in regulated industries like banking telecom with his early work experience being at Verizon, a US telecom. Troy also shares his…

  • #17 Lessons from SRE’s Wild West Days (with Rick Boone)

    Episode 17 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel interviews Rick Boone who is a pioneering engineer in the field of infrastructure and reliability engineering. Rick worked at Facebook in production engineering when it was still called AppOps. He is also well known as being Uber’s first SRE hire. He shares amazing stories from those pioneering days. Rick…

  • #16 Acing Cloud Infra Leadership in Digital Media Giant (with Sreejith Chelanchery)

    Episode 16 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel interviews Sreejith Chelanchery who is SVP of Delivery and Infrastructure Engineering at Dotdash Meredith. Sreejith shares his journey from programming analyst in Bangalore, India, to now being an executive responsible for platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE at a media giant in New York City. He gives a glimpse into…

  • #15 Growing Reliability Engineering Across 5+ Companies (with Nash Seshan)

    Episode 15 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel talks with Nash Seshan, who has supported reliability work in over 5 organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Dropbox, Lyft, Netflix, and Wayfair. He shares his learnings from reliability work at these big brands. Nash also draws from his experience as co-founder of a Y Combinator-funded startup on effective engineering leadership.…

  • #11 Rising to Staff Engineer in DevOps and SRE (with Rajesh Reddy N)

    Episode 11 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel interviews Rajesh Reddy N who is a senior DevOps architect at CoinDCX. Rajesh shares his thoughts on effective patterns in SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the systems, prioritizing issues, and avoiding buzzword-driven decisions. Rajesh also highlights challenges like alert noise and treating all…

  • #8 Software Reliability Ninja Who is NOT An SRE (with Pablo Bouzada)

    Episode 8 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel interviews Pablo Bouzada about his beliefs on software reliability as a non-SRE software engineering leader. They discuss the importance of leadership to drive effective reliability changes in the software system, as well as the challenges of providing reliable service within video streaming giant, ViaPlay. Read the Episode Transcript Don’t…