The Engineering Leadership Podcast
1) Rewriting the Engineering Leadership Playbook: An ELC Annual 2025 Preview #229
Engineering leadership is undergoing a seismic shift, requiring playbooks to be rewritten, in real-time. In this special episode, hosts Patrick Gallagher and Jerry Li give you an inside look at the EL...Show More
2) The End-to-End Engineer: How WorkOS Collapsed the Talent Stack for Extreme Velocity & Alignment w/ Michael Grinich #228
What if your engineering team didn’t just write code, but owned product discovery, wrote the launch messaging, and handled early sales? In this episode, Michael Grinich, CEO and founder of WorkOS, dec...Show More
3) Influencing without authority: What every engineering leader can learn from security w/ Srinath Kuruvadi #227
Influencing without authority is the hidden superpower of security leadership—and a crucial skill every engineering leader must master. In this episode, Srinath Kuruvadi (Head of Cloud Security @ JPMo...Show More
4) Shifting out and empowering developers with AI agents, execution clarity, and vision-first leadership w/ John Amaral #226
John Amaral (CTO and co-founder @ Root.io) joins us to discuss the evolving role of engineering leaders and why vision-first leadership & building your “vision” muscle is more critical than ever. We d...Show More
5) Quick Summer Break! Join us @ ELC Annual 2025 (Early Bird Tickets End Soon)
We’re pausing the pod this week as we gear up final planning for ELC Annual 2025 - the premier event for engineering leaders. New episodes return next week (on a biweekly schedule!). This is our bigg...Show More
6) Scaling decision-making, designing eng orgs for speed & scope as underrated leverage w/ Dhruv Parthasarathy #225
What does it take to operate with startup-level speed… in one of the most complex, high-stakes industries on the planet? In this episode, we go inside Commure’s engineering org w/ Dhruv Parthasarath...Show More
7) The evolving velocity playbook, building product taste & exceptional product experiences in the AI era w/ LoĂŻc Houssier #224
How do you lead a high-velocity engineering team—when everything about how we build is changing? How do you cultivate more of a product mindset in your engineering teams? Loïc Houssier (VP Engineerin...Show More
8) Rapid Prototyping, Lightning Pods & the End of PRDs: Redefining product development & EPD in the age of AI w/ Nissim Lehyani #223
When Nissim Lehyani (VP of Product at Life360) used AI to build a math game for his son, he didn’t just prototype a game, he rewired how he thinks about product development and the relationship betwee...Show More
9) No New Episode - But We Launched Something New... Introducing the ELC Forum!
We just launched the ELC Forum — a new space for engineering leaders to dive deeper into real challenges and get peer support It’s a discussion board (like Reddit) but focused on eng leadership. We’re...Show More
10) From architect to AI exec: Scaling leadership, maintaining credibility & effective communication to non-technical execs w/ Prashant Ramarao #222
How do you go from deeply technical IC to leading 100+ engineers - and still stay close to the tech? Prashant Ramarao, SVP of Engineering & Head of AI @ Yahoo shares lessons from his unconventional le...Show More