The Engineering Leader
The Engineering Leader is an unscripted exploration of how to build great software Engineering Teams and drive effective Digital Transformation. Hosted by Steve Westgarth; a passionate global engineering leader with an ambition to transform consumer healthcare on a multinational scale.
Each week Steve speaks with people working at the top of their game within the software engineering community. This includes Engineers, Engineering Managers, SDETS, Product Owners, Engineering Directors and people working within other roles who are passionate about building great software and driving effective digital transformation.
This is a podcast with a difference because because it contains insights from people working in some of the worlds most ambitious companies - people who understand how to develop software at scale and recognise that as a community we can be more successful if we learn from each other in order to drive our own success.
Episodes
34 episodes
Jennifer Walton on Product Management
In this episode I'm joined by Jen Walton, a Senior Product Manager currently working at Haleon having previously worked in product focussed roles at both Boots and Microlise.We chat about the difference between project and product and t...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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47:25
Pat Kua on Building Engineering Teams
In this episode I am joined by Pat Kua an experienced technical leader who chats to me about developing a great engineering culture. We talk about roles within the team and the importance of providing the team with strong architect...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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47:00
5 Ways to Drive Engineering Core Competencies
Salaries of engineers are growing exponentially, it is therefore critical for organisations to ensure that the engineers working with us have the skills that we really need. In this episode I explore my top 5 tips for how you can d...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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12:25
Usman Hamid on Enterprise Architecture
Today on the Engineering Leader I’m joined by Usman Hamid – Vice President of Enterprise Architecture and Engineering at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare – my own company which is due to become separate and become a standalone Consumer Healt...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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59:05
Marcos Placona on Developer Relations
Marcos Placona is Director of Developer Relations at Sourcegraph and in this episode will chat about the importance of developer relations within modern software houses. We also explore how to build great teams and the importance of valuing e...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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1:11:07
Reena Dayal on the Science of Leadership
In this episode we explore leadership through the lens of Neuroscience and Ayurveda. Reena Dayal is an executive Mentor, Team Coach and Leadership Accelerator with the Collaborators UK where she focusses on helping leaders to unleash their supe...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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56:34
Mo Shalchi on all things Javascript
Today on the Engineering Leader I’m joined by Mo Shalchi, a director of Engineering at GSK where he works as part of my team focussed on building core platform capabilities and web propositions predominantly within the MERN tech stack. In this ...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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41:37
Chris Hay on Web 3.0 and the Metaverse
Today on the Engineering Leader I’m joined by Chris Hay, a distinguished Engineer at IBM IX where he focusses on exploring technology trends so that he can effectively guide teams and customers on their digital transformation journey.Ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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48:55
A Moment on the Metaverse with Chris Hay
In this moment Chris Hay from IBM IX evangelises about how he believes we will engage with the metaverse within the next 5-10 years.
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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2:54
Rob Whitaker on Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps
Rob is an iOS engineer working at Curva, previously having worked at Capital One. He specialises in mobile accessibility and is the author of the book Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps.In this episode we talk about all things to do with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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45:26
Amar Mehan on the Role of a Solution Architect
Amar is Lead Technologist at Boots where is focusses on leading solution architecture, tech design and governance for business solutions being developed across customer platforms including Boots.com and the Boots Mobile App.In this epis...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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56:52
A Moment on C4 Architectural Design with Amar Mehan
In this moment Amar Mehan, Lead Technologist at Boots describes how the C4 Model revolutionised the Boots approach to Architectural Design.For more information about C4 check out http://c4model.com
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Episode 23
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2:57
7 Things Every Engineering Leader Must Do to Build an Effective Engineering Organisation
In this Episode Steve shares his thoughts on 7 Things Every Engineering Leader Must Do to Build an Effective Engineering Organisation.1. How can we align patterns, principles and standards across teams to improve maintainability and min...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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21:52
Chris Roberts on Improving Agility
In this Episode I chat to Chris Roberts, CEO at Nimble Approach. Chris is passionate about Agile ways of working and is a strong proponent of building cross functional teams. Chris has worked as Agile Delivery Lead at Team level, as an Agile Co...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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34:30
Chris Barker on the State of Mobile in 2022
This week I'm joined by Chris Barker a principal software engineer working at Jagular Landrover. Chris is also a published author having released books focussed on iOS with Swift and Swift UI.In this episode we chat about the state of mobile ...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:03:36
A Moment with Chris Barker
In this moment Chris Barker, a principal engineer at Jagular Landrover reflects on the production stability of Swift UI.
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:56
Dario Incalza on Cyber Security
In this episode I chat to Dario Incalza, CTO for Accounton and Lawren where he manages the software and security teams that build and secure scalable platforms that digitise the ways that accountants and lawyers work.Dario is a highly technical...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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48:18
A Moment with Dario Incalza
Meet Dario Incalza, CTO for Accounton and Lawren. In this moment he reflects on the importance of DevSecOps being a core foundation of your engineering approach.
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:13
Jaime Lopez on Building Great Engineering Teams
In this episode Jaime Lopez joins me to discuss how to build great engineering teams. During the conversation we explore influencing senior leadership and helping teams to understand the bigger picture in terms of what the organisation is tryin...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:22:44
A Moment with Jaime Lopez
Jaime Lopez is a developer relations manager working at Jack Henry and Associates where his focusses on developing open banking API’s. He is also the co-host of the more than just code podcast.Jaime will be joining me on the Engineering...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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2:03
Tim Condon on Server Side Swift with Vapor
This week my guest is Tim Condon, a member of the Vapor core team and server side swift team lead at raywenderlich.com.In this episode we discuss all things Server Side Swift including the new concurrency features coming to Vapor with t...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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52:55
A Moment with Tim Condon
Tim Condon is a member of the Vapor, Server Side Swift core team and in this moment he discusses some of the most recent developments in the framework as well as some of the changes that are coming to vapor in the near future.
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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3:01
Xavier Gouchet on Developing Performant Android Apps
In this episode Xavier Gouchet, a software engineering team lead at DataDog talks about the importance of focussing on performance right at the outset of any development project.It was also great to spend some time focussed on approaches to aut...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:13:02
A Moment with Xavier Gouchet
In this moment Xavier Gouchet, a software engineering team lead at DataDog, shares his approach to Application performance testing and his recommendations for how leaders can help Engineers to create high quality maintainable code.
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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2:12
Rob Merrett on The Azure Cloud
Rob Merrett is Managing Director at Credera a company specialising in supporting clients to build out their cloud infrastructure. In this episode Rob talks about cloud strategy focussing on the Engineering hurdles that must be overcome in order...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:08:52
