Tech Teams Today: Podcast

Chief Data Officer @ Surescripts | You Can Predict It. Should You?

Josh Anderson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:38:29 GMT

Lynne Nowak practiced internal medicine for nearly 15 years before an unexpected reorg handed her a team of data scientists and PhD researchers. Her first reaction: why would you give the data team to someone who isn't a data person?

Her boss's answer changed how she thought about leadership. You don't have to write the SQL. You have to ask the right questions, hire people smarter than you, and build a culture where problems surface early.

Josh and Lynne get into the structure of her 3-part data org at Surescripts, the Analytics Business Partner role she built to translate between business and data teams, why "new prescription" is a surprisingly complicated phrase, and the opioid prediction model that taught her the difference between "can we" and "should we."

They close on AI governance in healthcare, why she treats AI like a really good intern, and the parenting philosophy that shaped her leadership style.

About Our Guest:
Lynne Nowak leads data and analytics at Surescripts. A practicing physician for nearly 15 years before moving into health technology, she now runs teams spanning data platform, analytics, and data products, with a leadership philosophy built on hiring people smarter than her and asking "should we" before "can we."

Sr VP @ Dynamic Aviation | From F-22 Flight Tests to Leading Tech Teams

Josh Anderson — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:45:15 GMT

Molly Mae Potter's path to tech leadership started with a 4-year-old's plan to become an astronaut. It ran through Embry-Riddle, a NASA internship, and testing F-22s as an Air Force flight test engineer before a Dell hiring manager bet on a resume nobody else would pick up.

Now, as Senior VP of Technology, Engineering and Programs at Dynamic Aviation, she hires the way she was hired: for intellectual curiosity, diversity of experience, and whether she'd want to be stuck on a 15-hour flight with you.

In this episode, Molly Mae and Josh dig into how to actually hire for potential when recruiters want checkboxes, why "no one's an expert" is the most useful phrase in an AI-era hiring conversation, the crown-jewels framework for deciding what your org stops doing, and the leadership table moment that made her walk away from a Fortune 100 seat.

About Our Guest:

Molly Mae Potter is Senior VP of Technology, Engineering and Programs at Dynamic Aviation. A former Air Force flight test engineer on the F-22, she spent nearly a decade at Dell, led security and compliance for HPE GreenLake, and founded the consulting firm Salem CISO. She's a contributing author of Luminaries: Women Leaders Who Light the Way ( Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5DZ84ZL )

One Engineer and a Swarm of Agents?

Josh Anderson — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:00:19 GMT

What happens to an engineering team when one person can run a swarm of agents? David Shen, Devin Goodsell, and Francisco Trindade came into the studio to pressure-test that idea, and they don't fully agree on the how or the when.

The conversation moves from the easy version ("one engineer, a bunch of bots") to the parts that actually matter: where the real bottleneck lives, what breaks when 5,000 agents commit to the same repo, and how you'd shape a team for 2028 without copying Meta's headlines.

Everything Is Changing. Great Leadership Isn't.

Josh Anderson — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:02:00 GMT

Josh sits down with Radha Ranganathan and Stacey Moore to dig into the leadership fundamentals that survive every wave of disruption: clarity, trust, developing people, and delivering outcomes. They get specific about what “understand the business” actually means (hint: get in the rooms, learn the KPIs, read the news), why mentorship gets more important as AI takes over the rote work, and how judgment gets built through experiences no tool can replicate.

Plus a masterclass on networking that pays off years later: giving first, taking the recruiter call even when you’re not looking, and building your own personal board of directors.

Dir of Eng @ Mosaic | Over 90% of Their Code Is AI-Generated

Josh Anderson — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:32:00 GMT

What does engineering leadership look like when more than 90% of your team's code is written by AI?

Adrian Chang, Director of Engineering at Mosaic, joins Josh to talk through what that actually means day-to-day: how the old LeetCode interview stopped telling you anything useful, why AI fluency is now a requirement for every hire, and what happens to code review when the machine is writing (and approving) most of the pull requests.

They also get into the part that doesn't change. The tooling has flipped completely, but the job of growing the business, shipping quality, and keeping a team steady through the noise is the same one it always was. Adrian shares the advice he wishes he'd had on the way up: when you move into leadership, treat yourself like a junior engineer again. Year zero. Your years of experience get you maybe 10 to 20% of the way there.

A good one for anyone leading a team through the AI shift, or building the mental model for the seat they're heading toward.

About Our Guest:

Adrian Chang is a Director of Engineering at Mosaic, where he leads product engineering across teams in the Bay Area, Vancouver, and Toronto. He's been shipping software for more than 17 years, starting out at Cisco, and now spends his time on the question a lot of leaders are circling: what a team looks like when AI writes most of the code, and how you lead people through it.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠⁠

Sr Dir @ OpenGov | How To Cut AI Signal From Noise

Josh Anderson — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:45:00 GMT

Coding got fast. Gianluca Biccari's point is that almost nothing else did.

In this episode, Gianluca, Senior Director of Engineering at OpenGov, walks through what actually changes when your team can generate code at unprecedented speed. His analogy: you've dropped a 300 MPH engine into the car, but the steering, the brakes, and the lane-keeping are all still tuned for 60. The mistakes don't disappear. They get amplified.

We also get into the human side of all this. Gianluca leans on the Switch framework, the rider, the elephant, and the path, to explain why top-down AI mandates stall and peer-to-peer wins spread. And we talk about the thing keeping most engineering leaders up at night: leading through ambiguity when everyone expects you to have answers that don't exist yet.

A few things you'll take away:

Why "AI is just another tool" undersells what's actually happening
How to build a filter for signal when the firehose never shuts off
What a real system of control looks like across the full SDLC
Why looking backward matters as much as looking forward when nothing is certain

About Our Guest

Gianluca Biccari is Senior Director of Engineering at OpenGov, the cloud software company built for U.S. local governments, school districts, and public agencies. He runs both platform and product engineering teams that own the full stack, from front end to operations, across hubs in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, and India.

His leadership approach centers on small wins and the emotional reality of change, not just the technical one. He's spent the last year pushing his teams to scale velocity across the entire software lifecycle rather than just the coding step, and to lean into ambiguity instead of waiting for it to clear. Originally from Italy and a University of Bologna grad, he does his clearest thinking on a bike.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠⁠

Sr Dir @ Twilio | AI, Judgment, and Engineering at Massive Scale

Josh Anderson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Bhavin Surela leads large-scale messaging engineering at Twilio, where his teams handle WhatsApp, RCS, and OTT channels at a scale of billions of interactions a day. Some of those messages are OTP flows, ambulance dispatches, and banking transactions, so fast, reliable, and trustworthy aren't nice-to-haves.

Bhavin and Josh get into why operational discipline matters more in the AI era, not less. His framing: AI is a magnifying glass. If you already have good rigor, you're shipping faster. If you didn't, you're hitting walls.

They cover how Twilio keeps innovation decentralized while keeping technology choices tight (so teams move fast without tech sprawl), why judgment and subject matter expertise are becoming the scarce commodity, and where Bhavin lands on the "team of one plus agents" prediction (spoiler: he's not buying it yet).

They close on something every remote leader is wrestling with: how do you keep people actually talking to each other when it's easier to just ask the AI?

About Our Guest:

Bhavin Surela leads large-scale messaging engineering at Twilio, running a fully remote org of engineers organized around business outcomes: onboarding, message delivery, and content management across WhatsApp, RCS, and other channels. His teams operate end-to-end, full-stack, at a scale of billions of interactions a day, where reliability is non-negotiable. He's spent years investing in operational discipline at scale, and he's a clear-eyed voice on what AI does and doesn't change about that work.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠⁠

CKIO Fisher Phillips | How a Law Firm Wins Business with Custom AI

Josh Anderson — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:29:42 GMT

Most engineering leaders know the build vs. buy vs. partner question. Evan Shenkman is living the answer, and it's all three at once. Evan leads knowledge management and innovation at Fisher Phillips, a large labor and employment law firm that's quietly become one of the most aggressive AI adopters in legal. The playbook is set in legal, but it travels.

In this conversation, Josh and Evan cover:

Why build/buy/partner stopped being a choice and became a portfolio
How to hire across the AI-ML and domain-expert seam (and which soft skills actually matter)
The "moneyball" approach: turning years of messy, unstructured expert data into a working tool
Why the model du jour problem is a feature, not a bug
How attorney-client privilege becomes a real competitive moat when you build your own tools
What Evan's path from practicing attorney to AI team lead says about non-linear careers in tech leadership

About Our Guest:

Evan Shenkman leads the knowledge management and innovation function at Fisher Phillips, a large labor and employment law firm. After ten years as a practicing attorney, he moved into KM, then data analytics, then AI, becoming one of the earliest adopters of generative AI in the legal industry. His firm was a design partner on CoCounsel, the first GenAI tool built for legal work, and now runs an in-house team of ML engineers and former practicing lawyers building custom AI tools on top of foundation models. Evan isn't a coder. His job is making sure the people who can work seamlessly with the people who practice law.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠

CTO Cube | Coding Got Easier. Engineering Didn't.

Josh Anderson — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Every engineering leader is being told AI changed everything. But what actually changed?

Josh Anderson sits down with Josh Holat, CTO of Cube, to draw a line between two things that have quietly gotten conflated: coding and engineering. The tools moved fast. The job didn't. Code review is the new bottleneck. Tests still have to pass. Your name is still on the commit, even when an LLM wrote half of it.

They get into AI slop in pull requests, why "senior software engineer" became something not to put in a cover letter, how Cube interviews now that take-homes are dead, the shift to smaller teams and what's replacing agile, token budgets without theater, and the JSON test harness that lets a 20-person FP&A engineering team ship with confidence in a domain where rounding errors end careers.

About Our Guest:

Josh Holat is the CTO of Cube, a spreadsheet-native FP&A platform used by finance teams to plan, model, and report without leaving Excel or Google Sheets. He's been building and scaling engineering teams for over 15 years, including a prior co-founder role that ended in acquisition. At Cube, he leads engineering, architecture, and the company's AI strategy, with a particular focus on shipping reliable systems in a domain (finance) where being wrong has hard, immediate consequences.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠

AVP GM Financial | Why This Engineering Leader Isn't Worried About AI

Josh Anderson — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Most conversations about AI right now sound like either the world's ending or it's just beginning. Seng Lin Shee has a different read: we've been here before.

In this episode, Seng Lin makes the case that multi-agent systems are essentially multi-threading with English, that good engineering principles don't expire just because the tooling changed, and that the leaders who've already seen a few cycles have most of the mental models they need for this one. We get into how he runs a team that spans interns to 30-year veterans, why he bakes learning directly into performance reviews, and how his team went from building one internal RAG tool to running a platform that helps the rest of a regulated finance company ship GenAI safely.

If you've been feeling like the floor is shifting under engineering leadership, this one's a useful counterweight. Seng Lin is one of the more optimistic voices we've had on, and his optimism is grounded in something most people aren't talking about: pattern recognition.

About the guest:

Seng Lin Shee, PhD, leads innovation labs and generative AI work at GM Financial, where his team operates as a platform and accelerator for GenAI applications across the company. Before GM Financial, he held architecture and engineering roles spanning finance, cloud, real estate, HCM, and EV. He's been in the field long enough to have shipped his first product on Windows 2008 R2 and to have read his email in Pine, which is part of why his "we've been here before" thesis lands the way it does.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠

VP at Yahoo | Your Bench Is Your Ceiling: Leadership in the AI Era

Josh Anderson — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:45:00 GMT

Josh sits down with Siva Jagadeesan, VP of Product, Engineering, and Optimization at Yahoo, where he leads the monetization group behind advertising across all Yahoo properties. Siva still writes code because he loves it, but his real conviction lives in how engineering leaders should be operating right now: not as the smartest person in the room, but as the architect of conditions where the smartest answer surfaces, wherever it comes from.

What you'll learn:

Why the "movie general" model of leadership stops working the moment your domain gets complex, and what actually replaces it
How to build a real bench by delegating authority instead of tasks (and why your bench is the actual ceiling on your scope)
How to engineer psychological safety into your team's process instead of trying to talk it into existence
Why combining product and engineering creates "organizational liquidity," and why that matters more than just faster decisions
How to read AI's productivity gains honestly: where it's actually moving the bottleneck, and where it isn't
Why the future two-person team isn't shrinking. It's capability expansion, and that changes how you staff
The mindset shift that separates leaders whose teams thrive in this moment from leaders whose teams freeze

About the guest:

Siva Jagadeesan is VP of Product, Engineering, and Yield Optimization at Yahoo, where he leads ad monetization across all Yahoo consumer properties, including Mail, News, Finance, Sports, and more. He owns the full picture: product strategy, engineering execution, and revenue optimization.

A software engineer at heart who still codes today, Siva has spent 20+ years building technology for Fortune 500 companies and startups. He was a founding member of Amazon Publisher Services, helped build the ML engineering team at TubeMogul, and co-founded the engineering function at Runa, an early-stage SaaS startup using predictive modeling to personalize offers in real time. Before any of that, he spent seven-plus years at ThoughtWorks, where mentoring future engineers was the moment he realized leadership was where he wanted to build his career.

His north star is non-linear scalability, the belief that aligning technology, culture, and process is how great teams multiply their impact.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠

VP at Zinnia | When Does AI Actually Earn Trust in a Data Org?

Josh Anderson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:24:08 GMT

What does it take to scale a data science and engineering team from 5 to 20 people in a single year — while also navigating the chaos of AI adoption in a space where the data has to be perfect every single time? Dustin Tucker, VP of Data Science and Data Engineering at Zinnia, joins Tech Teams Today for a grounded, no-hype conversation on building data teams, leading through change, and the leadership mindset shift that took him years to figure out.Dustin has a contrarian take that will rattle a lot of engineers: stop bringing him solutions. Bring him the problem.What you'll learn:- How Dustin structures his data engineering team — client-facing, foundational, and an emerging analytic engineering function- Why he scaled from 5 to 20 engineers in one year and what he learned about hiring fast without sacrificing quality- The short, hard skills test approach to hiring that cuts through AI-assisted resumes and keeps the bar high- Why he refuses to bike-shed on AI tools — and how focusing on Snowflake Cortex and DBT Copilot is driving real outcomes- The ROI equation he runs on every AI project before a single token gets spent- Where AI trust actually stands in a data org where client-facing output has to be perfect- How AI has changed his day-to-day as a leader — and where documentation and follow-up have gotten a serious upgrade- The leadership framework from Situational Leadership II that he still uses to diagnose every struggling report- Why the best thing he ever did as a leader was learn to meet people where they are instead of expecting them to meet him- His advice to aspiring leaders: there is no template, it takes time, and that's okayAbout the guest:Dustin Tucker is VP of Data Science and Data Engineering at Zinnia, a technology company transforming the life insurance and annuities space through data, automation, and AI. With nearly 20 years of experience across Fortune 500 companies, including Lowe's and Disney, Dustin has spent his career building data teams before the field even had a name — and leading them through every technology shift since.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠

CTO/COO @ KOHO | When Your Developers 10x, You Hire More — Not Fewer

Josh Anderson — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Jonathan Klein is the CTO and COO at KOHO, a Canadian fintech company, which means shipping AI slop into production is simply not an option. He's also someone who grew an engineering org from 20 to 600 people at Wayfair, then deliberately chose to go smaller again to get back closer to the work. Jonathan has a take on token capping that he's happy to defend.

What you'll learn:

Why KOHO moved to a full-stack model and how Figma Code Connect is changing what front-end development even means
How AI is shrinking the atomic unit of a team from six devs to four — and where those people are going
Why judgment and architectural taste are now the scarcest skills on any engineering team, now that code itself is cheap to produce
The "swarm of code reviewers": specialized AI agents reviewing security, maintainability, and architecture separately before a human ever looks at the PR
Why he requires candidates to use AI in interviews and designs problems hard enough that they have to
The hype anxiety problem — why people feel like they need an agent running 24/7, and how to give your team permission to shut it down
His contrarian take: if your developer goes from 1.5x ROI to 10x ROI, the answer is to hire more, not fewer
The insight from The Power of Full Engagement he keeps coming back to: the fundamental currency of productivity is energy, not time

About the guest:Jonathan Klein is the CTO and COO at KOHO, a Canadian fintech company reimagining banking for Canadians. With a career spanning Wayfair (twice), Etsy, and multiple early-stage startups, Jonathan has led engineering organizations from a team of five to a team of 600 and brings a rare combination of deep technical credibility and organizational leadership experience.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode:

- YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq⁠⁠⁠

- Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308⁠⁠⁠

- Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336⁠⁠⁠

Connect with us:

- Revelo: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.revelo.com⁠⁠⁠

- Josh Anderson (Field CTO): ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadavidanderson/⁠

- Revelo on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/⁠

Co-founder/CTO Mavely | AI Amplifies Your Culture, Good or Bad

Josh Anderson — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Sean O'Brien, Co-founder/CTO Mavely, has been a believer in remote-first engineering since before COVID made it mainstream. He's also built a personal OS — a Sean.config file — that feeds his prompt patterns into a knowledge graph so his AI tools start to think like him. And he has a philosophy on engineering teams that he's been refining since his first company in college: you don't have to go find 10x engineers. You can build the ecosystem where they're born.This is a rich conversation about what it actually takes to build high-performing distributed teams, adopt AI without losing your culture, and lead in a way that makes the people around you better.

What you'll learn:

Why philosophical alignment — not tooling — is the foundation of every effective remote team
The "happy engineer is a 10x engineer" framework and how he measures developer experience alongside customer impact
How Sean went from ad hoc AI experimentation to a systematic, skills-based approach with Cursor and Claude Code
Why he asks candidates to critique AI-generated code instead of writing their own — and what that reveals- The "hype anxiety" problem: why you need both the agentic AI evangelist and the safe, functional code purist in the room
Why AI usage is now assessed for every role he hires — not just engineering
The Co-Intelligence framework: treating AI as an alien brain partner and why the delegation mindset is the new must-have skill
What a Keurig co-founder taught him about healthy conflict and why it still shapes how he leads- Why AI amplifies your culture — and what that means if your culture is already broken
His one piece of advice for every aspiring leader: learn to listen to understand, not to respond

About the guest:

Sean O'Brien is the Co-founder/CTO of Mavely, a leading social media marketing platform. A serial entrepreneur, Sean has been building technology companies since college — including an emoji and sticker company in the early smartphone era — and has spent his career at the intersection of people, culture, and technology. He's a firm believer that the right engineering ecosystem doesn't just attract 10x engineers, it creates them.

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Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

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SVP at Solera | How AI Is Reshaping Engineering Orgs

Josh Anderson — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Alicia Davis is the SVP of Engineering and Development Operations at Solera — a global enterprise operating at scale in vehicle lifecycle management — and she has takes that you won't hear from most engineering leaders. She loves reorgs. She thinks AI is going to put your agile team "on Ozempic." And she'll tell you flat out: you're not interviewing to find the best candidate. You're interviewing to filter out the ones who will do damage.This is a packed conversation on what it actually takes to lead engineering orgs through constant change — and what most leaders are getting dangerously wrong about AI adoption right now.What you'll learn:

Why Alicia loves reorgs — and why she thinks AI will make them more frequent across every org
The "two pizza team on Ozempic" theory: how AI shrinks team size while massively expanding capacity
How the job of an engineer is flipping from 80% coding / 20% decisions to the exact reverse
Why she's seeing candidates show up to interviews with AI assistants live on the call — and how she's adapted her process
The Taco Bell cautionary tale: what happens when you rush AI into production without guardrails
Why "good brakes make the car go faster" — and how that Agile principle applies to AI adoption right now
What the trust gap in AI actually requires to close (hint: it's the same fundamentals as always)
The contrarian hiring take: you're not interviewing for the best candidate, you're interviewing to exclude the harmful ones
What the next generation of engineering leaders needs to do to stay ahead of disruption

About the guest:Alicia Davis is SVP of Engineering and Development Operations at Solera, the global leader in vehicle lifecycle management SaaS, data, and services. With deep experience leading large-scale engineering organizations through multiple technology hype cycles — cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, and now AI — Alicia brings a pattern-recognition perspective on change that most leaders are still catching up to.

About Tech Teams Today:Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

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AVP Kennedy Krieger Institute | How a Healthcare Nonprofit Is Getting AI Right

Josh Anderson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT

What does it take to lead a 30-person digital transformation team inside one of America's most respected pediatric health nonprofits — and do it almost entirely remotely? Tara Eckert, Assistant Vice President of Digital Transformation at Kennedy Krieger Institute, joins Tech Teams Today for a candid conversation on building high-performing teams, navigating AI responsibly, and what engineering leadership actually requires in 2026.

From building a PMO from scratch to her viral take on remote accountability, Tara brings a grounded, no-fluff perspective that challenges how a lot of leaders think about their teams.What you'll learn:- Why remote work performance problems are a leadership problem, not an employee problem- How Tara built a PMO that turned a scrappy data team into a full engineering org of 30 — mostly remote, many out of state- The "peer supporter" model: why she pairs battle-scarred senior devs with AI-native junior devs on every project- What the AI hiring arms race actually looks like in practice — and how she uses AI to screen AI-generated resumes- Why critical thinking, not prompt engineering, is the skill that will matter most as AI matures- How AI gave her back enough time to get her hands back into technical work — and why she thinks that makes her a better leader- The biggest mistake engineering leaders are making with AI rollouts (she admits she's making it too)- Her take on the AI trust gap: "I don't care if it was AI or Bugs Bunny that generated the code. If it passes the tests, I trust it."About the guest:Tara Eckert is the Assistant Vice President of Digital Transformation at Kennedy Krieger Institute, a world-renowned nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of children and young adults with developmental disabilities. Over her seven years at Kennedy Krieger, she's grown her team from 4 to 30 people, built the organization's first PMO, and is now leading the charge on responsible AI adoption — including chairing the organization's Data Use and Security Committee.About Tech Teams Today:Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.Subscribe and never miss an episode:- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@revelohq- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymzd0MC1YjnFy7hKzzR9x?si=51f3989aa4bc4308- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-teams-today/id1641545336Connect with us:- Revelo: https://www.revelo.com- Lucas Mendes (CEO): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmzmendes/- Revelo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/#EngineeringLeadership #DigitalTransformation #RemoteWork #AILeadership #TechTeamsToday #HealthcareIT #NonprofitTech #StaffAugmentation #CriticalThinking #AIAdoption #Copilot #TechLeadership #Revelo #KennedyKrieger

CTO at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: Why Your Fastest Coder Isn't Your Best Engineer

Josh Anderson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:01:05 GMT

What happens when a CTO brings Silicon Valley-level engineering leadership to one of America's most iconic nonprofits? Travis Gibson, CTO at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, leads a team of 35 across internal staff and staff augmentation, and he's rethinking what it means to build high-performing tech teams. In this episode, he challenges some of the biggest assumptions in engineering leadership today.**What you'll learn:**- Why the fastest coder on your team probably isn't your best engineer, and what actually makes someone great- How AI is reshaping the CTO role beyond just being another tool in the stack- Why remote work isn't a compromise but a genuine cheat code for deep, focused engineering work- What it takes to lead a blended team of internal engineers and staff augmentation effectively- How engineering leadership at a mission-driven nonprofit differs from (and often outperforms) traditional tech companies- The leadership principles that help technical teams stay aligned when they're not in the same room**About the guest:**Travis Gibson is the Chief Technology Officer at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the nation's largest and most experienced youth mentoring organization. He leads a technology organization of 15 internal staff and 20 staff augmentation professionals, driving digital transformation for an organization that serves communities across the country. Travis brings a thoughtful, people-first approach to engineering leadership that challenges conventional wisdom about speed, talent, and how great teams actually work.**About Tech Teams Today:**Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.Subscribe and never miss an episode:Connect with us:Revelo: https://www.revelo.comLucas Mendes (CEO): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmzmendes/Revelo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/#EngineeringLeadership #CTO #Nonprofit #TechTeams #RemoteWork #AILeadership #StaffAugmentation #DeepWork #TechTeamsToday #BigBrothersBigSisters

CTO at Synpulse: The Engineering Culture Principle Nobody Talks About

Josh Anderson — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:54:46 GMT

Most engineering leaders talk about AI changing how we build software. Jieke Pan, CTO at Synpulse, is more concerned about what we’re losing in the process. In this episode, he breaks down why the fundamentals of software engineering matter more now than ever, and why “always be kind” is actually a high-performance leadership principle.

What you’ll learn:

Why being a hands-on CTO who still writes code closes the gap between business expectations and engineering reality
How extreme programming practices like test-driven development and pair programming are more relevant than ever in the age of AI
What “always be kind” actually means in engineering culture (hint: it’s not about being friendly)
Why the middle layer of engineers is thinning out and what senior leaders need to do about it
How to hire and evaluate engineers who grew up coding with AI copilots
Best practices for leading distributed, multicultural engineering teams across time zones

About the guest:

Jieke Pan is the CTO at Synpulse, a global management consulting and technology company. With over 20 years of experience leading digital product innovation and transformation across banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, and telco, Jieke is a hands-on technology leader who still writes production code. He’s passionate about engineering culture, extreme programming, and building high-performing teams that ship quality software.

About Tech Teams Today:

Tech Teams Today is a podcast by Revelo where we sit down with engineering leaders to talk about how they build, scale, and lead high-performing tech teams. Real conversations. No fluff.

Subscribe and never miss an episode

Connect with us:Revelo: https://www.revelo.comLucas Mendes (CEO): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmzmendes/Revelo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/revelohq/

#EngineeringLeadership #CTO #SoftwareEngineering #TechTeams #AIinSoftware #VibeCoding #TestDrivenDevelopment #PairProgramming #EngineeringCulture #TechTeamsToday

CTO at Revenue.io | Hiring, Fraud, Remote Teams & Developer Velocity

Josh Anderson — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:25:51 GMT

What happens when AI changes not only how engineers work — but how they’re hired, evaluated, and led?In this episode, Derek Knudsen, Chief Delivery Officer and Head of Engineering at Revenue.io, shares a clear, grounded view on the future of engineering teams: how to keep velocity high with smaller, surgical teams, how to navigate the explosion of hiring fraud, how to measure real ROI from AI tools, and why he believes AI represents an intellectual extinction event for companies that don’t adapt.If you lead engineers, this conversation will hit close to home.⸻What you’ll learn– Team Design: Why Revenue.io runs “small and mighty” podsLess headcount, more impact: the counterintuitive math behind smaller, deeply aligned teams.– Remote Work: Why they stayed remote even as others push RTOAnd how they collaborate across fully distributed teams with intentional in-person strategy sessions.– Hiring in 2025: How they screen for behavior, not buzzwordsWhy they shifted from skill-first hiring to attribute-first hiring — and how that improved outcomes.– Fraud in hiring: 7,000 applicants for one job & a near-miss fraud caseDeepfakes, fake paystubs, stolen identities — and what Derek learned the hard way.– AI ROI: How they measure productivity per engineerVelocity, opportunity cost, and what “2 FTE per FTE” looks like with agentic workflows.– The learning curve: Why leaders must create space to experimentAI doesn’t magically increase output; it requires dedicated time to climb the curve.– Leadership today: Empathy + modeling behavior during uncertaintyWhy leaders must “show their work” with AI to reduce fear and increase adoption.– Contrarian take:AI isn’t another wave — it’s an extinction event for individuals and organizations that don’t adapt quickly.⸻About our guestDerek Knudsen is Chief Delivery Officer and Head of Engineering at Revenue.io, where he leads distributed engineering teams focused on platform modernization, AI adoption, hiring excellence, and strategic delivery.About the showTech Teams Today is hosted by Lucas Mendes, CEO & Co-founder of Revelo — helping companies hire elite, time-zone-aligned engineers from Latin America. New episodes weekly.

VP Eng at Gong | Hiring A Players in the Age of AI

Josh Anderson — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:39:43 GMT

When you join a 10-person startup and stay long enough to see it grow into hundreds of engineers, you don’t just watch the change — you help shape it.

In this episode, Gilad Matot, VP of R&D Sales Applications at Gong, shares how he’s helped grow the org from a single office to three hubs (Israel, Dublin, New York), how he thinks about hiring A-players in the AI era, and why he still believes the real job of an engineer is to create customer value, not just write code.

You’ll hear how Gong structures its R&D teams, how they keep engineers close to customers, what’s actually changed with AI, and why leadership is still 70% about people.

What you’ll learn

• How Gong’s R&D evolved from 10 people to ~400+ (on the way to 600)

• How Gilad structures his ~80-person division across Israel, Dublin, and New York

• Why every pod has a dedicated PM and is pushed to challenge product decisions

• How AI is changing 0→1 prototyping, but not (yet) the 95% that comes after

• Why “best engineers = best coders” is no longer true

• How he hires: A-players hiring A-players, and the one question he always asks• How COVID forced him to let go of “corridor management” and trust his leaders

• Why he thinks AI is overhyped and still transformative• His contrarian view on unit tests and early “customers-as-QA” days

• Honest advice for ICs considering leadership (and when not to do it)

About our guest

Gilad Matot is VP of R&D Sales Applications at Gong, where he leads multiple product groups and an Enterprise Solutions team spanning Israel, Dublin, and New York.

About the show

Tech Teams Today is hosted by Lucas Mendes, CEO & Co-founder of Revelo—helping companies build elite engineering teams and improve AI models with expert data.

New episodes weekly.