The Peterman Pod
Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram
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Episodes (67)
Casey Muratori: Surprises In Computer History And Where Bad Code Comes From
Sep 14, 2026
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How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar
Sep 7, 2026
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Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky
Aug 31, 2026
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Sergey Levine: Current State of Humanoid Robotics, China & Future Predictions
Aug 24, 2026
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Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
Aug 17, 2026
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Creator of Lean: Handwritten Math Will Change Dramatically | Leonardo de Moura
Aug 10, 2026
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Creator of Lua: Scripting, Programming Languages, Predictions | Roberto Ierusalimschy
Aug 3, 2026
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Turing Award Winner: Early AI, LLM Predictions, Causality | Judea Pearl
Jul 27, 2026
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Creator of OCaml: Functional Programming, Formal Verification, Programming Languages | Xavier Leroy
Jul 20, 2026
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Turing Award Winner: TPU vs GPU vs CPU, Computer Architecture, RISC vs CISC | David Patterson
Jul 13, 2026
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Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman
Jul 6, 2026
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MIT Complexity Theorist: Why You Can Do Better Than “Optimal” On Leetcode & SAT | Ryan Williams
Jun 29, 2026
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OpenAI Eng & Dev Tools Founder: How Software Engineering Is Changing | Charlie Marsh
Jun 22, 2026
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Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Land a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg
Jun 15, 2026
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Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones
Jun 8, 2026
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Turing Award Winner: P vs NP, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Quantum Computation | Avi Wigderson
Jun 1, 2026
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Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Eng: Building Great Systems and Advice for the AI Era | James Cowling
May 25, 2026
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Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup
May 18, 2026
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Harvard Professor: CS50, What Matters More Than CS, Lecturing Well | David J Malan
May 11, 2026
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PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White
May 4, 2026
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Turing Award Winner: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems | Barbara Liskov
Apr 27, 2026
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Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker
Apr 20, 2026
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AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker
Apr 13, 2026
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Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham
Apr 6, 2026
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Retired Amazon VP: How Corporate Politics Work And How To Win | Ethan Evans
Mar 30, 2026
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The Co-Creator of Kubernetes On Convincing Google, Building It, and Scaling for LLMs
Mar 23, 2026
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Meta Hiring Lead On Behind The Scenes of Senior+ Eng Hiring
Mar 16, 2026
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OpenAI Codex Tech Lead On How His Career Grew And How He Uses Codex | Michael Bolin
Mar 9, 2026
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Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill
Mar 2, 2026
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Turing Award Winner On Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport
Feb 23, 2026
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Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories
Feb 16, 2026
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Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings
Feb 9, 2026
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Instagram Principal Eng (IC8) On Building IG Stories, 1 Promo Per Half, Small Teams
Feb 2, 2026
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Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career
Jan 30, 2026
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Ex-Citadel Quant and AI Researcher On Breaking In, Tech vs Finance Careers
Jan 26, 2026
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Meta Senior Staff (IC7) Eng's Honest Demotion Story
Jan 23, 2026
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Airbnb Staff Eng on How To Not Get Stuck at Senior and Untold Rules of Calibrations
Jan 19, 2026
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New Grad to Principal Engineer (IC8) at Meta (Career Story)
Jan 12, 2026
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Anthropic Eng Leader And Ex-Senior Director at Meta On Microsoft vs Facebook, Career Learnings
Jan 4, 2026
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Best Software Engineering Career Advice of 2025
Dec 29, 2025
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Frontline Manager at Meta to Senior Director at Snapchat in 3 Years (Career Story)
Dec 22, 2025
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Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew
Dec 15, 2025
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Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)
Dec 8, 2025
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Robinhood SWE Turned $1B+ Founder on Non-Linear Careers, Being Jaded About Promos, Startup Learnings
Nov 30, 2025
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CloudKitchens CTO on Intelligence, Regrets, Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick Stories
Nov 21, 2025
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Uber Distinguished Eng On Unfair Promos, Influence, Engineering Regrets (Career Story)
Nov 11, 2025
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Shopify Distinguished Eng (L10) on Principal+ Engineering, Career Story, Regrets
Oct 24, 2025
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Mozilla Firefox CTO on Browser War Stories and the Path to Distinguished Engineer
Oct 10, 2025
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Intern to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer in 11 Promotions (Career Story)
Sep 5, 2025
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Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)
Aug 29, 2025
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