Archive - The Developing Dev

Amazon VP Reveals Everything He's Seen In Corporate Politics | Ethan Evans

Reorgs, firings, mutiny, promos

Mar 30 • Ryan Peterman

2:50:44

The Creator of Kubernetes On Building Kubernetes

Convincing Google, technical details, scaling for LLM workloads

Mar 23 • Ryan Peterman

1:07:15

Meta Hiring Lead On Behind The Scenes of Senior+ Eng Hiring

How leveling works, unethical candidates, the role of referrals

Mar 16 • Ryan Peterman

1:42:39

OpenAI Codex Tech Lead On How His Career Grew And How He Uses Codex | Michael Bolin

Learnings from working at Google, Meta, and OpenAI

Mar 9 • Ryan Peterman

1:20:03

Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill

His career learnings through booms and busts

Mar 2 • Ryan Peterman

1:16:09

February 2026

Turing Award Winner On Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working with Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport

Questions and learnings from his career

Feb 23 • Ryan Peterman

1:10:18

Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories

What he learned in his 36 year career

Feb 16 • Ryan Peterman

1:19:11

Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings

This is Adam Ernst, a Distinguished Engineer at Meta (IC9) who’s built iOS infrastructure that has impacted the entire company.

Feb 9 • Ryan Peterman

40:45

Feb 3 • Ryan Peterman

Instagram Principal Eng (IC8) On Building IG Stories, 1 Promo Per Half, Small Teams

Career learnings from his journey

Feb 2 • Ryan Peterman

1:35:20

January 2026

Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Years

The anxiety and reality no one talks about

Jan 30 • Ryan Peterman

50:28

Stanford PhD, AI Researcher and Ex-Citadel Quant Shares His Experience

Breaking into the fields, if you need a PhD, what the nature of the work is like

Jan 26 • Ryan Peterman

58:26

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