Ryan Peterman

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Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram You can find me @ryanlpeterman everywhere (Instagram,...

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Ex-Amazon VP Why Bad Managers Don't Get Fired Ethan Evans

MSL Eng Director Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets John Myles White

Turing Award Winner Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems Barbara Liskov

Turing Award Winner Disagreeing with Google, Postgres, Future Problems Mike Stonebraker

AWS Distinguished Eng Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing Marc Brooker

Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Major Failed Project Learnings

Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram Career Regrets and Learnings James Everingham

Retired Netflix Eng Director On The Best Engineer He's Ever Worked With

Retired Amazon VP How Corporate Politics Work And How To Win Ethan Evans

Why I’m Building This Keyboard

Turing Award Winner On Why Writing Improves Your Thinking Leslie Lamport

The Co-Creator of Kubernetes Engineering-Led Direction and Convincing Management Brendan Burns

Meta Hiring Lead Avoid Downleveling, Liars, Passing OpenAI And Anthropic Interviews

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

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

Turing Award Winner Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra Leslie Lamport

Retired Netflix Eng Director Leetcode, Regrets, Hiring Stories

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

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

Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career, Anxiety, and Untold Reality

Ex-Citadel Quant and AI Researcher Breaking In, Tech vs Finance Careers Nimit Sohoni

Meta Senior Staff (IC7) Eng's Honest Demotion Story

Airbnb Staff Eng Untold Rules of Calibrations and How To Not Get Stuck at Senior

Meta Principal Eng (IC8) On His Senior Staff Promo Story

New Grad to Principal Engineer (IC8) at Meta (Career Story) Adrien Friggeri

Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On Scoping Work for 100s of Engineers

Anthropic Eng Leader Mentorship Advice, Microsoft vs Facebook, Career Learnings Fiona Fung

Best Software Engineering Career Advice of 2025

Frontline Manager at Meta to Senior Director at Snapchat in 3 Years (Career Story)

Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic