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ShipTalk is the podcast series on the ins, outs, ups, and downs of software delivery. This series dives into the vast ocean Software Delivery, bringing aboard industry tech leaders, seasoned engineers, and insightful customers to navigate through the currents of the ever-evolving software landscape. Each session explores the real-world challenges and victories encountered by today’s tech innovators. Whether you’re an Engineering Manager, Software Engineer, or an enthusiast in Software delivery is your interest, you’ll gain invaluable insights, and equip yourself with the knowledge to sail through the complex waters of software delivery.Our seasoned guests are here to sha...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
ShipTalk turns AI-era delivery questions into grounded discussions of code review, authorization, security, and the teams responsible for making them work.
ShipTalk treats software delivery as an organizational system whose bottlenecks move whenever the tools do. Devan Ahmed and other interviewers begin with a guest's path into the work, then press toward implementation: how AI code review changes collaboration, how training data…
Code review's awkward human bottleneck meets an AI referee, if that is your kind of release drama.
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A plainspoken account of toil, scale, and the decision to build against it.
Ship Talk closes season three on a clear note, with Puneet Saraswat, Harness's VP of Engineering, reflecting on a path that runs from Azure's Application Gateway team to the operational friction that later made Harness feel necessary.
RAG is treated like engineering, not magic.
This episode follows Evgeny Ilinykh from .NET engineer to SAP business consultant to Tesla and GuidedMind.ai, and that path gives the discussion its core interest: RAG as a way to make AI less of a black box.
A practical look at how AI changes productivity, measurement, and pull request flow.
Ship Talk frames a practical exchange between Dewan Ahmed and Adib Waliwullah, who leads developer productivity and efficiency at Harness. Adib challenges the easy idea that AI adoption automatically lifts output, leaning on DORA findings to show that context decides whether AI…
A grounded 2026 AI-and-security talk that uses sports rules to make a clear point about trust, speed, and control.
Nick Durkin frames the 2026 predictions discussion around a simple systems idea: software teams move faster when they are working from the same rule book.
A grounded look at shipping AI and security ideas into real use.
Ship Talk uses a shared IBM connection as the backdrop for a practical talk about AI, security, and the move from research to real use. Fatih Pulat keeps returning to execution: the gap between ideas sitting in papers, slides, or Word documents and the work required to put them…
A practical look at shipping fast without pretending reliability is free.
ShipTalk gets practical fast, using Kyle Galbraith's path into French as a route into how depot.dev ships software. The strongest stretch is the one that stays close to the work: rapid delivery, stability checks, rollback speed, and feature flags are treated as choices, not…
A candid conversation about DevRel as a bridge between engineers, product teams, and developers.
Ship Talk treats Brendan O'Leary's path into developer relations as a practical career story rather than a tidy origin myth. He expected traditional IT, spent time at a small bootstrapped medical software company and other bootstrapped companies, then joined GitLab in 2017 when…
Practical AI here means better data, safety checks, and discipline around shipping.
Ship Talk treats practical AI as something teams have to deliver, not just discuss. Marina Petzl, Senior ML Engineer and AI Productivity Lead at Autodesk, keeps the focus on customer-facing ML, data curation, safety checks, and the plain fact that stronger inputs often matter…
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Discussion on ai & code generation with industry expert.
An episode of ShipTalk featuring valuable discussion and insights.
Lucas Gentile, co-founder and CEO of Loft, discusses his entrepreneurial journey and how vCluster virtualizes Kubernetes to improve efficiency and developer experience.
Devon Hamid opens Ship Talk with Fatih Pulat, an AI architect at Microsoft working where cloud, security, and AI meet.
ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Delivery speaks with Evgeny Ilinykh, former Tesla software engineering manager and founder of GuidedMind.ai, about why he sees AI retrieval as the real bottleneck.
Ship Talk host Devon Ahmed interviews Nathen Harvey, Google Cloud’s DORA lead, about software delivery performance, developer experience, SRE, and AI adoption.
Devon Ahmed hosts ShipTalk and talks with Harness Field CTO Nick Durkin about 2026 predictions for AI in software delivery.
ShipTalk episode four of season four features Dewan Ahmed interviewing Adib Valiulla, who leads developer productivity and efficiency at Harness and says he started at Sensomatic with a whiteboard experiment in 2016.
Puneet Saraswat, VP of Engineering at Harness, traces his path from a seventh- or eighth-grade computer lab in UP, India, to Windows kernel work at Microsoft and then to building deployment tooling at Harness.
Nick Acton opens Ship Talk with Ron Gidron of Xtype on DevOps trouble inside the ServiceNow ecosystem.
In this episode of ShipTalk, host Devan interviews Alex Olivier, co-founder of Servos.dev, about authorization in DevOps.
Marina Petzl, a Senior ML Engineer at Autodesk, discusses practical AI applications, including her work on automating CAD workflows with machine learning.
Chinmay Gaikwad hosts Aravind Putrevu for a conversation that begins with Aravind’s background and his work helping developers.
Dewan Ahmed opens with Brendan O'Leary's path into software.
Host Devan Ahmed interviews Vishwa Krishnakumar, co-founder of ZenDuty, about managing stress as a startup founder and the importance of physical and mental fitness in tech culture.
Host Robbie interviews Ken Aarons, CEO of SpeedScale, about his career in observability and software delivery.
Host Devon Ahmed interviews Matt Anger, a senior staff engineer at DoorDash, about his journey into tech and software delivery challenges.
Host Jim Hirschhauer interviews Scott Lee about his IT career and home automation hobby on a DevOps-focused podcast.
Host Jim Hirschauer interviews Adrian Cockcroft about his career in SRE and cloud computing, with a fun segment on hobbies.
An interview with an engineering manager discussing his background from microbiology to Java engineering and software delivery.
Ravi Lakhman interviews Nidhi Alparam about her role leading the Enterprise DevOps Platform Team at Nationwide Insurance, discussing tools and best practices.