Building Engineering Teams with Tramale Turner

With a few impressive exceptions, software is rarely written by one person.  It takes a team and as that team outgrows a single shared office, coordination and communication become emergent problems.  There are lots of lessons to be learned from companies that have already found approaches that scale.

In this episode, I interview Tramale Turner, Head of Engineering, Traffic, and Seattle Site Lead at Stripe.  We discuss infrastructure, organizational structure, and some insights made at Stripe.  It’s an in-depth conversation with useful advice for all stages of the journey of a modern software engineer.

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