Beyond Coding

By Patrick Akil

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Episodes: 251

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For software engineers ready to level up. Learn from CTOs, principal engineers, and tech leaders about the skills beyond coding: from technical mastery to product thinking and career growth. Created by Patrick Akil

Episode Date
Most Replayed Moments: What Elite Software Engineers Do Differently
May 20, 2026
Special Q&A: What Separates Cracked Engineers From Everyone Else Today
May 06, 2026
Microsoft Trainer: The AI Engineering Fundamentals To Succeed As Software Engineer
Apr 29, 2026
Open Source Expert: The Best Engineers Don't Apply For Jobs
Apr 22, 2026
Software Expert: This Is How You Design Systems That Survive
Apr 15, 2026
Top Microsoft Advisor: "Coding Is Cheap, Software Is Expensive." You're Focused on the Wrong Thing
Apr 08, 2026
AI Expert: Most Software Engineers Aren't Ready for What's Coming
Apr 01, 2026
Ian Miell: If You've Been At The Same Company 3+ Years, You're Already In A Box
Mar 25, 2026
Hands-On Coding Architect: Don't Let Complexity Kill Your Codebase
Mar 18, 2026
Uber Engineering Manager: Why Clarity Beats Seniority
Mar 11, 2026
Lead Software Engineer: Why You Can Write the Code in a Day but Ship in a Month
Mar 04, 2026
How Senior Software Engineers Balance Speed and Quality (Scale-Up Lessons)
Feb 25, 2026
How to Think About Software Engineering (CTO's Perspective)
Feb 18, 2026
How to Build the Best Platforms for Software Engineers
Feb 11, 2026
Career Advice I'd Give Every Software Engineer Right Now
Feb 04, 2026
The Skills That Matter When AI Writes Your Code
Jan 28, 2026
Google & AWS Veteran: How To Become a Great Software Architect
Jan 21, 2026
Own Your Engineering Career (No One Else Will)
Jan 14, 2026
The AI Skills Software Engineers Need to Learn Now
Jan 07, 2026
Why Mediocre Engineers Get Promoted Over Great Ones (CEO Explains)
Dec 31, 2025
How to Build Skills That Outlast Any Tool (From Data Analyst to AI Lead)
Dec 24, 2025
Why Coding Skills Won’t Get You To Staff Engineer
Dec 17, 2025
Forward Deployed Engineer: The Role Up 800% (And How to Get It)
Dec 10, 2025
AI Won't Replace Software Engineers, But This Might (CEO Perspective)
Dec 03, 2025
How We Get More Done with Fewer Engineers
Nov 26, 2025
GitHub Senior Engineer: How to Think About System Design
Nov 19, 2025
From Backend Engineer to Head of Mobile (Lessons from Uber)
Nov 12, 2025
How to Stay Relevant in Tech (25+ Years of Lessons)
Nov 05, 2025
Promotions, Salary & Leadership: I Answer Your Toughest Tech Career Questions
Oct 29, 2025
What Separates Good Engineers from Great Ones
Oct 22, 2025
From 6 Engineers to 2: Why Product and Engineering Are Merging
Oct 15, 2025
How Hackathons Make You a Better Software Engineer
Oct 08, 2025
AI Startup CEO Reveals What Really Kills AI Projects
Oct 01, 2025
The Graph Problem Most Developers Don't Know They Have
Sep 25, 2025
How Deepfakes are Evolving (And What You NEED to Know)
Sep 17, 2025
From Pixels to Tokens: UX Is Not Enough Anymore
Sep 10, 2025
Stop Hiring Junior Engineers Because of AI?
Sep 03, 2025
How to Master Software Engineering (From Junior to Architect)
Aug 27, 2025
The Simple Daily Habit That Unlocks Your Productivity
Aug 20, 2025
Principal Software Engineer: Democracy at Work is Overrated
Aug 13, 2025
How to Get a Remote or International Tech Job (Complete Guide)
Aug 06, 2025
Tech Founder: From 0 to 15 Million Users. Here's What We Learned
Jul 31, 2025
Software Engineering Went From Hacker Culture to...
Jul 24, 2025
Search Is In Everything You Build (And You Probably Don't Know It)
Jul 16, 2025
Inside VEED’s AI Product Strategy: Speed, Scale, and User Feedback with Samuel Beek
Jul 09, 2025
From AI Hype to Real-World Results! Getting AI into Production with Sohrab Hosseini
Jul 04, 2025
Why We're Excited About React Compiler (React Compiler Explained) with Lydia Hallie
Jun 25, 2025
AI in Software Engineering: Productivity, Pitfalls, and Practical Advice with Stacy Cashmore
Jun 18, 2025
The Identity Crisis of Software Engineers in the Age of AI with Borislav Nikolov & Rares Mirica
Jun 11, 2025
Can AI Really Replace Human Customer Support?
Jun 04, 2025
Leadership, Burnout & Building Global Teams with Ray Bogman
May 14, 2025
What is Vibe Coding? The New Way Developers Build Software with Zowie Langdon
May 07, 2025
Public Speaking, Networking & the Role of Architects with Bert-Jan Schrijver
May 01, 2025
Rust, Game Development & Career Growth with Stephan Dilly
Apr 23, 2025
Why Your Org Chart is Breaking Your Software
Mar 16, 2025
How to Stay Ahead as a Software Engineer - No Matter What Changes!
Mar 05, 2025
How Elite Developers Think Differently (And How You Can Too)
Feb 26, 2025
Breaking Into Tech Changed Everything. This Is Why | With Ornella Friggit-Konaté
Feb 20, 2025
Tech Leadership Hiring Secrets for Career Growth and Balance with John Müller
Feb 12, 2025
Bob van Luijt's Lessons from Scaling Weaviate: Startup Growth & Hiring
Feb 05, 2025
Testing at Scale: What Every Developer Needs to Know with Maurício Aniche
Jan 30, 2025
Copilot Will Change How You Work Forever. Here's Why with Femke Cornelissen
Jan 22, 2025
Why Some Engineers Rise to Leadership - And Others Don’t with Marcel de Vries
Jan 15, 2025
When to use Kubernetes and Internal Developer Platforms with Mojtaba Imani
Jan 08, 2025
App Development with Kotlin Multiplatform with Abdullah Zaiter & Urs Peter
Jan 01, 2025
From Open Source to SaaS Company with Henric Trotzig
Dec 25, 2024
AI in Product with Bandan Jot Singh
Dec 20, 2024
Web Development with Next.js and Vercel
Dec 04, 2024
How Software Engineering is Evolving with Borislav Nikolov
Nov 13, 2024
Working at Startups vs in Big Tech with Willem Spruijt
Nov 06, 2024
Job Titles and Tech Career Progression with Alexandra Vargas
Oct 30, 2024
Tech Trends and Web Development with Lydia Hallie
Oct 23, 2024
My Partner keeps getting Fired
Oct 17, 2024
Individual Contributor and Technical Leadership with Rares Mirica
Oct 09, 2024
AI Product Development and Startups with Nick Gushchin
Oct 02, 2024
Transferable Skills in Software Engineering with Carlos Kelkboom
Sep 25, 2024
The Engineering Manager Mindset with Anas Salman
Sep 18, 2024
Measuring Engineering Productivity with Walter de Bruijn
Sep 11, 2024
Cloud Native Engineering and DevOps with Mischa van den Burg
Sep 04, 2024
QA in Software Engineering with Augustine Uzokwe
Aug 28, 2024
Peer to Peer Technology with Pear and Keet by Holepunch with David Mark Clements
Aug 21, 2024
Q&A #10: Personal Branding and Content Creation with Patrick Akil
Aug 14, 2024
From Contributions to Career: Leo Kettmeir's Path to Deno
Aug 07, 2024
Web5 and The Future of Web Development with Adewale (Ace) Abati
Jul 31, 2024
Building Products for Growth at VEED.IO with Willem Evers
Jul 24, 2024
HackYourFuture and Software Education with Stas Seldin & Utku K.
Jul 17, 2024
High Quality Software Development with Eugene Fidelin
Jul 10, 2024
Developing People with Ester Le Roux
Jul 03, 2024
Q&A #9: Junior Developer Career Advice and Disruptive Tech with Patrick Akil
Jun 26, 2024
When to start Freelancing with Andrea Giardini
Jun 19, 2024
Effective Product Development Teams with Anne Kooijman
Jun 12, 2024
Software Development and Sustainability with Brendan Kamp
Jun 05, 2024
AI in Software Development with Roy Derks
May 29, 2024
Senior Software Engineers and LeetCode With Ilya Pimenov
May 22, 2024
Strategic Empathy in Leadership with Josine Muurling & Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg-Mestwerdt
May 15, 2024
From Bullsh*t Management to Product Management with David Pereira
May 08, 2024
Curiosity at Work: Coaching for Team Joy with Monika F. de Waal
May 01, 2024
Performance Reviews in Tech with Rustam Alashrafov & Jethro Sloan
Apr 24, 2024
Q&A #8: Salary Negotiations, Remote Working Abroad, Managing Time & More with Patrick Akil
Apr 17, 2024
Software Blueprints: Standardizing for Success with Anthony Alaribe
Apr 10, 2024
Job Seeking in Tech: Strategies to Open Career Doors with Keki Mwaba
Apr 03, 2024
Design-Development Collaboration with Yonatan Ziv
Mar 27, 2024
Mature Software Delivery with Elias Nogueira
Mar 20, 2024
More Features Will Kill Your Product with Maarten Dalmijn
Mar 13, 2024
Insights from App Development to Content Creation with Lucas Montano
Mar 06, 2024
The Lifecycle of Tech Startup Investing with Christina Caljé
Feb 28, 2024
Fail Forward: From Startup Failure to YouTube Triumph with Arjan Egges
Feb 21, 2024
Quality Code, Safer World: Rethinking Security in Software Development with Jelle Niemantsverdriet
Feb 14, 2024
How to be a Great Product and People Manager with Roman Arcea
Feb 07, 2024
Starting a Career in Data Science with Massimiliano Ungheretti
Jan 31, 2024
Developer Productivity, Platform Engineering & Architecture with Dennis van de Laar
Jan 24, 2024
End User Computing and Working at Silicon Valley Startups with Ruben Spruijt
Jan 17, 2024
Saving Lives Through Technology with Dr. Cara Antoine
Jan 10, 2024
Q&A #7: 2024 Tech Trends, Managing Conflict, Gaining Respect & More with Patrick Akil
Jan 03, 2024
How to work with Anyone with Julia Sullivan
Dec 27, 2023
Tech Founder Decisions and Challenges with Malcolm Matalka
Dec 20, 2023
ChatGPT and Generative AI solutions at TomTom with Yu Guo
Dec 13, 2023
Product Trends, Decisions and Domains with Bandan Jot Singh
Dec 06, 2023
Leadership, Strategy and Transparency with Keeya Wang-Jones
Nov 29, 2023
Influence, Confidence and Empowering Others with Francisca Dias
Nov 22, 2023
From Tech Lead to CEO with Mahdi Fanidisfani
Nov 15, 2023
Q&A #6: Deadlines, Imposter Syndrome and Burnout Symptoms & More with Patrick Akil
Nov 08, 2023
Agile Coaching and Organisational Problems with Tom Siebeneicher
Nov 01, 2023
Life Altering Events and Personal Growth with Joseph Muli
Oct 25, 2023
From Software Engineer to Engineering Manager with Michael Doye
Oct 18, 2023
Elegant Code and How Things Work with Andrew Snare
Oct 11, 2023
Remote First Company Culture with Marleen Kappert & Sebastiaan Bekker
Oct 04, 2023
Personal Values, Creative Entrepreneurship and Process with Lindsay Faller
Sep 27, 2023
Generative AI, LLM Implementations and Challenges with Rens Dimmendaal
Sep 20, 2023
Working from Anywhere, Goals, Impact and Freelancing with Eva Zahrawi Ruiz
Sep 13, 2023
Mentorship, Design and Creative Engineers with Alyona Volkova
Sep 06, 2023
Q&A #5: How to be a Great Senior Software Engineer & More with Patrick Akil
Aug 30, 2023
Changing Consumer Behaviour with Georges de Boeck
Aug 23, 2023
How to Innovate through Software with Carlos Kelkboom
Aug 16, 2023
Developer Advocacy, Burnout Recovery and Communities with Lian Li
Aug 08, 2023
How to Learn Through Content Creation with Raphael de Lio
Aug 02, 2023
Open Source, Meetups and Developer Relations with Alessandro Vozza
Jul 26, 2023
Codam College: Free High Quality Education with Victoria Ous and David Giron
Jul 19, 2023
What makes a Great Team Lead with Rustam Alashrafov
Jul 12, 2023
How to be a Great Public Speaker with Sabyasachi Sengupta
Jul 05, 2023
Learning, Open Source Communities and Systems with William Rizzo
Jun 28, 2023
Programming languages, Work Cultures Abroad and finding Joy with Abdullah Zaiter
Jun 21, 2023
How to Change and Improve Organisations with Nilguin van Raad
Jun 14, 2023
Serverless, Microservices, Software Architecture and Food 😋 with Yan Cui
Jun 07, 2023
Q&A #4: Passion, Day in the Life, YouTube and Patrick’s NYC trip & More with Patrick Akil
May 31, 2023
Hackathon Awesomeness, Career Benefits and Culture with Sashrika Kaur
May 24, 2023
Blogging, Teaching and Sharing Knowledge with Andrew Duthie
May 17, 2023
How to Build a Product Company with Andreas Prins
May 10, 2023
Insecurities, Judgement, Behaviour and Self-Care with Alex Østergaard
May 03, 2023
High Performance Mindset with Reiner Kraft
Apr 26, 2023
Q&A #3: Personal Development, Podcast Goals & More with Patrick Akil
Apr 19, 2023
Changing Culture, Career Insights and Outcomes with Jason Lengstorf
Apr 12, 2023
Main vs. Side Hustle, Work Ethic and Leveling Up with Vanessa Sanyauke
Apr 05, 2023
ChatGPT, Research vs. Experience and Teamwork with Forrest Knight
Mar 29, 2023
Personal Development, Goals and Career with Milan Milanović
Mar 22, 2023
Data Analytics, Building a Product and Big Data with Alex Freberg
Mar 15, 2023
Changing Careers, Listening and Podcasting with Bart Farrell
Mar 08, 2023
Platform Engineering & Platform as a Product with Luca Galante
Mar 01, 2023
Knowledge Sharing through Writing with Luca Rossi
Feb 22, 2023
Ethics, Values, and Layoffs in Big Tech with Dorothea Baur
Feb 15, 2023
Kubernetes, DevOps and SRE the right way with Nana Janashia
Feb 08, 2023
Q&A #2: First Job Advice & Tips and Skills vs. Degree & More with Patrick Akil
Feb 01, 2023
A Career as Manager with Wim den Besten
Jan 25, 2023
Rememberable Presentations and Personal Branding with Sabine Wojcieszak
Jan 18, 2023
Job vs. Career, Content Creation & Motivation with James Q Quick
Jan 11, 2023
SexTech Startup with Emilie Wiersma
Jan 04, 2023
Dedicated Teams, Autonomy and Effectiveness with Serge Beaumont
Dec 28, 2022
Open Core, Pricing and AI product development with Dat Tran
Dec 21, 2022
A Career as Tech Lead or Engineering Manager with Patrick Kua
Dec 14, 2022
Diversity, Inclusion and Work Culture in Asia with Priska Burkard
Dec 07, 2022
Mental Health Problems and Conference Talks with Stacy Cashmore
Nov 30, 2022
Q&A #1: Podcasting, Tech Layoffs and First Job as Developer & More with Patrick Akil
Nov 23, 2022
Product, Relationships and Teamwork with Chiedza Muguti
Nov 16, 2022
Coaching, Listening and Leadership with Sumit Gupta
Nov 09, 2022
Tech Startups, SaaS and Funding with Denise Edwards
Nov 02, 2022
From Ideas to Games and Products with Rosemary Lokhorst
Oct 26, 2022
Falling in Love with Web Development with Kyle Cook from Web Dev Simplified
Oct 19, 2022
Empowering and Enabling People, what Great Managers do with Nick van Meeteren
Oct 12, 2022
Cloud Security Podcast behind the scenes with Shilpi Bhattacharjee & Ashish Rajan
Oct 05, 2022
Public Speaking in Tech with Neil Thompson
Sep 28, 2022
Recruiting Tech Talent with Chase Kocher
Sep 21, 2022
Happiness and Self Improvement with Ken Jee
Sep 14, 2022
Becoming Great at CSS with Kevin Powell
Sep 07, 2022
Habits, Decentralisation and Decentralised Systems with Merlijn Boogerd
Aug 31, 2022
Resiliency, Adaptability and Cyber Security with Nyota Gordon
Aug 24, 2022
Tech Leadership with Ariel Weinberger
Aug 17, 2022
Career Progression and Growth with Jeff Perry
Aug 10, 2022
Decision Making, Slowing down Time and Storytelling with Gilbert Eijkelenboom
Aug 03, 2022
Leadership and Finding your Passion with Stephanie Wong
Jul 27, 2022
Self-Worth, Salary and Mindset with Tobi Oluwole
Jul 20, 2022
Hackathons, Startups and Data Science with Krish Naik
Jul 13, 2022
Empathy Driven Software Development with Andrea Goulet
Jul 06, 2022
Effective Software Teams with Daniel Terhorst-North
Jun 29, 2022
Visual learning and Developer Advocacy with Priyanka Vergadia
Jun 22, 2022
Thinking Styles with Indi Young
Jun 15, 2022
Switching Careers to Software Engineering with Anna McDougall
Jun 08, 2022
Learning Software Development with Hitesh Choudhary
Jun 01, 2022
An Intro to the Metaverse with Jieke Pan
May 25, 2022
Collaborative Modelling with Marco Heimeshoff
May 18, 2022
Co-creating with UX and Software with Thamar Swart and Simone de Gijt
May 11, 2022
Social systems in Tech Teams with Michael Feathers
May 04, 2022
The power of Go with Hannes De Jager, Kevin van den Broek and Goos van den Bekerom
Apr 27, 2022
Systems Thinking with Diana Montalion
Apr 20, 2022
The Power of Open Source with Paulo Lopes and Maarten Mulders
Apr 13, 2022
AI in the city of Amsterdam with Maarten Sukel
Apr 06, 2022
Effective Data Science Solutions with Deena Gergis
Mar 30, 2022
Cloud Native Software Development with Léon Rodenburg
Mar 23, 2022
Creating your Own Programming Language with Felienne Hermans
Mar 16, 2022
Worthwhile Agile Implementations with Laurens Bonnema
Mar 09, 2022
Remote Company Culture with Alvaro Moya
Mar 02, 2022
Developer Advocacy and Content Creation with Nicolai Parlog
Feb 23, 2022
AI bias and Diversity in Tech with Kaya Weers
Feb 16, 2022
Landing your First Job in Tech with Pamela Juachon & Katherina Darellas
Feb 09, 2022
Product Lines in Software with Rachel Appel
Feb 02, 2022
How Software keeps Evolving and is never Done with Jessica Kerr
Jan 26, 2022
Cloud Financial Management - FinOps with Michel Zitman
Jan 19, 2022
Improving the Engineering Experience with Hassan Habib
Jan 12, 2022
Speed vs Quality in Software Development with Albert Brand
Jan 05, 2022
Making Developers more Effective with Marcelo Sousa
Dec 29, 2021
Psychological Safety with Gitte Klitgaard
Dec 22, 2021
A Career in Coding with Johan Janssen
Dec 15, 2021
Modular Software Development with Andre Borgonovo
Dec 08, 2021
The MLOps mindset with Roman Ivanov and Julian de Ruiter
Dec 01, 2021
The power of Kotlin with Paulien van Alst and Urs Peter
Nov 24, 2021
The Benefits of Co-Creation with Dragan Stepanović
Nov 17, 2021
How to become a 10x Engineer with Chris Laffra
Nov 10, 2021
Self-taught Software Engineers with Roy Derks
Nov 03, 2021
Mentorship in Tech with Anand Safi
Oct 27, 2021
Migrating to the Cloud at bol.com with Mirko van Ede and Rogier Lommers
Oct 20, 2021
The Software Developer Community with Brian Vermeer
Oct 13, 2021
Growing an Idea into a Product with Erwin de Gier
Oct 06, 2021
How to become a great Tech Lead with Mahdi Fanidisfani
Sep 29, 2021
Personal Risk and Online Security with Jeroen Willemsen and Nanne Baars
Sep 22, 2021
How to be a good leader in tech Robby Coelho
Sep 15, 2021
Going the extra mile with Juan Manuel Perafan
Sep 08, 2021
What it takes to be great at Sales with Richard Kelsey
Sep 01, 2021
The next big disruption in tech and software with Kevlin Henney
Aug 25, 2021
The importance of communication and teamwork at global scale with Rein Droog
Aug 18, 2021
Quality in Software Engineering with Dennis Doomen
Aug 11, 2021
Key Takeaways From working at a Startup with Jethro Sloan
Aug 04, 2021
Building a life sized rocket with Dennis Meelis
Jul 28, 2021
Solving problems without writing code with Evelyn van Kelle
Jul 21, 2021
Helping organizations solve the underlying problems with Alex Thissen
Jul 14, 2021
Fixing the biggest problems in software development with Gareth Baars
Jul 07, 2021
Domain Driven Design with Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Jun 30, 2021
Crypto startup journey and move to BUX Crypto with Zowie Langdon
Jun 23, 2021
Skills needed to be a great modern-day CTO with João Rosa
Jun 16, 2021
Moving countries and starting a new job during the pandemic with Dillon Parfitt
Jun 09, 2021
Moving software applications to China with Léon Rodenburg
Jun 02, 2021
Mental health and IT leadership with Serge Beaumont
May 26, 2021
Taking the time to share knowledge with Urs Peter
May 19, 2021