Navigating from individual AI adoption to team-level transformation while scaling w/ Jakub Oleksy #268
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Navigating from individual AI adoption to team-level transformation while scaling w/ Jakub Oleksy #268

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202650 min

Jakub Oleksy, SVP of Software Engineering @ Github, joins the podcast to discuss how Github is addressing some of the biggest challenges facing the industry when it comes to infrastructure scaling, customer capacity, and using AI to add value to your org’s processes and eng leaders’ decision-making. He shares how scaling looked different at Github six years vs. today, how they navigated the migration to Azure, and what AI transformation looks like individually & at the team level. Jakub also discusses insights for eng leaders when it comes to investing in yourself & your people and making cross-functional decisions. <h2...

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