alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

Tobias Schlottke - alphalist CTO Podcast

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Episodes 139

Avg. Duration 55m

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Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (6)

Since May 2020

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks

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Episodic

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35%

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alphalist.podigee.io

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About This Podcast

This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architecture, etc.) to management (e.g. scaling, structuring teams, mentoring, technical recruiting, product etc.). Guests from leading tech companies share their best practices and knowledge. The goal is to support other CTOs on their journey through tech and engineering, inspire and allow a sneak-peek into other successful companies to understand how they think and act. Get awesome insights into the world‘s top tech companies, personalities with this podcast brought to you by Tobias Schlottke.

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Recent Episodes

#139 Your Future Job Is a Decision Inbox — Max Deichmann Built the Layer That Gets You There // Co-Founder @ Langfuse

Jun 04, 2026 1h 3m Transcript

Max Deichmann built Langfuse — the open-source LLM engineering platform acquired by ClickHouse — and explains why the engineer of the future isn't writing code, they're reviewing what agents did…

#138 From Hacker News to W3C: How One Amazon Engineer Accidentally Shaped the Future of AI Browsers // Alex Nahas, MCP-B

May 21, 2026 41m

How a browser-based fix for an enterprise auth problem became a W3C web standard and what it means for how AI agents will interact with the web. Alex Nahas, founder of MCP-B and initiator of the…

#137 - Only Three Search Engines Left Standing: One of Them Powers Your AI with JP Schmetz // Chief of Ads @ Brave

May 07, 2026 1h 33m

Thirty years building search infrastructure — and why the AI industry quietly depends on it. SHOW NOTES Jean-Paul Schmetz has been close to search infrastructure for nearly three decades — as founder…

#136 - AI Writes Code: Who Architects the Consequences? with Neal Ford // Software Architect & Author

Apr 23, 2026 56m

Fitness functions, agentic guardrails, and why experienced architects matter more than ever in the AI era Show Notes: Neal Ford has spent decades thinking about how software systems hold together…

#135 - From Legacy to Innovation: Yahoo's Modernization & AI with Lee Zen // CTO @ Yahoo

Jan 29, 2026 37m Transcript

Modernizing Yahoo in the private-equity era: legacy constraints, shipping velocity, and AI-native consumer products Yahoo is far more than a nostalgia brand—it’s a broad consumer platform operating…

#134 - From Inner to Outer Loop: Agentic Coding, Stacking PRs, and the Cursor Merger with Greg Foster // CTO @ Graphite

Jan 15, 2026 54m Transcript

Solving the "Outer Loop" bottleneck: Agentic coding, Stacked PRs, and the future of the CTO role with Graphite's Greg Foster The "Inner Loop" of coding (typing syntax) has been solved by AI. The new…

#133 - Build the Learning Machine: AI Adoption, Flow Metrics, and the Future of the CTO Role with Eric Bowman

Dec 15, 2025 57m

From “dangerously skip permissions” to the Andon cord: voluntary adoption, flow metrics, and how agents change what CTOs optimize for Partner Tradegate Direct: Europe’s most direct online broker –…

#132 - Clarity Over Tooling: Velocity & Building Teams Without Drama with Loïc Houssier // CTO @ Superhuman Mail

Nov 27, 2025 54m Transcript

From acquisition carve-outs to 100ms interaction rules: Engineering velocity through team clarity, not tool proliferation Partner TOPdesk: Discover the future of internal IT in the DACH region with…

#131 - AI Product Strategy: When to Build and When to Wait with Matthias Keller // CPO @ Kayak

Nov 13, 2025 51m Transcript

From Alexa to LLMs: Platform experiments, distribution challenges, and how AI is democratizing feature development in travel tech Tradegate Direct: Europe's most direct online broker – trade for…

#130 - From PhD Research to DuckDB: Building the Next Generation of Analytical DBs with Mark Raasveldt // CTO @ DuckDB

Oct 16, 2025 53m Transcript

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#129 - $32B Lessons: Building CTO Teams, Rapid Innovation, and Staying Customer-Connected with Solal Raveh

Sep 18, 2025 48m Transcript

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#128 - From Tickets to Problems: Klaus Breyer // Head of Product & Technology @ Edding

Sep 04, 2025 55m Transcript

From assembly lines to problem-solving teams: practical strategies for breaking development silos Here's the thing about agile transformations: they almost never work the way they're supposed to.…

#127 - Kelsey Hightower's Unfiltered Truths: 25 Years of Infrastructure, DevOps, and Retiring at 42

Aug 07, 2025 1h Transcript

Unfiltered lessons on infrastructure, career strategy, and the art of knowing when to stop. What does 25 years in tech teach you? Kelsey Hightower, a self-taught engineer who rose to become a…

#126 - AI Transformation at Scale: Practical Adoption Across 150+ Engineers with Peter Gostev // Head of AI @ Moonpig

Jul 24, 2025 1h 5m Transcript

Navigating AI hype versus implementation reality in large engineering organizations The AI transformation challenge isn't just technical—it's organizational. Peter Gostev, Head of AI at Moonpig,…

#125 - Two CTO Dinosaurs vs. Today's Tech Hype with Raz Shuty // CTO @ auxmoney

Jul 10, 2025 1h 3m Transcript

Unfiltered insights on microservices myths, cloud cost reality, and pragmatic technical leadership Two veteran CTOs tear down today's tech hype with brutal honesty and hard-won experience. Raz…

#124 - The Path to AGI: Inside poolside’s AI Model Factory for Code with Eiso Kant

Jun 27, 2025 1h 3m Transcript

Building Human-Level AI for Code: Model Factories, RL at Scale, and Distributed Teams Technical Deep Dives: Poolside’s model factory: end-to-end automation from raw data to production models Scaling…

#123 - From Nokia to AI-IoT: Engineering the Physical World with Bernd Groß // CEO @ Cumulocity

Jun 12, 2025 1h 3m Transcript

Bridging operational technology and cloud architecture for industrial-scale systems The convergence of AI and IoT is reshaping how technical leaders approach industrial systems architecture. Bernd…

#122 - Grid Control in Milliseconds: Engineering Energy Systems with Barbara Wittenberg // CTO @ 1KOMMA5°

May 16, 2025 1h 1m Transcript

Real-time system architecture lessons from the edge of the energy transition Technical infrastructure enables the modern energy transition. Barbara Wittenberg, CTO at 1KOMMA5°, reveals the…

#121 - Canva's Playbook: Scaling Teams, Tech, and AI with Adam Schuck // Senior Engineering Director @ Canva

May 01, 2025 1h 1m Transcript

Insights into hypergrowth, late-stage career frameworks, AI adoption, and the tech powering Canva's collaborative editor. In this episode, Tobi chats with Adam Schuck, Senior Engineering Director at…

#120 - AI's Singularity & Commoditization: Navigating Hype vs. Reality with Georg Zoeller // Co-Founder @ C4AIL

Apr 17, 2025 1h 13m Transcript

Debunking AI hype, exploring security risks, and strategies for CTOs in the age of rapid change. In this episode, Tobi talks with Georg Zoeller, Co-Founder of the Centre for AI Leadership and…

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