Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast

The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.

After each episode, you’ll walk away with pragmatic approaches you can use to build stuff – whether you are a software engineer, or a manager of engineers.

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A few episodes from The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast

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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast

Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.

Listen to it on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, or on the web.

The Software Engineer's Guidebook

I wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Here is what Tanya Reilly, senior principal engineer and author of The Staff Engineer's Path says about it:

"From performance reviews to P95 latency, from team dynamics to testing, Gergely demystifies all aspects of a software career. This book is well named: it really does feel like the missing guidebook for the whole industry."

The Software Engineer's Guidebook

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Annual conference talk

I do up to two conference talks per year. My next ones will be at at WAWTech in Warsaw, on 16-17 December 2025, and at Craft Conference in Budapest, on 29-30 May 2025, and Previous talks:

Gergely Orosz

Writing The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Previously at Uber, Microsoft, Skype, Skyscanner.

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