Code of Leadership

Leading a Team with AI — Dmitry Tverdokhlebov

Dmitry Tverdokhlebov on AI pilots, shared memory at Omnius.team, hiring independent engineers, and selecting working solutions through talant.club.

Code, Cars, Insurance: What a CTO Must Relearn — Fyodor Sukharev

Fyodor Sukharev on moving between industries: Orange, OTC.ru, Arrival, and QIC, technology economics, feature maturity, and requirements management.

CTO Freedom in Startups and Corporations with Kirill Evseenko

Kirill Evseenko on CTO freedom: scaling START, joining Zvuk, decision authority, technology economics, engineering careers, and accountability for change.

The First 90 Days as CTO

A practical model for stepping into a CTO role: choosing the problem, making a mutual contract, diagnosing the company, placing the first systemic bets, and spotting red flags.

Product Engineer: How the Programmer's Role Will Change in the Next Three Years

How agentic development changes the engineer's role, team size, product discovery, junior training, and ownership of outcomes.

How Can Mid-Sized Businesses Adopt AI Without Big-Business Budgets?

How mid-sized businesses can choose a first AI use case, prepare data and people, calculate the real entry cost, and avoid creating another abandoned platform.

The Junior Engineer After Code: Growing Engineers When Agents Do the Implementation

A solo episode on hiring and growing junior engineers when AI agents accelerate the artifact but cannot replace understanding, verification, and ownership.

The Last 90 Days at a Company

A solo talk on diagnosing a career transition, testing internal mobility, choosing the next role, and handing over responsibility without gaps.

What Remains Scarce When Code Becomes Cheap?

Sergey Berezhnoy on BEM, developer relations, matrix leadership, Staff+ influence, AI agents, and the skills that remain scarce as code gets cheaper.

Subscriber AMA: Reading, Career, Side Projects, and AI Development

A long-form subscriber AMA on reading and personal knowledge systems, System Design Space, side projects, career transitions, accountability for AI-generated code, agentic development economics, and AGI/ASI scenarios.

How to Build Your Own Management System

How management changes with scale: end-to-end CTO ownership, efficiency, platforms, and agreements among leaders. Guest: Mikhail Tyurganov.

AI Adoption: It's the Protocol, Not the Model

A third AMA with Aleksey Litvinov on systematic AI adoption, ROI, OpenSpec and Spec Kit, evals, and bounded agent autonomy.

PRD == Evals: How AI Blurs the Product–ML Engineer Boundary

PRD == evals: prototyping, quality evaluation, and the shifting responsibility boundary between product managers and ML engineers. Guest: Albina Munirova.

Digital Team Lead: Can Developer Effectiveness Be Measured from Code?

Can code changes reveal effort, grade, and effectiveness trends, and where must metrics give way to context and managerial judgment?

Multi-Agent: Get the Most Out of One Agent First

A second AMA with Aleksey Litvinov on local models, multi-agent systems, brownfield development, security, evaluations, and AI-assisted engineering economics.

How to Bring GenAI into Operational Work

How to adopt GenAI in support, accounting, marketing, and design through measurable quality, end-to-end economics, workflow redesign, and clear accountability.

Consulting in the AI Era: Beyond Polished Presentations

Consulting in the AI era: problem framing, trust, expertise, prototyping, and accountability for real change. Guest: Alexander Vorontsov.

Harness: A Six-Month Half-Life

AI-Assisted Engineering AMA on agent maturity, verification debt, governance, roles, and hiring in an AI-native organization. Guest: Aleksey Litvinov.

AI-Native: Understanding Can't Be Delegated

How to build AI-native software development around context, specifications, CI/CD, verification debt, and clear responsibility. Guest: Aleksey Litvinov.

AI Products: First Figure Out Whether You Need AI

Code of Leadership conversation about How to Build AI Products. Guest: Daniel Levinishnikov.

Keep It Simple: Steps Without Principles Are a Cargo Cult

Code of Leadership conversation about Keep It Simple: Project Management. Guest: Dmitry Ilenkov.

AI Impact: 90% per Step, 5% per Cycle

Code of Leadership conversation about Measuring the Effectiveness of AI Adoption. Guest: Avenir Voronov.

Vibe Coding: Know What You Want

Code of Leadership conversation about Tech Management and Vibe Coding. Guest: Vladimir Malov.

AI Bubble: It Settles Where Precision Isn't Needed

Code of Leadership conversation about DS & AI. Guest: Pavel Golubev.

Reliability: Never Roll Out to All of Prod at Once

Code of Leadership conversation about System Administration & Databases. Guest: Alexey Gorbov.

Legacy: Facade First, Storage Later

Code of Leadership conversation about Management, Architecture & Reliability. Guest: Alexey Kashin.

Mobile Banking: A Branch in Your Pocket

Code of Leadership conversation about Management and Mobile Development. Guest: Maxim Korobov.

GenAI Security: 99% Is Not Protection

Code of Leadership conversation about Custom Development & Security in Gen AI. Guest: Evgeny Kokuykin.

IC Track: Grow by Scope, Not Headcount

Code of Leadership conversation about Management and IC Track. Guest: Alexander Chernikov.

Conferences: The Talk Is the Product

Code of Leadership conversation about Management & Conferences. Guest: Alexey Fedorov.

Data Platform: Changing Planes Mid-Flight

Code of Leadership conversation about OK, VK, T-Bank and Data Platform. Guest: Sergey Mikhalev.

Car Sharing: Getting Operations in Order

Code of Leadership conversation about Tech Management at CityMobile and CityDrive. Guest: Artem Pulyavin.

Engineering Management: The Bottleneck Is the Organization

Code of Leadership conversation about Engineering Management at Badoo, Lazada, Avito and Yandex Maps. Guest: Anatoly Panov.

Architecture: Quality Attributes First, Trade-offs Later

Code of Leadership conversation about Engineering, Architecture & AdTech. Guest: Daniil Kuleshov.

Platform: An Engineer with a Product Mindset

Code of Leadership conversation about Platform Engineering. Guest: Vladimir Kalugin.

The Road to CTO: Catch the Window of Opportunity

Code of Leadership conversation about Engineering Management with Sergey Rogachev. Guest: Sergey Rogachev.

Engineering Management: An Org Structure for the Moment

Code of Leadership conversation about Engineering Management. Guest: Vladimir Kokhanov.

From Physics to Engineering: Curiosity Pays Off Later

Code of Leadership conversation about Science and Engineering Management. Guest: Andrey Ivanov.

Engineering Manager Career: Delivering Value Through People

Code of Leadership conversation about Career as an Engineering Manager. Guest: Andrey Romanovsky.

T-Investments: Three Years Defending the Broker Idea

Code of Leadership conversation about T Invest and Early Days of T-Bank. Guest: Pavel Permyakov.

Media Platforms: Rebuilding Trust with Small Releases

Code of Leadership conversation about Media Platforms and SDLC. Guest: Vladimir Lazarev.

Social Platforms: Merging Them into One

Code of Leadership conversation about Social Platforms. Guest: Denis Pakhomov.

Origination Platform: Someone Else's Failure Is Your Problem

Code of Leadership conversation about Origination Platform and Reliability. Guest: Dmitry Kotelnikov.

Frontend Reliability: From Alerts to CRO

Code of Leadership conversation about Frontend Architecture and Reliability. Guest: Boris Chernysh.

Analytics and DnD: Boredom as a Signal to Grow

Code of Leadership conversation about Analytics and DnD. Guest: Rodion Reshetov.

Engineering Fundamentals: Algorithms Are Money

Code of Leadership conversation about SDLC. Guest: Evgeny Kozlov.

Technology Strategy: Build It Like a Product

Code of Leadership conversation about Strategy. Guest: Alexander Kiverin.

IDP: Make the Right Path the Easy One

Code of Leadership conversation about IDP: Internal Developer Platform. Guest: Mikhail Trifonov.

X-Sell: Sales Channels Need a Shared Brain

Code of Leadership conversation about Marketing, Sales & X-Sell. Guest: Nikita Burkov.

Hooked: How a Product Becomes a Habit

Hooked · Nir Eyal

Code of Leadership episode about Hooked. Guest: Evgeny (S0eR) Sergeev.

From Developer to Manager: Don't Judge People by Yourself

Code of Leadership conversation about T-Bank and Management Approaches. Guest: Vadim Goncharov.

Think Like a CTO: A Baseline for Small Companies

Think Like a CTO

Code of Leadership episode about Think Like a CTO. Guest: Sasha Shevchenko.

Design in Software Development: It's Not About Graphics

Code of Leadership conversation about Design in Software Development. Guest: Vadim Goncharov.

T-Bank Web: From a Monolith to Independent Blocks

Code of Leadership conversation about Web Development Evolution at T-Bank. Guest: Viktor Firsov.

SRE: Hand On-Call to the Developers

Code of Leadership conversation about SRE Growth and SRE Team. Guest: Salikh Fakhrutdinov.

Group Dynamics: No Authority, Only Approvals

Code of Leadership conversation about Group Dynamics and BART Model. Guest: Anastasiya Kabishcheva.

Databases and Platforms: Logic in the Database Hits the Hiring Ceiling

Code of Leadership conversation about Interview with Konstantin Evteev. Guest: Konstantin Evteev.

From Lead Back to Senior: Rebuilding Influence from Zero

Code of Leadership conversation about Interview with Andrew Marchenko. Guest: Andrey Marchenko.

Data Engineering: From a Rocket Plant to Amazon

Code of Leadership conversation about Data Engineering. Guest: Dmitry Anoshin.

A Philosophy of Software Design: Deep Modules Hide Complexity

A Philosophy of Software Design · John Ousterhout

Code of Leadership episode about A Philosophy of Software Design. Guest: Grigory Skobelev.

Software Architecture: Why We Decided It This Way

Code of Leadership conversation about Software Architecture. Guest: Alexey Grishin.

Education: Teach the Hard Stuff, Not the Job Spec

Code of Leadership conversation about Modern Education. Guest: Evgeny Sokolov.

Processes and Tools: Words Fade, Tooling Stays

Code of Leadership conversation about Processes and Tools. Guest: Pavel Akhmetchanov.

Architecture Review: One Table Instead of Pinball

Code of Leadership conversation about Architecture. Guest: Anton Kosterin.

Subscriber AMA: Books, Daily Routine, Career, and the Path to CTO

The first subscriber AMA from the Book Cube channel: reading 100+ books a year, a CTO's day hour by hour, what shaped the career, and which track leads to CTO.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: No Trust, No Real Debate

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team · Patrick Lencioni

Code of Leadership episode about The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Guest: Andrey Sokolov.

Security: Vulnerabilities Are Born in Architecture

Code of Leadership conversation about Information Security at Tinkoff. Guest: Roman Lebed.

Risk Tech: A Credit Decision in Seconds

Code of Leadership conversation about Risk Tech. Guest: Artem Ivanov.

Accelerate: Measure Delivery, Not Lines of Code

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps · Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Code of Leadership episode about Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps. Guest: Igor Kurochkin.

Spirit: An Internal Platform Run as a Product

Code of Leadership conversation about Spirit: Internal Developer Platform at Tinkoff. Guest: Dima Gaevsky.

Systems Analysts: A 900-Person Profession

Code of Leadership conversation about Systems Analysts at Tinkoff. Guest: Kirill Kraynev.

An Elegant Puzzle, Part 2: Reorganize Only as a Last Resort

An Elegant Puzzle · Will Larson

Code of Leadership episode about An Elegant Puzzle. Guest: Evgeny Sergeev.

An Elegant Puzzle, Part 1: Move Domains, Not People

An Elegant Puzzle · Will Larson

Code of Leadership episode about An Elegant Puzzle. Guest: Evgeny Sergeev.

Statist: Collecting Events Is Only Half the Job

Code of Leadership conversation about Statist: A Product Analytics Platform. Guest: Andrey Tsybin.

Your Brain at Work: Attention Is a Battery

Your Brain at Work · David Rock

Code of Leadership episode about Your Brain at Work. Guest: Ernesto Inarkiev.

Staff+ Engineers: Growing Without Going into Management

Code of Leadership conversation about Staff+ Engineers: Growing Your Own or Hiring. Guest: Alexey Tarasov.

The Phoenix Project: When the Hero Is the Bottleneck

The Phoenix Project · Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

Code of Leadership episode about The Phoenix Project. Guest: Ivan Mikheev.

Turn the Ship Around: Leaders, Not Followers

Turn the Ship Around · L. David Marquet

Code of Leadership episode about Turn the Ship Around. Guest: Ekaterina Shestimerova.

Herding Cats: Delegate, Don't Write More Code

Herding Cats

Code of Leadership episode about Herding Cats. Guest: Evgeny Kuzovlev.

Antifragility in IT: Hypotheses Instead of Specs

Antifragility in IT

Code of Leadership episode about Antifragility in IT. Guest: Alexander Byndyu.

Team Topologies: Teams Built for Flow, Not the Org Chart

Team Topologies · Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais

Code of Leadership episode about Team Topologies. Guest: Stanislav Khalup.