Dr. James Stanier is a computer science PhD turned engineering leader, author of three books on engineering management, and the mind behind The Engineering Manager newsletter with nearly 30,000 subscribers. He scaled Brandwatch's engineering team from startup to a $450M acquisition, led hundreds of engineers at Shopify, and now serves as CTO for the veterinary division at Nordhealth. His work distills what it actually takes to go from writing code to running organizations - without losing the technical edge.
Thorsten Ball is a German software engineer, author, and technical educator best known for his self-published books 'Writing an Interpreter in Go' and 'Writing a Compiler in Go', which have become go-to resources for developers wanting to understand programming language internals. With over two decades of professional software development experience, he currently works at Sourcegraph on Amp, an AI-powered coding agent. He also writes the weekly newsletter 'Register Spill', covering systems programming, developer tools, and the intersection of AI with software engineering.