• Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam

  • Mar 12 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam

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  • Supported by Our Partners• Sentry — Error and performance monitoring for developers.• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Written by me (Gergely) – now out in audio form as well.—In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by former Uber colleague, Gautam Korlam. Gautam is the Co-Founder of Gitar, an agentic AI startup that automates code maintenance. Gautam was mobile engineer no. 9 at Uber and founding engineer for the mobile platform team – and so he learned a few things about scaling up engineering teams.We talk about:• How Gautam accidentally deleted Uber’s Java monorepo – really!• Uber's unique engineering stack and why custom solutions like SubmitQueue were built in-house• Monorepo: the benefits and downsides of this approach• From Engineer II to Principal Engineer at Uber: Gautam’s career trajectory• Practical strategies for building trust and gaining social capital • How the platform team at Uber operated with a product-focused mindset• Vibe coding: why it helps with quick prototyping• How AI tools are changing developer experience and productivity• Important skills for devs to pick up to remain valuable as AI tools spread• And more!—Timestamps(00:00) Intro(02:11) How Gautam accidentally deleted Uber’s Java Monorepo(05:40) The impact of Gautam’s mistake(06:35) Uber’s unique engineering stack(10:15) Uber’s SubmitQueue(12:44) Why Uber moved to a monorepo(16:30) The downsides of a monorepo(18:35) Measurement products built in-house (20:20) Measuring developer productivity and happiness (22:52) How Devpods improved developer productivity (27:37) The challenges with cloud development environments(29:10) Gautam’s journey from Eng II to Principal Engineer(32:00) Building trust and gaining social capital (36:17) An explanation of Principal Engineer at Uber—and the archetypes at Uber (45:07) The platform and program split at Uber(48:15) How Gautam and his team supported their internal users (52:50) Gautam’s thoughts on developer productivity (59:10) How AI enhances productivity, its limitations, and the rise of agentic AI(1:04:00) An explanation of Vibe coding(1:07:34) An overview of Gitar and all it can help developers with (1:10:44) Top skills to cultivate to add value and stay relevant(1:17:00) Rapid fire round—The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode:• The Platform and Program split at Uber• How Uber is measuring engineering productivity• Inside Uber’s move to the Cloud• How Uber built its observability platform• Software Architect Archetypes—See the transcript and other references from the episode at ⁠⁠https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/podcast⁠⁠—Production and marketing by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://penname.co/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@pragmaticengineer.com. Get full access to The Pragmatic Engineer at newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/subscribe
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