Episodes: 148
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Male
Listener location: USA
Publicly listed emails
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Tobias Schlottke - Host and interviewer covering technology, engineering, and management for CTOs and other technical leaders.
Charles Guillemet - Ai-driven Vulnerability Discovery, Security-by-design, Key Management, Zero Trust, Ai-native Engineering Teams, And CISO Independence.
David Soria Parra - AI Agent Harnesses, Model Context Protocol, CLI Tools, Engineering Workflows, Software Development Process, And Defensible Engineering Work.
Dana Lawson - AI Agents, Developer And Agent Experience, Engineering Leadership, Software Architecture, Guardrails, Reliability, And The Changing Role Of Developers.
Aike Hillbrands - Internal AI Tooling, Git-based Company Knowledge Systems, AI Security Risks, Buy-versus-build Decisions, And Enterprise HR Integrations.
Vaibhav Gupta - Programming Languages For Large Language Models, AI Engineering Workflows, Software Development Infrastructure, Trust And Control, And Saas Product Models.
#148 Git Is the Wrong Tool Now: Rewriting the Social Contract of Agentic Teams with Raffi Krikorian // CTO @ Mozilla
October 15, 2026
Raffi Krikorian has built teams at scale: platform engineering at Twitter, Uber's self-driving center, and the Democratic National Committee, where he was its first CTO. Today he's CTO of Mozilla, working to make AI as open as the web, and on the side he runs three rotating Claude Max subscriptions and a GPU in his closet. Tobi and Raffi look at what agentic coding has done to engineering teams. Writing code used to be a social contract: coordinating with other teams, negotiating requirement...
#147 "Make It Secure" Isn't a Prompt: A L0pht Hacker on Securing AI-Written Code with Chris Wysopal // Chief Security Evangelist @ Veracode
October 01, 2026
Chris Wysopal was one of the first hackers to go public. As "Weld Pond" at the L0pht hacker collective in Boston, he testified before the US Senate in 1998, where the group delivered the soundbite that they could take down the internet in 30 minutes. He also wrote the Windows version of Netcat. In 2006 he co-founded Veracode, which by his account has now analysed trillions of lines of code. Today he's the company's Chief Security Evangelist. Tobi and Chris talk about what AI changes for atta...
#146 AI Found What Nine Years of Security Research Missed with Charles Guillemet // CTO @ Ledger
September 17, 2026
Charles Guillemet has spent nine years building Ledger's security organization from scratch — first as the founder of The Donjon, Ledger's in-house offensive security research team, then as CTO overseeing security for a company safeguarding roughly 20% of the world's crypto (per Tobi's intro framing). The conversation centers on one uncomfortable observation: with the latest generation of frontier AI models, Ledger's researchers started finding product vulnerabilities that fifteen dedicated ...
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alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders is hosted by Tobias Schlottke. Its publicly listed email is tobias@alphalist.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.
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alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Current or former CTOs, technical founders, senior engineering or product executives, AI infrastructure specialists, cybersecurity leaders, and other recognized practitioners with substantial experience building or leading technology organizations. Common among recent guests: Leadership of notable technology companies or engineering organizations; Creation or stewardship of widely used software, platforms, protocols, or security programs; Significant contributions to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer infrastructure, or software engineering. Recent guests include Charles Guillemet, David Soria Parra, and Dana Lawson.
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