The Peterman Pod

Ryan Peterman

ryanlpeterman@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

Interview-focused show about transparent career stories from technical professionals, with external guests including distinguished computer scientists, software engineers, and startup founders. Agencies could credibly pitch senior engineering leaders, prominent researchers, developer-tools founders, and technically accomplished entrepreneurs; booking is likely high difficulty because recent guests have exceptional academic or industry credentials.

Metrics

Episodes: 58

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

ryanlpeterman@gmail.com

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Host

Ryan Peterman - Former Staff engineer at Instagram who shares transparent career stories from technical professionals.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Distinguished computer scientists, senior software engineers, technical founders, and engineering leaders with notable research, products, companies, or industry contributions.
Required Achievements:  
Major academic awards, Influential research contributions, Founding or building notable technology companies, Creation of widely used software or developer tools

Recent Guest Discussions

Martin Hellman - Public-key Cryptography, The Crypto Wars, Encryption History, Information Security, And Career Advice.

Ryan Williams - Computational Complexity, Algorithms, Leetcode, SAT Problems, P Versus NP, Research Direction, And Solving Difficult Problems.

Charlie Marsh - Software Engineering, Rust And Python Tooling, Artificial Intelligence-generated Code, Open Source, Developer Tools, And Founding A Technology Company.

Recent Topics

Software Engineering, Computer Science, Algorithms, Startups, Technical Careers

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Peterman Pod
:

Turing Award Winner: TPU vs GPU vs CPU, Computer Architecture, RISC vs CISC | David Patterson

July 13, 2026

David Patterson is a Turing Award winner famous for his contributions to computer architecture. I interviewed him about his past work, thoughts on GPU/TPUs and career advice from half a century of experience.• My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/• The Kickstarter page for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-donePodcast links:• YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pn4ZwlEh5nw• Apple: https:...

Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman

July 06, 2026

Martin Hellman is a Turing Award winner who helped to invent public-key cryptography against the NSA's wishes. I interviewed him all about his work and why it broke the law at the time.• My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/• The Kickstarter page for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-donePodcast links:• YouTube: https://youtu.be/AZLOETBCQM4• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.co...

MIT Complexity Theorist: Why You Can Do Better Than “Optimal” On Leetcode & SAT | Ryan Williams

June 29, 2026

Ryan Williams is a professor at MIT and the winner of the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. I interviewed him all about his work starting by asking him a popular Leetcode question (3 SUM).Correction: In this podcast I say "lower bound" when I mean "upper bound" and vice versa. Was speaking using the intuition that lower is better for running time. In reality, the accurate usage is:"Lower bound" = A proven floor for a problem e.g. "no algorithm can...

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