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The Stack Overflow Podcast

Ryan Donovan

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led software engineering show focused on programming, developer tools, artificial intelligence, and how technology is built and operated, typically featuring senior practitioners, researchers, and technology leaders from major companies. Credible pitches include AI researchers, software engineering executives, open-source creators, developer-platform founders, and practitioners with original research or production-scale experience; booking difficulty is high.

Metrics

Episodes: 983

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.2/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 17.0k subscribers

Instagram: 50.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Ryan Donovan - Host of the Stack Overflow Podcast, focused on software engineering, programming, and the evolution of developer technology.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior software engineering, artificial intelligence, research, developer-platform, or technology leadership experience, particularly at major technology companies or organizations operating systems at scale.
Required Achievements:  
Created or led major programming languages, platforms, or software systems, Conducted notable artificial intelligence or software engineering research, Held senior technical leadership roles at major technology companies, Published technical papers or released significant open-source work

Recent Guest Discussions

Leo de Moura - Using Lean To Prove The Correctness Of AI Agents, Automated Reasoning, Probabilistic AI, And Continuous Code Optimization.

Praveen Bodigutla - Linkedin’s Cognitive Memory System For Agentic Personalization, Tree-structured Memory, Graphrag, Retrieval Freshness, Latency, And Access Control.

Andi Gutmans - Agentic Software Development, Code Review, Human And Agent Judgment, Ai-assisted Interviewing, Data Readiness, And Agent-driven Ontology Building.

Suneet Malhotra - Agentic Software Development Life Cycles, Model Evaluation, Test Engineering, Specification Enrichment, And Shifting Quality Assurance Earlier In Development.

Recent Topics

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Developer Tools, Cloud Computing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Stack Overflow Podcast
:

AI, JD, and other letters of the law

September 15, 2026

Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and regulating AI for child safety using existing consumer protection laws.Episode notes:The AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law explores the complex legal and policy questions surrounding artificial intelligence, which Kevin also covers on his own pod...

AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game

September 11, 2026

Ryan chats with Sam Curry, CSO at Zscaler, about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why shifting security protections closer to applications helps limit probes for vulnerabilities, and why building more resilient code infrastructure is the best way to address the vulnerabilities AI does discover.Episode notes:Zscaler is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-based security solutions, zero trust architecture, and TLS inspection to help organizations secur...

Java’s age is its AI superpower

September 09, 2026

SPONSORED BY IBMRyan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java. They talk about why the long history of Java both makes for a stable language and a source of training data for AI. On top of that, they discuss how agentic Java excels by working with powerful partners: a massive ecosystem of Java libraries and agentic harnesses. Try out Bob, IBM’s coding agent that Markus talked about in the episode. Connect with Markus on Co...

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