Monica Giambitto
Co-Host of Expanding Beyond
Italian living in Germany. Dev at ❤️. I'm actually an Engineering Manager, currently at Freeletics. I do Ruby and Rails since 2011. once a Rubyst, always a Rubyst.
strong believer in agile, people empowerment, and growth mindset practitioner.
proud MC of Euruko in 2016, Ruby on Ice, BalkanRuby in 2018, Italian Ruby Day.
Monica Giambitto has hosted 55 Episodes.
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Episode 31: Human-centered leadership (an interview with Franziska Hauck)
8 September 2021 | 1 hr 17 mins
In this episode we talk to Franziska Hauck about coaching, being a manager, onboarding, and various other topics.
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Episode 30: It was too sunny at the beach
25 August 2021 | 36 mins 29 secs
We discuss picking jobs based on a tech stack you want to learn, engineering roadmaps, going on holidays, and high performing teams.
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Episode 29: How to approach chaos
11 August 2021 | 36 mins 47 secs
We discuss working in a start-up environment, making hard decisions when prioritizing, and the parallels between architecture and software development.
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Episode 28: Project management should be taught in school
28 July 2021 | 40 mins 40 secs
In this episode we discuss how Monica is doing in her new job, project management, stakeholder mapping, premortems, and project management.
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Episode 27: Random people are people, too
14 July 2021 | 38 mins 22 secs
In this episode we discuss greenfield applications, when they make sense, when they do not, and how to split out parts of an app.
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Episode 26: It's so weird to be in a new job
30 June 2021 | 47 mins 47 secs
We talk about Monica's new job, how she's approaching new jobs in general, and what management roles a team needs.
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Episode 25: We're on this earth to chill
16 June 2021 | 46 mins 50 secs
We discuss making big technical decisions, building vs. buying, how it's important to take a break from work and Monica's 10 year plan.
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Episode 24: People make stuff up all the time
2 June 2021 | 41 mins 1 sec
In this episode we talk about how to manage errors and failures.
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Episode 23: One year of podcasting
19 May 2021 | 42 mins 9 secs
In this episode we talk about what we learning during one year of podcasting.
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Episode 21: Mental health
21 April 2021 | 48 mins
In this episode we talk about mental health, vulnerability as manager, burnout, therapy, and personal growth.
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Episode 20: We won our OKRs!
7 April 2021 | 33 mins 39 secs
In this meandering episode we discuss feeling like a team when you're virtual, virtual conferences, and RubyDay in particular.