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Podcast for Engineering Leaders Managing Remote Teams Who Want to Get It Right

Built by Humans is a podcast for engineering leaders managing remote teams and scaling modern tech companies.

Hosted by Zhenya Rozinskiy, the show focuses on real-world challenges in hiring global talent, building distributed engineering teams, and leading across time zones. With over 30 years of experience working with distributed teams across nearly every continent, his perspective comes from operating inside real teams, not advising from the outside.

Each episode features founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders sharing how they actually run teams, make decisions, and deal with the problems no one talks about.

You will hear practical insights on remote team management, engineering leadership, hiring developers globally, and building products that work in real conditions.

This is not a theory. These are leaders explaining what worked, what failed, and what they would do differently.

It goes beyond hiring or managing individuals. The real challenge in distributed teams is how people work together when there is no shared environment. Communication breaks, ownership gets unclear, and alignment takes more effort.

We cover how teams operate in that reality. How decisions move across functions. How leaders handle pressure from different directions. And how companies function when everything depends on clear communication, not proximity.

Built by Humans is produced by Mirigos, a company that helps businesses build and scale remote engineering teams without losing control over quality, communication, or delivery. The focus is simple. Find the right engineers, integrate them properly, and make sure they operate as part of the team, not outside of it.

If you are leading or building a remote engineering team, this podcast helps you understand how to do it without losing control.

Because every company is built by humans.

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Culture Clashes, AI Misuse, and the Disappearing Junior Engineer | Zhenya Rozinskiy, Cory Hymel
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Culture Clashes, AI Misuse, and the Disappearing Junior Engineer | Zhenya Rozinskiy, Cory Hymel

Some teams use AI to move faster. Others refuse to use it at all. And in between? A lot of culture clashes no one’s talking about.In this episode, Mirigos CEO Zhenya Rozinskiy sits down with Cory Hymel, VP of Product and Research at Crowdbotics, to talk through what’s really happening inside tech teams as AI becomes part of the workflow, and junior roles quietly disappear.They covered: • Why some senior engineers avoid AI, and why that’s a risk • What happens when non-engineers start shipping product • How ignoring junior hiring breaks your future pipeline • Where AI helps, and where it still fails completely in hiring • What hybrid teams need to avoid resentment and burnoutIt’s not hype. It’s how real engineering orgs are shifting, and what leaders need to rethink if they want their teams to last.
Jul 28, 2025