Understanding Customer Needs in Product Development

Inbal Shani is Chief Product Officer of GitHub. Having led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft and serving as a General Manager for most of her career, she specializes in crafting solutions that maximize customers’ most business-critical outcomes. Inbal’s development experience has spanned the entire tech stack. She was among the pioneering technologists who applied AI in the lab during her Master's in mechanical engineering. Immersed in the rapid evolution of LLMs and AI models, she is deeply passionate about optimizing the developer experience in her role as GitHub's Chief Product Officer. In this episode, Inbal shares her thoughts on the impact of AI on software development, the mindset of building 0 to 1 products, how to become comfortable moving from an individual contributor to management role, and much more.