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Engineering Culture by InfoQHow Blameless Culture Transforms Engineering TeamsThis is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tameem Hourani about building a blameless engineering culture through radical transparency, focusing on system resilience over individual blame, and creating high-performing teams that can embrace change and learn from failures.
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2025-09-2628 min
Shift & Thrive: CEO Insights on Driving ChangeBalancing AI, Automation, and Human Leadership - Tameem Hourani - Shift & Thrive - Episode # 061How can leaders balance automation and AI with the irreplaceable human elements of sales, culture, and leadership? In this episode, Natalie Nathanson sits down with Tameem Hourani, founder and CEO of RapDev, to explore his journey from a technologist to leading a rapidly growing tech services firm. Tameem opens up about the challenges of shifting from an engineering mindset to scaling a sales-driven organization, and why investing in people, not just automation, is critical for growth. Throughout the conversation, Tameem reflects on the personal growth required to lead boldly, the lessons learned from taking risks, and the importance of...
2025-09-1040 min
The Founders' JourneyTameem Hourani, Founder & Principal of RapDevIn this episode of The Founders’ Journey, Ryan Heckman sits down with Tameem Hourani, Founder & Principal of RapDev, to explore his bold journey from Bahrain to Boston and from Wayfair engineer to tech entrepreneur. Tameem shares how he launched RapDev while still at Wayfair, scaling it into one of the fastest-growing IT consultancies - without any outside funding. They dive into the realities of bootstrapping, embracing mistakes, and maintaining the mindset of “always being a startup.” Tune in for a backstage pass to true entrepreneurship.Tameem Hourani is not an investor in one or more of Rall...
2025-04-0159 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS10 E20: Tameem Hourani, RapDevTameem Hourani was born in the Middle East, on a small island. He came to the states, Boston specifically, for school in 2006. He planned on 4 years of engineering, which turned into 19 years of life. He became a citizen of the US during COVID, and spent many years of his career at Wayfair, which he throughly enjoyed. But outside of tech, he is a new father and spends a lot of time with his newborn. He loves being in the ocean, scuba diving, kite surfing and along side that, collecting vintage watches.In the past, Tameem had been...
2025-02-1824 min
Keep it AI - ServiceNowEpisode 12: The state of DevOps and SRE industry with TameemIn this episode, I sat down with Tameem Hourani at RapDev to discuss the state of DevOps and the SRE industry. Hear how the industry is progressing and how to solve everyday challenges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2021-06-0810 min
The Alldus Podcast - AI in ActionServiceNow Series E25: Tameem Hourani, Principal at RapDevToday's guest is Tameem Hourani, Principal at RapDev in Boston. Founded in 2017, RapDev helps customers of all sizes transform into true DevOps organizations. They have taken several customers from deploying applications once a month to hundreds of times a day. Over the past few years, they have taken customers on journeys ranging from Tool integrations to Culture and Organizational changes.
RapDev is a team of experienced ServiceNow Wizards and passionate SRE's contributing to the open-source community, who have built multiple enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines and integrations to help your organization build velocity in your release cycle. They...
2021-06-0220 min
ServiceNow EMEA PodcastsDevOps Podcast - Episode 4: Tameem Hourani @ RapDev.ioWelcome to Episode 4 of our DevOps Podcast Series! In this episode, we sit down with Tameem Hourani from RapDev.io to discuss all things DevOps and get more background on his career trajectory - which is an incredible story. He built incredible intellectual property at Wayfair leveraging ServiceNow and Slack and helped grandfather one of the first successful implementations of “Chat Ops” in our industry. Now, he has his own company where they are continuing to build some of the most innovative DevOps solutions in the industry and are actively building the future of IT Operations for cust...
2020-01-071h 10ServiceNow DevOpsDevOps Podcast - Episode 4: Tameem Hourani @ RapDev.ioWelcome to Episode 4 of our DevOps Podcast Series! In this episode, we sit down with Tameem Hourani from RapDev.io to discuss all things DevOps and get more background on his career trajectory - which is an incredible story. He built incredible intellectual property at Wayfair leveraging ServiceNow and Slack and helped grandfather one of the first successful implementations of “Chat Ops” in our industry. Now, he has his own company where they are continuing to build some of the most innovative DevOps solutions in the industry and are actively building the future of IT Operations for cust...
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