Season 1 — Coming Summer 2026
Hacking Borders
How HR & engineering leaders design global teams without breaking delivery. A new podcast from Tony Le.
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01 — The Show
Not theory. Not fluff. The real decisions, failures, and systems behind scaling engineering teams across borders.
Each episode is a thirty-minute conversation between Tony and one guest — VPs of People, Heads of Talent, VPs of Engineering, and CTOs who've already done what most companies are about to attempt. Released every two weeks across Spotify, Apple, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack.
02 — Why be in the room
Why this podcast is going to be worth your time.
Most content on global team building is written by consultants who haven't run a team in years. Hacking Borders is built on something rarer: the unedited operating decisions of HR and engineering leaders who already scaled teams to 50, 100, 200+ engineers across borders — and lived with the consequences.
Every episode, you'll hear:
- The org charts that broke at scale — and the redesigns that fixed them.
- The cost lines nobody put in the original business case.
- The hiring signals that actually predict performance across cultures.
- The governance models that worked, and the ones that quietly fell apart.
- The conversations these leaders wish they’d had with their CEO eighteen months earlier.
If you're planning a global expansion, currently inside one, or pattern-matching for what's about to break in yours: this is the room you want to be in.
03 — Your host
Tony Le
Global Talent Executive · 3x Talent100 Winner
Tony has spent the last decade building and rebuilding talent operations across borders — leading global hiring at companies including Mission Cloud, Contentful, Getaround, and IAC. He sits on the HIGHER Community Advisory Board and has worked alongside the leaders who actually built the playbooks the rest of the industry is still trying to copy.
Now he's bringing the operators on the record.
04 — Where to find it
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Brought to you by
CodersLink
Hacking Borders is produced independently and sponsored by CodersLink — the nearshore engineering partner helping US companies build and scale teams across Latin America. CodersLink doesn't shape editorial.
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