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How To Automate Team Processes With Antonia Scheidel

Sep 12, 2025

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How to Automate Team Processes ⚡ — with Antonia Scheidel

Refactoring Podcast Season 5 • Episode 9

Luca Rossi
Sep 12
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Today's guest is Antonia Scheidel!

Antonia is Director of Engineering at Duolingo, where she made the whole career progression, starting as a simple intern 12 years ago.

Antonia is an expert at designing good, automated processes for your team.

We discussed:

  • How to create good automation to avoid people doing glue work

  • How not to become a bottleneck as a manager

  • How to make the team own the process and repair it when needed.


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Here is the agenda for today:

  1. 👋 Antonia's Journey at Duolingo

  2. 📊 The Project Management Problem

  3. 🔧 Getting Out of the Manual Work Trap

  4. ⚡ Building Automated Processes That Work

  5. 🔔 Making Notifications Effective

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