CTO Connection Podcast
138 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIf you run an engineering organization, connect with and learn from your peers at CTO Connection - the premier community for senior software engineering leaders. Learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating, or managing an engineering team, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers! Our podcast and weekly newsletter provide you with access to hard-won wisdom from top engineering leaders and associated experts. And join our summit series (online or in-person) to share problems and get answers.Learn more about CTO Connection and their virtual summits at https://www.ctoconnection.com/
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Short Byte: Mark Van de Wiel - Managing an engineering team through an acquisition
January 13, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWhat with covid and the great resignation, it’s hard enough to keep an engineering organization intact, aligned and motivated. Imagine doing the same while negotiating a transaction that could impact everything from your feature roadmap to your long-term tech stack. In this episode, I chat with Mark Van de Wiel, VP Technology at Fivetran who recently navigated an acquisition of his company, HVR into Fivetran. PARTNER Thanks to our partner CloudZero — Cloud Cost Intelligence Platform. Contr...
Short Byte: Marko Gargenta - Tech enablement - the hard part of developer education
December 30, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBThe hard part of developer education isn’t teaching your team a new language or framework. It’s teaching your team how you use the language or framework. Smart devs can always find a video course online to learn the basics of ES6 or Scala, but teaching them the patterns used within your company, where the microservices live, and how to configure your CI pipeline can be challenging as the information is often not documented - or the docs are often out of date. Marko Gargenta helped create Twi...
Short Byte: Ramana Satyavarapu - Engineering management vs leadership
December 23, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBRamana Satyavarapu is the CTO at Finix - a payments solution for SaaS companies. Previously he was Head of Data Engineering Platform and Product at Two Sigma, Head of Engineering, Software Network Infrastructure for Uber and a Head of Engineering at Google running the Google Play search team. In this episode we discuss the distinction between management and leadership, dig into how he worked on developing the leadership principles at his current company, how he thinks about balancing product...
Short Byte: Ron Lichty - Starting a new engineering leadership role
December 16, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBFor most of us, jumping into engineering leadership at a new company is only something we do every 3-5 years. Today's guest, Ron Lichty, Consulting VPE, often jumps into three or more new companies every year! In this episode, we’ll discuss how he investigates the technologies, tools, teams and processes to add value quickly to an org. Whether you’re looking forward to starting your next gig or just want to freshen up your impact at your current org, it’ll be a great chance to think about ho...
Short Byte: David Subar - How to choose a CTO coach
December 09, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBNo matter how experienced you are, there are times where it can make sense to get a second pair of eyes on a problem. For small questions you can always tap your network, but as the amount of context required and input needed grows, it can make sense to bring in a consultant in so they can think deeply and engage thoughtfully with the problem. In this week's episode, I talk with David Subar, a fractional CTO, about his experiences of how and when to engage with a CTO coach and how to find o...
Short Byte: Joe Bradley - Leveraging conversational AI
December 02, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBConversational AI has come a long way from simple rules based chatbots, but it's still a complex and quickly evolving space. Join me as I chat with Joe Bradley, Chief Scientist at LivePerson, about the use cases, tooling, team structures and gotchas if you're considering implementing a conversational AI system for your company.
Short Byte: Claudius Mbemba - Sustaining culture within a remote-first team
November 25, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBWe're all dealing with remote-first teams now whether we like to or not. But the more I investigate hybrid working options, the more likely it seems that we're going to have to come up with remote friendly approaches to building and sustaining the culture of our engineering orgs long term. Hear how Claudius Mbemba, CTO of Neu, has built and sustained an effective remote first culture for four years at his startup.
Short Byte: Labhesh Patel - Diversity, Inclusion and Bias in AI Systems
November 18, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBMost companies are increasingly trying to leverage data science to achieve their business goals, but it's easy to create biased models that disadvantage underrepresented groups. In this episode I get to chat with Labhesh Patel, CTO and Chief Scientist at Jumio. We start by looking at common types of data bias around representation and features that may be highly correlated with protected features (zip codes that are highly correlated with race, for example) and the challenges of supervised ...
Short Byte: Charlie Reverte - Retaining your team during the 'great resignation'
November 11, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBThe great resignation is both a threat and an opportunity for engineering leaders. To avoid regrettable attrition, you need to make sure you are tracking your comp to industry standards, creating the psychological safety to allow your team to be honest about their career aspirations and ensuring that you have consistent, high quality management across the org. At the same time, you need to be super clear about your value prop as an employer, active in recruiting, and timely in making offers ...
Short Byte: Jossie Haines - Empathy and Inclusion in Engineering Leadership
November 04, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBTo create a truly diverse and inclusive team where everyone can thrive and share their views, engineering leaders need to abide by the following three pillars: 1) effective and fair management principles, 2) comprehensive DEI practices, and 3) an inclusive culture. Empathy is the framework leaders can use to ensure they are incorporating all three pillars in their daily work. Jossie will share more details on the three pillars and how to leverage empathy as the foundation for inclusive l...
Short Byte: Ben John - Managing engineering at scale
October 21, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this wide ranging talk, I chat with Dr. Ben John about his experiences in scaling and managing the team at AppNexus (and post AT&T acquisition at Xandr). We talk about six week planning cycles, creating a supportive culture, building out a learnign and development team within the engineering org and Ben's advice for anyone else moving from engineering to leadership.
Short Byte: Anne Lise Waal - Gaming the enterprise
October 07, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBIt's not easy to bring gaming technologies into the enterprise. From hardware limitations to unreasonable expectations, it's challenging to bring game like learning simulations to the corporate world. Anne Lise Waal has been doing just that at Attensi, and in this episode she shares her experiences in aligning designers, copy writers and developers, managing feature creep, prioritizing an ever changing backlog and managing technical debt.
Short Byte: Colin Earl - How and why CTOs should engage with no-code tools
September 23, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBThey're coming. From bubble.io and webflow through UI Path and Blue Prism, the chances are that someone within your company is already building a departmental system using a "no code" tool. As with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for CIOs a decade ago, ignoring the problem isn't an option. In this episode, I chat with Colin Earl, Founder & CTO at Agiloft, about how CTOs can evaluate & leverage RPA tools to support "citizen developers" within their companies to reduce the pressure on the core ...
Short Byte: Mark Reese - Starting from somewhere else
September 09, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBWellington, NZ isn’t the obvious place to start a SaaS company. But Xero has built a globally distributed team of over 1800 people in product and engineering. In this episode, I chat with Mark Rees [https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrees3/], their CTO about how they scaled the org. Learn more about: - How he doubled his engineering team from 150 -> 300 in a year - His approach to allocating work across a widely distributed org - Why his team actually appreciated the introduction of stand...
Starting from somewhere else
September 09, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBWellington, NZ isn’t the obvious place to start a SaaS company. But Xero has built a globally distributed team of over 1800 people in product and engineering. In this episode, I chat with Mark Rees [https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrees3/], their CTO about how they scaled the org. Learn more about: - How he doubled his engineering team from 150 -> 300 in a year - His approach to allocating work across a widely distributed org - Why his team actually appreciated the introduction of stand...
Short Byte: Adam Sypniewski - Going against the flow
August 26, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBOne of the biggest risks for an engineering org is the “Not Invented Here” syndrome where the tech team wants to rethink every decision and rebuild every piece of tech from scratch. But sometimes it makes sense to take a different path if the constraints you’re optimizing for are uncommon. In this episode I chat with Adam Sypniewski, CTO at Deepgram about some of the non-obvious choices that their team has made - from programming languages and hosting to team composition and how to approach...
Short Byte: Anurag Gupta - The importance of automating production ops
August 12, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBWhile running database services for AWS, Anurag Gupta, now Founder & CEO of Shoreline.io, learned the importance of going beyond monitoring and incident response to implement incident automation to automatically resolve common (and uncommon) production issues. In this episode, he talks about the importance of automating production ops, why just using cloud hosting or containers doesn’t fully solve the problem and how to think about building out an effective SRE team.
Short Byte: Rob Zuber - Being an executive first
July 30, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBAs a CTO, you're not just responsible for running the engineering team... Because you're also a C-level executive with the responsibility to help the executive team to leverage technology to achieve their business goals. So how can you maximize the value you're bringing to your organization? The answer is to be an "executive first". And that's what Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI, talks about in this short byte. He shares what the CTO brings to the leadership team, the biggest difference betwe...
Short Byte: Tim Olshansky - Managing hybrid remote teams
June 17, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBShort Byte: Tim Olshansky - Managing hybrid remote teams We can't put the remote genie back in the bottle, but with some people desperate to get out and go back to the office, how can organizations manage the two? In today's Short Byte, I speak to Tim Olshansky, EVP of Product, Design and Engineering at Zenput, a foodtech startup focused on food safety. Tim embraced a hybrid remote model long before the pandemic and has been successfully managing hybrid remote teams for 11 years. In this ...
Short Byte: Jeff DeVerter - Do you even know what software your company is developing?
May 20, 2021 22:34 - 29 minutes - 20 MBShort Byte: Jeff DeVerter - Do you even know what software your company is developing? The good news is that software development has moved from a peripheral activity to the heart of every business. But as technology becomes integral to all functions, how can you keep track of what embedded engineers across the org are building, balancing awareness and reliability with agility? Today we’re speaking with Jeff DeVerter, CTO of Product & Services at RackSpace about empowering technology across...
Short Byte: Jeffrey Spector - Why you have to improve your hiring process
March 31, 2021 18:50 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBShort Byte: Jeffrey Spector - Why you have to improve your hiring process With demand for talent at an all time high, if you want to attract, identify and close the best developers for your team, you simply have to up your hiring game. Join us for this “Short Byte” as I interview Jeff Spector - a cofounder at Karat - a company dedicated to fixing the hiring process for engineers. We’ll discuss how to create a fair, predictive and enjoyable hiring process so that you get great signal from yo...
Short Byte: Camille Fournier - Managing a product focused engineering org
March 11, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBShort Byte: Camille Fournier - Managing a product focused engineering org Camille Fournier is perhaps best known for her amazing book “the managers path” - a guide for tech leaders navigating growth and change. But she also has a degree from Carnegie Mellon, was a VP at Goldman Sachs, and then was the CTO at Rent The Runway before eventually returning to the finance world as Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma. Today she discusses her experiences in managing a product focused enginee...
Short Byte: Mai Irie - What to do when your engineering leader leaves
February 25, 2021 19:53 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBShort Byte: Mai Irie - What to do when your engineering leader leaves Mai Irie is a director of engineering, but twice in the last two years she’s had to deal with managing the engineering org after her CTO or general equivalent left. In this interview we’ll look at some best practices for taking over an engineering org in times of transition. Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders ...
Short Byte: Lee Edwards - How to pick the right tech startup
February 20, 2021 00:48 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBShort Byte: Lee Edwards - How to pick the right tech startup Whether you’re thinking of founding, joining or investing in an early stage tech company, Lee Edwards has some advice! From effective due diligence on an early stage company to some interesting focus areas for deep tech startups. Lee is a partner at Root Ventures - a hard tech seed VC, and was previously CTO/VPE at Teespring and an Engineering Manager at Groupon. Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services (AWS). A...
Short Byte: Johnny Ray Austin Measuring outcomes vs. inputs
February 13, 2021 00:32 - 30 minutes - 21 MBShort Byte: Johnny Ray Austin - Measuring outcomes vs. inputs How can you best measure the effectiveness of your engineering team? Lines of Code written? Number of PR’s? There are absolutely some input metrics that can have some value, but we don’t hire engineers to write code, we hire them to solve business problems. In this discussion Johnny Ray Austin, CTO at Till shares his experiences of managing his org by focusing on the outcomes produced rather than the inputs delivered. Special ...
Short Byte: James Smith - Building vs buying software
February 06, 2021 16:54 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBBuilding vs buying software Building vs buying is always a fraught decision. Nominally buying a solution provides more capability and a quicker time to market, but then you have the potential of vendor lock in and being constrained by the limitations of the tool that you chose. And in the engineering world, it’s even harder. While Not Invented Here syndrome is becoming less prevalent, you still need to pick between a ground up implementation or leveraging open source, professional open sourc...
Short Byte: Heidi WIlliams - Building a startup within a startup
January 29, 2021 22:10 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBBuilding a startup within a startup There are a unique set of constraints when you’re running an engineering team at a “startup within a startup” - from managing the planning cycle before you’ve hit product market fit, to customizing elements of your product and infrastructure designed for a very different audience. Join us to hear how Heidi Williams, Director of Engineering at Grammarly is working on these challenges by building out an enterprise offering for a traditionally consumer focus...
Short Byte: Juan Pablo Buriticá 12/17/2020 - learning the craft of engineering management
December 17, 2020 19:26 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBJP learned engineering management the hard way - and he’s passionate about helping new engineering leaders to have a better pathway to building their skills. In this Short Byte we look at the differences between being an engineering leader at a startup vs a larger company, how JP learned to become a manager, resources that are now available for engineering leaders and some hints and tips on managing your boss and hiring effectively at a startup. Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon...
Short Byte: Cat Miller 12/3/20
December 03, 2020 19:43 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBCulture work is part of a developers job At Flatiron Health, the team thinks that getting IC’s to invest in the team culture is so important that they’ve built it into their career ladder. So I’ll be asking Cat why “culture work” (from onboarding and mentoring to planning hackathons and running socials) is everyone’s job and how it has helped her to build a cohesive and inclusive culture despite explosive growth of her engineering org. Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Serv...
Using ML/AI to Analyze Your Log Files with Christian Beedgen
December 02, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBAccording to Christian Beedgen CTO and co-founder of Sumo Logic, there is no magic bullet when it comes to innovation. His brain child, Sumo Logic, was founded to empower digital business through real-time analytics delivered as a service. On this week’s episode of CTO Connection, Christian and Peter chat about the future of log files and where machine learning fits in. Christian also discusses his long road toward becoming a founder and CTO. Take a listen to the episode. (01:11) - Falling...
Using Data Science to Deliver Tangible Business Outcomes with Ian Wong
October 08, 2020 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBCompanies have largely figured out software. Data science, however, seems to be the new frontier. Many data scientists are coming from largely academic backgrounds and maybe don’t understand how to function at jobs in the private sector. Today’s guest is Ian Wong, co-founder and CTO of Opendoor. He chatted with Peter about the questions data scientists can ask themselves to better align their work with tangible business outcomes. Ian also discussed how the pandemic has led his team to talk ...
API-First Companies with Paolo Negri
October 01, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBContent should be both structure driven, and easily integrate with software. But most Content Management Systems are legacy systems that are not intuitive and clunky. Paolo Negri, co-founder and CTO of Contentful, was an early adopter of GraphQL. This week on CTO Connection, Paolo talked to Peter about why GraphQL works so well for content and why organizations should strive to be API-driven. Tune in for his thoughts on management. (01:12) - Paolo's journey to building an org (04:42) - Li...
Globally Distributed Teams vs. Remote Teams with Gustavo Niemeyer
September 24, 2020 20:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBThanks to the pandemic, many people are getting their first taste of working remotely. But for Gustavo Niemeyer of Canonical, having a globally distributed team is just a way of life. On this week’s episode of CTO Connection, he discusses the pros, cons, and considerations for companies considering globally distributed teams. Further, Gustavo talks to Peter about managing teams looking to solve big, open-ended problems, why finding motivated employees is key, and why he is a proponent of gl...
Why Building for Flexibility is the New Paradigm with Julien Lemoine
September 17, 2020 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBSites like Squarespace and Shopify have simplified the design and engineering process for people who either don’t have the technical skills or the resources to hire a team of engineers. However, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for the tools a business will need. Julien Lemoine is the co-founder and CTO of Algolia, a hosted search platform. He joined Peter for a discussion on API and customization. Listen as Julien discusses why things are trending toward customization and greater fle...
Building Robust Commerce Platforms with Justin Dean
September 10, 2020 20:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBWhen Justin Dean was placed as a network engineer in the Marine Corps, he had no idea that this would lead to a career helping legacy and emerging businesses shape what is possible in network engineering. Justin is currently the CTO and CIO of Weedmaps, a website that helps customers find local weed dispensaries and helps dispensaries stay in compliance with state regulations. Today, Justin takes us through his jobs at Shopzilla and Ticketmaster before arriving at the industry changing Weed...
Effective Mentorship in Early Stage Startups with Rob De Feo
September 03, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBRob De Feo has spoken to more than 500 startups over the last few years in his role as a startup advocate. These experiences have given him insider knowledge on the patterns leaders in startups face as well as best practices that have helped businesses reach scale. This week on CTO Connection, Rob takes Peter behind the curtain of life as a startup advocate. They also discuss their biggest career advice: searching for roles based on tasks rather than titles. Tune in for Rob’s insights. (01...
Attracting Great Talent with Ashish Aggarwal
August 27, 2020 20:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIf you’re a startup or any company that doesn’t have vast name recognition, attracting top talent can be a key concern. Ashish Aggarwal cut his teeth at Microsoft, Amazon, and Postmates so when the time came to start his own company, Productiv, he knew how to get the right people for the job. Ashish spoke candidly about his past experiences and how they have helped shape Productiv. He shared with Peter the two things that attract top talent: challenging problems to solve and the opportunity...
Why Customer Centricity is Key to Company Culture with Raj Sethuraman
August 20, 2020 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBAccording to Raj Sethuraman, good technology cannot be a successful technology unless it solves customer problems and drives great business outcomes. Raj is currently CTO at Wolters Kluwer and got his start at Intuit. The common thread throughout his career has been establishing customer-centricity to better inform technical decisions. He is our guest this week on CTO Connection and talked to Peter about a program he likes called “Follow Me Home” in which he and other team members sit down ...
Growing Individuals on Your Team with Greg Thomas
August 13, 2020 20:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBGreg Thomas is the author of the book, Code Your Way Up. Over the course of his 20 years in software development, he found that there was a void when it comes to developing individuals on a team into leadership and management roles. Greg joined Peter to talk about some of the most important principles discussed in his book. He discusses why feedback isn’t always a pat on the back and shares three questions you should be asking when you join or build a new team. Listen for his advice. (01:3...
Improving Communication between CEOs and CTOs with David Subar
August 06, 2020 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIn any industry, communication is a key factor in a team’s success. For CTOs navigating complex problems, effective communication between all stakeholders is paramount. David Subar is both a Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Interna Consulting. He joined Peter to discuss common patterns that result in communication breakdowns. David shares some of the clashes that can happen when a CEO’s vision is not in alignment with the metrics or working style of the team. He also di...
Building a Team of 10x Engineers with Fleming Shi
July 30, 2020 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBFleming Shi has been with Barracuda Networks for more than 15 years. In that time, there has been a profound shift and evolution in the tools and security systems that power his engineering team. He joined Peter for this week’s edition of CTO Connection to discuss his journey to CTO as well as the many changes he’s witnessed over the years. Listen for Fleming’s thoughts on keeping up with trends as well as the character traits of 10xer engineers. (01:27) - Fleming's career journey (04:17)...
How to Build a Data Science Team with Jon Morra
July 23, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBData science has increasingly become an integral part of the technical makeup of organizations. However, most CTOs don’t have experience building a data science component from scratch. Jon Morra got his start in data science at eHarmony when most technical teams did not have any researchers. He joins Peter today on CTO Connection to offer advice on how to build a research team from the ground up. Jon discusses why you want to bring on researchers who are generalists and why it is imperative...
What Does a VP of Engineering Do With Alexandra Paredes
July 16, 2020 20:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBVP of Engineering is an expansive position. But what is it really like on the granular level? Alexandra Paredes is the VP of Engineering at Code Climate and joined Peter to discuss how she approaches the hiring process, keeps her team on track, and navigates metrics such as cycle time and code review involvement. Tune in to hear Alexandra’s thoughts on communication and transparency as well as mentoring new engineers to ensure they ask the right questions from the start. [01:28] - Alexand...
Tackling Burnout as a CTO with Andy Skipper
July 09, 2020 20:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBWorking nonstop without delegating is not a sustainable way to live or work. Such habits often lead to burnout. CTOs in particular struggle with this problem. Many are young, inexperienced, or desirous of being part of a shippable product to relinquish control. Andy Skipper was once such a CTO himself. Now he coaches and mentors other CTOs with his company, CTO Craft. Andy joined Peter for this week’s episode of CTO Connection to discuss what burnout is, how to identify it, and what tools y...
Managing Technical Debt with James Smith
July 02, 2020 18:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBAccording to James Smith, CEO of Bugsnag, caring about customer experience is what makes for a better software developer. This is especially important when managing technical debt. Today on CTO Connection, James shares his experience and discusses his approach toward technical debt from both the developer and client perspectives. James shares why he believes overcommunication is key and how carving out time can help your team achieve a manageable sprint cadence. Listen for more. [01:26] - ...
How to Enact Change Within a Company with Andrew Fawcett
June 25, 2020 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBLet’s say you join a new organization. How would you spend your first hundred days if you were to figure out how to enact change and implement your own priorities? Our guest this week on CTO Connection is Andrew Fawcett, CTO of Avantica. Andrew has worked with companies of all sizes and has seen some truly amazing changes made, but also has run into those that lacked vision. Andrew sat down with Peter to discuss some of the reasons why companies have such a hard time with change as well as ...
Using Engineering Metrics in a Healthy Way with Dalia Havens
June 18, 2020 20:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBWe all want our companies to succeed so it’s easy to get fixated on numbers that we believe will help us judge our efforts. However, according to Dalia Havens of Netlify, metrics need to be optimized to give you a full picture of company or project health. Today, Dalia talks to Peter about using metrics in a healthy way that can empower and help solve problems. She also discusses why a consistent delivery pattern will give you the most insight into your operation. Listen to her thoughts. ...
A Playbook for Starting a Startup with Bob Friday
June 11, 2020 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBWhen we think of startups we think of charismatic entrepreneurs plugging away on their passions. But what does it really take to form a startup? Our guest this week on CTO Connection is Bob Friday, CTO of Mist, a Juniper Company. Bob is a veteran who has been through the startup process many times. He talked to Peter about the thought processes that go into crafting both teams and entire organizations. Bob also talks about the formula behind the process new ventures will go through and whic...
From Private Company to IPO: Managing through Transformation with Rachana Kumar
May 28, 2020 20:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBWhen companies transition from private to IPO, there are bound to be challenges and learning curves. Rachana Kumar has worked in five countries, two of her positions were in the non-profit sector. These experiences helped her roll with the punches as her current employer, Etsy, has undergone a massive change over the last few years. Rachana is preparing for a talk on helping leaders navigate large organizational changes. In this week’s episode, she explains to Peter the three foundational t...
Continuous Learning in Engineering with Kwame Thomison
May 21, 2020 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBLearning doesn’t end once you’ve earned your degree. Developers and engineers must stay up to date with their skills and emerging technologies. But most of the time, employees are expected to take on this additional learning on their own. Our guest this week on CTO Connection is Kwame Thomison, a consultant and leadership coach formerly of Meebo, Facebook, and Asana. Kwame discusses different learning models that can be integrated into workplaces to create a strong culture of learning and c...