SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed. Strategic Technical Advisor. Tactical Technical Advisor.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 27, 2020

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: “ The difference between a software developer and a software engineer is the same as the difference between a c**k and penis. ”?—?Unknown. Justin Pincar Founder & CTO of Achievable. Honestly, being called a software engineer or a developer is fine. fair enough.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations often get services and applications up and running without having put stewardship in place,” says Marc Johnson, CISO and senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a healthcare management consulting firm. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake. It will not be something they can ignore.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Bajaj worked as an ML Tech Lead at Meta and San Mateo-based software development company Reflektion after completing his master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. It’s also looking to onboard advisors who can help promote the platform and expand its reach.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

“It requires engaging stakeholders across the organization, not just within IT, and having expertise in both the legacy application and the cloud you’re moving to,” says Steve Woodgate, strategic advisor at managed cloud service provider Navisite. Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Containers, Microservices, Software Development

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We dove into publicly available information and talked to a number of product managers and those who hire, supervise, and mentor them in order to get a sense of what you can expect in this job market — and how you can improve your prospects and your compensation if you’re working in this field. Do product managers make good money?

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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager. This book is ideal whether you’re a new manager, a mentor, or a more experienced leader looking for fresh advice. Mantle, Ron Lichty Mantle.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team. Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Her comments tallied with the BCS/CBF research, which found that Black women rarely advanced into more senior technology roles, with women of all ethnicities poorly represented at IT director (17%) and programmer/software developer level (16%). Editor’s note: BCS did not have figures for Black women in these roles. ]

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

My first instinct was to provide a technical answer, but then I quickly realized that if I answered the question that way to the board of directors, I’d be shown the virtual elevator down to the CTO morgue. Nothing baffles the board more than a long string of techno-babble mumbo-jumbo.”

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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Modern CTO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! I am a trusted advisor with extensive experience leading managers and contributors of superior client care as they support employee adoption and resilience in the ever-changing information technology environment. For more about Gartner, check out their website here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Other angels that have backed the company include Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field, Very Good Security co-founder Mahmoud Abdelkader, startup advisor Elad Gil and early Stripe employee and Cocoon co-founder Amber Feng.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

LONDON 2022 , a conference that brings together developers and internationally renowned speakers to thoroughly examine new technologies and industry best practices. Conferences have joined forces with GOTO , a leading software development conference, to take the experience to the next level, so you do not want to miss this event.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. Now I have consciously tapped into the R&D space, product development and the DevOps segment. Our strong CTO structure and advanced technology teams are committed to problem solving.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 22, 2022

Christian Ciceri – Software Architect & Co-founder of Apiumhub. Christian Ciceri is a software architect and cofounder at Apiumhub , a software development company known for software architecture excellence. a nationally recognized training and development firm. Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. And I use it all the time now when I get the kind of message that I received: I'm looking for a web developer to continue work on my website.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Madan founded Nightfall in 2018 alongside CTO Rohan Sathe. Isaac was previously a VC investor at Venrock, where he focused on early-stage investments in software as a service, security and machine learning. Rohan was one of the founding engineers at Uber Eats, where he designed and built software to grow the platform’s footprint.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” It’s lovely when managers can play this role for their teams, but we also have to remember that they are humans with their own problems who are not trained as therapists or even coaches.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

Often considered a tech guru of the company or the smartest programmer in the room, the title of CTO alone indicates that the company is doing something big with technology. With this article, we’ll dip a toe into the field of the multiple responsibilities of an average CTO. The role of CTO. CTO’s tasks and responsibilities.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Find a lawyer and someone who does CTO searches for VC backed companies in your area. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ? What type of shares?

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GreenBar

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

On the other hand, I’ve been building software for over 30 years and managing software developers for 25. If you’re a non- (or not very) technical startup founder and need to build software, your needs may be better met by a software contractor. Taking the first delivery of your software happens once.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Find a lawyer and someone who does CTO searches for VC backed companies in your area. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ? What type of shares?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 23, 2010

I’ve come to realize that I have lots of posts around startup software development scattered around in different posts. How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup Thought it would be good to capture them in one spot and also include links to related posts from other sources.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. While You Are Building Your MVP Look for the following Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. And when you have Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 12, 2021

His main work is software development consulting, which combines actually writing code with advising clients on how to do that better. about Mutation Testing, ACRUMEN (his new definition of software quality), some differences between Functional and Object Oriented programming,etc. Currently, he is the T. Twitter: [link].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system?

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Agile42

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As we wrote above that they have already been applying Scrum practices, they were facing challenges and difficulties, so they decided to get coaching support. It was at this time that Zingat's CTO and Product Director came across our blogpost Scrum Antipatterns and thought that we were the right partner to support them.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 27, 2010

There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and in Startup CTO or Developer. This is somewhat the heart of what a CTO does. You have to determine in-house vs. outside development and what parts of the problem each person will do.

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Apiumhub

APRIL 18, 2019

The JBCNConf 2019 speakers will discuss the great advances that Java has experienced in recent years as it is the programming language chosen by more than 9 million developers around the world. As professionals in their sector, they created the event with the goal of putting Barcelona in the international software development map.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Immediately the CTO jumps in and says they could build a recommendation engine to suggest items customers may be interested in; a 10% increase in sales thanks to product recommendations is definitely achievable. The CEO loves the idea and wants the CTO to work out the details with the team to figure out what they need to make it happen.

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

Even the most ‘brick and mortar’ businesses do a lot if not the majority of their customer interactions via software (even if it’s B2B) and therefore your organisation should think of software as the primary means of revenue generation. Forcing ‘project thinking’ onto software development is a bad idea.

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