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Becoming a CTO

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager.

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

CTOvision

Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. EzBake, DIAs Technology Agnostic Framework Under ORION that Enables Seamless Transition into ICITE. Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company. Sapan “Soup” Shah – Technical Director, 42Six a CSC Company.

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

CTOvision

Mike Olson – Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. 10:30 AM EzBake, DIAs Technology Agnostic Framework Under ORION that Enables Seamless Transition into ICITE. Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company.

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Gorilla Logic Adds Custom Software Development Center in Medellín, Colombia

Gorilla Logic

Leveraging the experience gained and the organization that’s in place in Costa Rica, we have built a second Nearshore Development Center in the tech- and culture-forward city of Medellín, Colombia. The Culture of Delivery That Makes This Possible. Talented and forward-looking engineers desire challenges and engaging projects.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. Let’s dissect an classic management objective: headcount goals. That then gets distributed across the org recursively, and every hiring manager gets a target for how many people to hire. Headcount goals.