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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. What does the role demand?

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The hidden benefits of adding a CTO to your board

TechCrunch

Abby Kearns , chief technology officer at Puppet , has more than 20 years of experience scaling growth for numerous Fortune 500 and startup companies. In a time of chaos and change, there is no senior leader that can navigate this sort of change better than a CTO. Abby Kearns. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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#774 Cultivating Developer Joy with Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Rajeev Rajan Rajeev Rajan is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Atlassian.

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Broadcom Software CTO: Charting a Course to Software Modernization

CIO

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software. Broadcom Software CTO Andy Nallappan. We leaned into a number of important engineering practices to facilitate our software modernization journey. This article was originally published here by Andy Nallappan.

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Decoding Code Review and Pull Requests - a handbook for Software Engineers and Tech Leads

A complete handbook on implementing a code review culture in your organization. Written by Elaine Watanabe, it's a practical e-book with useful examples and references, and a must-read for all tech teams.

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How Plaid’s CTO grew his engineering team 17.5x in 4 years

TechCrunch

The first group of engineers has an “all hands on deck” mentality, and they’ll do whatever needs to be done to make the product happen. As you add more talent, you’ll have to organize your engineering team into more logical groups. We talked to Greze to get some answers.

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Exadel Expands Executive Team with Appointment of Chief Technology Officer Oleg Boyko and Chief Revenue Officer Marc Caponegro

DevOps.com

Boyko and Caponegro bring decades of experience in their respective fields to support Exadel’s rapidly growing digital transformation and software engineering solutions and services WALNUT CREEK, Calif.,

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Success Story: Swiss Insurtech Company Hires a Remote CTO from Ukraine

Ability to build, scale and shrink the team very fast, combined with the very best software engineering talent, made it a perfect mix of reasons why the company has made these decisions.

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How Top Engineering Leaders Build High-Performance Teams That Deliver Results

The primary responsibilities of Engineering Leadership - essentially, VPs of Engineering and CTOs - are building high-performance teams and delivering high-quality products on time, which together drive business results.