Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Assuming the candidate passes muster on those counts, the individual can expect very positive short- and long-term impacts on their careers by taking up this emerging IT leadership role, he says. What is a chief AI officer? Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co.,

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2023

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax Everyone has a point of view on leadership. After 20+ years in tech and speaking with leaders from many of the world’s most recognized brands and fastest-growing startups, I’ve learned that the most important thing about leadership is: Be yourself. in engineering from Arizona State University.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

To the chief technology officer of SupPlant, which supplies farmers with critical agronomic insights, the more real-time weather, plant, soil, and water data the company’s solution can gather, the bigger the improvements in crop yield and productivity for customers. Digital Transformation, IT Leadership

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Postulka is an example of a boomerang IT leader — professionals who leave a company, gain experience elsewhere, and then return in a higher tech leadership position. Kevin Miller, CTO of the Americas, IFS IFS A little over a year later, however, Miller returned to IFS as an associate vice president and is now CTO of the Americas.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Appointed as CTO, he was immersed in a non-profit feeling the brunt. Agile methodologies helped things tick over, too, as well as planning work into weekly chunks, and having the technology team collaborate in daily stand-ups. Agile for the ROH was the engine room of our delivery,” says Whitebread. “It

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Commit , a Vancouver, Canada-based startup that has a unique approach to matching up engineers looking for a new job to early-stage startups that want to hire them, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round. They raised money, but their biggest challenge was getting an engineer to join them,” Gunn explained.

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Modern CTO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today we’re talking to Valentin Vaduva, CTO at Enghouse Networks. We discuss Val’s challenge of starting a new life in Canada with ten thousand dollars in debt, how he rose up to become a technology leader, and what it really means to be a CTO in 2024. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2023

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

However, Instacart this morning announced a slew of promotions inside of its senior leadership, and given that the company filed for an IPO — albeit privately — we’re paying extra attention. In that vein, the multi-unicorn is also promoting its vice president of engineering, Varouj Chitilian, to the CTO role.

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CTO Academy

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Three months ago, Justin embarked on a pivotal journey as the new Head of Engineering at a startup, following the departure of the previous CTO. Yet, the path to leadership is often riddled with unexpected twists.

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Modern CTO

MARCH 18, 2024

We also dive into Brendan’s thoughts behind GenAI code, and how tech leaders can best prepare their teams and organizations for the future of this technology. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Researching and developing software engineering analytics and automated software maintenance.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Leadership is responsible for boosting morale and countering stressful times with periods of recovery, rest, and self-care, resulting in increased retention while reducing burnout.” This will show the team that leadership has put real consideration behind the approach and is willing to assist when needed.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In our inaugural episode, Michael “Siko” Sikorski, CTO and VP of Engineering and Threat Intelligence at Unit 42 answers that question and speaks to the profound influence of artificial intelligence in an interview with David Moulton, Director of thought leadership for Unit 42. What’s Sikorski’s critical concern?

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Modern CTO

MARCH 4, 2024

Today we’re talking to Gil Feig, Co-Founder at Merge, and Daniel Marashlian, Co-Founder & CTO at Drata. Their conversation is a roadmap for aspiring CTOs, emphasizing innovation and strategic partnerships. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Merge, visit their website here.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. This unique mix of senior engineer plus agile manager doesn’t come easy or naturally for anyone. We’ve collected a few of the best tech leadership books, so you can dive in with the best chance of success.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Lain McGrath, benefits engineer, Gusto. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. Careers, IT Leadership I firmly believe in prioritizing human capital.”

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I am thrilled to share with you that Honeycomb now has a Field CTO: our very own Liz Fong-Jones. When Liz joined us, nearly four years ago, she was our first developer advocate and principal engineer. As Field CTO, Liz will spend more of her time working with the executive teams at our strategic customers (and soon-to-be customers).

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 31, 2021

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. This unique mix of senior engineers plus agile managers doesn’t come easy or naturally for anyone. We’ve collected a few of the best tech leadership books, so you can dive in with the best chance of success.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I’ve been writing about how life is different for software company CIOs for years — more specifically, on how they must make clearer distinctions between IT and product engineering than it is now for CIOs in other industries. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Godot editor demo. ” The open source factor. Distributed.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. Those working in IT management, including the roles of CIO, CTO, VP, and IT Director, hold high-level positions that oversee an entire company’s technology infrastructure. increase from 2021.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

This demand has driven up salaries for IT roles, especially those around development, engineering, and support. Businesses are looking for tech pros with highly specialized skills, as they embrace digital transformation and increasingly rely on technology for core business. Average salary: US$120,653 Increase since 2021: 15.6%

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

The company said he had also quit its board of directors, which had appointed COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs while seeking a replacement for him. Mostaque’s concerns about the centralization of generative AI are understandable, but not everyone is convinced that’s really what’s going on in the industry now.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

They have established business relationship management functions , developed “we are the business” rallying cries, and built leadership development programs emphasizing influence, courage, and business acumen. At that point, my role in capabilities management recedes, and the CTO position becomes more important.”

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I even got this particular section framed and hung up at our office: Your mission Let's say you were employed as a CTO behind the front lines and you wanted to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Blame the previous CTO.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. IT Leadership, IT Strategy Still, when all is said and done, some key metrics stand out above the rest for accurately measuring IT success. Here they are.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

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).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. No rights for them.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To prepare for this worst-case scenario, Mastercard launched its Quantum Security and Communications project, which earned the company a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. The premise is that since only the receiver has the private key, the transaction is secure.

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TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. But at a minimum, any good review should include: Straightforward Analysis : A straightforward report that grades aspects of your technology, processes, and team. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer. Does the code follow best practices?

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Founders often transition to executive chairman roles as their companies grow, pivot or require new leadership as the business shifts from a private startup to a public company. Instacart shakes up its leadership structure as the market awaits its IPO. Prior CTO Mark Schaaf is leaving the company, TechCrunch reported.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Starburst , the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on data lake analytics. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2022

Sovereignty means having true control from A to Z – from the physical hardware and services that are located here in the Netherlands, to the engineers operating workloads, and everything that is under their orchestration and management. Our customers can consult with one of our engineers within minutes on any day and at any time,” he says.

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CIO

MARCH 23, 2023

The words of one software engineer illustrate why: “(With Copilot,) I have to think less, and when I have to think it’s the fun stuff. But it’s arguably the perspective of one chief technology officer that tees up the call to action best: “The engineers’ satisfaction with doing edgy things and us giving them edgy tools is a factor for me.

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