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Becoming a CTO

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

I started as a developer and followed a traditional path of moving up to more senior levels on the development track and then moving to lead, engineering manager, director, VP, and now chief technology officer. I’ve worked at a hundred-thousand-person company, seed-stage startups, and many of the variants in-between.

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Reading List: 2019 Edition

Daniel Bryant

I promise that any proceeds will be exclusively used to buy more books :) Without further ado… Paper books (and Kindle) GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon (..)

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Our Engineering Apprentice Journey

Tandem

These tools include client-facing project-based learning, bi-monthly classes structured around your needs and our skillsets, non-billable hours to explore topics of your choice, a designated mentor, an engineering manager, structured feedback loops, and an entire team ready and excited to work with you. Graduation.