Technology

My CTO job description

Reflecting on my job as a CTO at Voltz Motors and my current responsibilities

The skills trident

Soft and hard are useless mental models for categorising skills. Use this instead

Business driven mindset

What does it mean to have a business driven mindset? How important is it when scaling up?

Extreme Programming for millennials and gen-Z

Why do software projects fail? No, seriously. Why? And how to avoid disaster?

Different leadership models

Being a facilitator isn't enough. You need to be different, to enable others, to inspire and to make others grow so you can get replaced

Dealing with the problems of scaleups

How to deal with some of the problems that come with the sacrifices needed to scale a company that fast?

System Design 102

More basic System Design concepts every Software Engineer should understand

System Design 101

Basic System Design concepts every Software Engineer should understand

Compound Returns on Engineering Excellence

A simple initiative for working with your team and focus on the right points to improve Engineering Excellence

How to survive working at a startup

Startups are chaotic shit shows. Nothing makes sense. Ever. Even if sometimes it seems it does. How to survive in such an environment?

Incident management; not everything is critical

At some point in a Product Engineering team you will need to address some issues related to managing incidents. Not everything is critial and urgent

Dos and Don'ts for a Product Engineering team

The little brother of the Engineering Principles are the Dos and Don'ts. It's just a list of rules to evolve your team's mindset

Focus on value

I ask myself the same question every day. Does my work add value? Or am I moving rocks uphill just to let them fall and start all over again?

Improve code reviews without going pro

At some point in a Product Engineering team you will need to address some issues related to code reviews. You don't have to go pro to do it

Storytelling tips for technical interviews

Given the importance of stories to the human mind, it seems there is no better way to explore it. This applies for technical interviews too