Tech Leadership Deep Dives

AI is the big thing for any CTO these days. Marco and Raphael shared tips and tricks on how to introduce AI into your tech department. This not only includes simple support for coding, but also handling PII and PI data correctly, managing an AI budget, and using AI to manage your department as CTO.

Hiring is an essential topic for CTOs and leaders alike. Marco and Raphael dive deep into the topic and share tips and tricks of great hiring pipelines, the importance of career ladders for the process and metrics of a healthy pipeline. Book reference: Daniel Pink - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. https://www.danpink.com/books/drive/Concept: Amazon Bar Raiser program https://w...

Managing security is hard because a lack of security only becomes apparent to the business when a breach happens, and the business loses real money. In this episode, Marco and Raphael share secrets for managing security successfully as a leader in tech. From managing and defending security topics on the board level to making security a first-class citizen and running pen tests at scale. A few link...

From a small team with frontend backend, to a growing organization with fullstack teams, staff engineers and end to end responsibility. Shaping your tech department the right way - at the right time - is crucial for business success. Let's explore! # References ## Books ### Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps - **Authors:** Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim - **Website:...

In this episode of the Tech Leadership Deep Dive, your hosts -Marco and Raphael - dig into what “tech debt” really looks like in the real world, why it quietly builds up, and how it can eventually slow (or even sink) a company if it’s not actively managed. A few highlights that stood out: ➡️ Tech debt shows up as “we’re suddenly slow”: shipping goes from multiple deploys/day → weekly → monthly, QA...

In this first episode, we unpack “Leadership Levels” in software engineering: ➡️ How responsibilities shift from IC → Team Lead/EM → Director/Head → VP/CTO ➡️ Why “leaders who still code too much” can become bottlenecks (even with the best intentions) ➡️ How to set clear expectations with career frameworks (and why that changes everything) ➡️ Promotions without the Peter Principle: acting roles, d...