Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations

In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a controversial topic: should your CTO still be writing production code? They examine the case of a former Google VP of Engineering who, upon becoming CTO of a mid-stage startup, stopped coding entirely — and how that decision actually improved engineering velocity. Lucas walks through the opportunity cost of CTOs writing co...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the controversial but common decision to let go of a top-performing individual contributor who undermined team culture. Using the real-world example of a senior engineer at a late-stage startup who shipped code faster than anyone but refused code reviews, hoarded knowledge, and burned out juniors, they break down the metrics that matter beyond output: bus fa...

Episode 2 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack a specific case study: a mid-market SaaS company whose CTO reduced monthly cloud spend from 2.4 million dollars to 1.4 million dollars over six quarters — without layoffs, without a cloud migration, and without hiring outside consultants. They walk through the exact three-phase playbook: mapping resource utilization by service tag, a...

In the debut episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a real-world crisis: a mid-stage SaaS startup whose AWS bill ballooned from $12,000 to $50 million per month in just 18 months. They explore how the CTO navigated the tension between growth and cost, the architectural decisions that led to the spike, and the cultural shift needed to bring engineering teams into financia...