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Tech Leaders Hub by STX Next episodes
- To build multiple successful startups, build well-balanced teams with Harlan Beverly, Mercado Labs | TLH #32
“When I’m building a team, what I want are team members who can take on any task.” – Harlan Beverly, VP of Engineering at Mercado Labs, author of “Navigating Your Way to Startup Success”
The key to a successful startup—and a successful business in general—is the team that’s leading it, as well as the teams of individual contributors delivering great work every day.
If you want to learn how to build a well-rounded team that can take on any challenge, this Tech Leaders Hub session is for you.
Our guest was Harlan Beverly, VP of Engineering at Mercado Labs and author of “Navigating Your Way to Startup Success”. Harlan has a wealth of experience in building and scaling startups, and was sharing his secrets to repeatable startup success.
We've discussed:
- How Harlan managed to build five successful startups
- How to balance engineers and QA
- How to balance in-house team members vs contractors
- Why the full-stack approach allows you to address the market faster
- How you can apply Agile outside of engineering to make the whole company move faster
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1 hr 7 min - The top three challenges faced by high-level tech executives with Jason Noble, CTO Academy | TLH #31
You’re facing way too many challenges as a tech leader to be able to deal with them all—so where do you start?
Perhaps it makes sense to listen to someone who’s in the business of working with technology leaders around the world to help them negotiate leadership challenges and achieve their optimal career impact.
Jason Noble, Co-Founder at CTO Academy and our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, has spent years engaging with high-level tech executives in 86 countries and has a highly nuanced understanding of the challenges they face.
For this talk he identifies three of the key challenges consistent to tech leaders he has worked with around the world and he’s agreed to join Tech Leaders Hub to tell us how to address them.
We discussed about:
- The most important problems Jason has identified by talking with CTOs and through building CTO Academy
- Why the most popular CTO Academy modules say a lot about mindset, as well as challenges
- Why effective tech leadership is rarely about the tech
- The unknown unknowns that tech leaders might not even know how to identify
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59 min - Agile and leadership in emergency logistics with Thilo Seliger, Airspace | TLH #30
When you’re an engineering leader in the business of transporting critical parcels like human organs across the world as fast as possible, can you still approach your software development in an agile way?
Thilo Seliger, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, is the Director of Engineering Europe at @Airspace, where his team is building software for one of the most high-stakes industries in the world: emergency logistics.
Airspace arranges transportation of critical spare parts to make sure that factories can keep running—and your airplane can take off when there’s a sudden malfunction.
They also provide critical healthcare shipments, where speed of delivery can mean the difference between life and death.
Thilo built Airspace’s European Engineering team from scratch and not only is the team working in a very complex domain, but they also need to collaborate with development teams on the other side of the world while trying to be as autonomous as possible.
That’s the challenge that Thilo and his team have been engaged with, leveraging his experience brought in from companies like @Temenos @ING Deutschland, @time:matters, and @Zettle by PayPal
Watch this episode to learn about Thilo’s approach and benefit from his experience!
We discussed about these topics:
- Learnings from building engineering teams from scratch and leading in different business domains
- The unique complexities of software development in the emergency logistics industry—and how to navigate them as a leader
- The lessons from emergency logistics that can be applied to other software development situations
- Challenges with Agile in conservative industries like logistics and banking and how it developed over time
- When you shouldn’t use an Agile approach
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1 hr 1 min - Metaverse and Web3: What all tech leaders should know about them with Keren Chavkin, AIME | TLH #29
Question: What is something that JPMorgan, McDonald’s and Snoop Dogg are all investing in?
Answer: The metaverse! 🥽🕹📹
In our latest Tech Leaders Hub session we’re diving deep into the cutting edge of tech and business. Our guest took us on a journey through the landscape of metaverse and Web3, and explained why it’s high time to become aware of what’s coming in the industry—and what’s already here.
Our guide was Keren Chavkin Lior, CEO at AIME, a startup building an AI tool for the metaverse.
Keren brings in a whopping 17 years experience from HSBC—where she was Head of Enterprise Architecture and headed up the Innovation Lab of HSBC Europe, among others—as well as 5 years of experience as an entrepreneur.
We had a lot to discuss with Keren! Including:
- What the metaverse and Web3 are, exactly
- Why companies like Nvidia, Apple, and Meta are making big investments in the metaverse
- Why you should pay close attention to the metaverse and Web3 even if you’re not planning to actively invest in them
- The opportunities the metaverse presents to business leaders
- How AI can help solve the challenges of the metaverse
- How crypto plays into the metaverse
- How analytics work in the metaverse
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts
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1 hr 4 min - Hybrid work, the modern workforce, and beyond with Ender Yüksel, SimCorp | TLH #28
The way we work has been changing at an incredible pace. When some members of the same team are dialing in remotely from different time zones while others are sitting together in a conference room, flexibility is the name of the game
On top of that, a new generation is joining the workforce who want more freedom in what they do at work and when they do it.
Put it all together and you get an environment in which leaders have to adapt fast to find new ways to improve the flow of information and get everyone rowing in the same direction.
Ender Yüksel, PhD, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, is a Director, Development Manager at SimCorp. He’s an experienced leader and manager with lots of actionable advice to share for anyone who wants to structure their teams better, make work flow more effectively, and keep employees from all generations happy and productive.
We’ve discussed:
- Why the career ladder has become more of a career jungle, especially for the new generation
- How working with Gen Z is different and how tech leaders should adapt to it
- How to create effective teamwork when working with distributed teams in a hybrid work environment
- How individual contributors can achieve higher ranks in an organization without becoming managers
Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next!
Website: https://stxnext.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/
Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse
1 hr 3 min - Building better teams through peer leadership with Anders Kring, Lunar | TLH #27
“Leadership should not be something reflected in the org chart. It’s something people do to each other.” – Anders Kring, Head Of Technology, Banking Operations at Lunar
At Lunar, managers don’t hire new team members. The team does.
Even before new hires join, they’ve already spoken with 4+ colleagues and begun to build a trust-based relationship with them.
And even though the manager serves as an initial filter of candidates, it’s the team that ultimately decides who joins and who doesn’t.
This is peer leadership in action. And it’s the topic that our next Tech Leaders Hub session revolved around.
Our guest was Anders Kring, an engineering leader with over 20 years’ experience currently serving as Head Of Technology, Banking Operations at Lunar, a Nordics-based fintech company building a single platform to control all of your finances so you can get more power from your money. The company has offices in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, more than 500.000 users and over 600 employees.
We've discussed:
- How to build trust within your teams through peer leadership
- How to get your developers to share in the responsibility of hiring new people and become deeply invested in new team members’ success
- How peer leadership helps address depression and burnout
- Why leaders should respect the gigantic impact they have on their people
Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next!
Website: https://stxnext.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/
Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse
1 hr 2 min - How to change the thinking of an entire engineering organization with Søren Bjørnbo Engel, Linkfire | TLH #26
You can debug an organization just like you debug code. And breaking up monoliths applies not just to applications, but also to teams.
Intrigued?
We’ve got a very special Tech Leaders Hub session in store for you with Søren Bjørnbo Engel, Head of Engineering at Linkfire.
Søren has hands-on experience with making major technological changes happen in big organizations. The kind of changes that require everyone—from the CEO through team leaders all the way to junior developers—to pay attention and change the way they’re doing things.
The kind of change that would make any tech leader break into a cold sweat just thinking about the scope, and the effort and communication that will be required for it.
It’s also the kind of change that dramatically changes not just the organization’s software, but also the organization itself, including the way teams are organized and connected.
Bringing to bear his experience from Linkfire as well as companies such as Sitecore, Pentia, and Netcompany, Søren shared how to successfully navigate through such a transformation, down to all the details you may want to know about.
We've discussed:
- Change management: how to reshape people’s minds to think in a different way
- How to break teams down so they can work at a high pace with a controlled number of useful connections
- How to get sponsorship and buy-in for big tech changes from top leadership all the way to junior developers
- How to rebuild internal educational efforts to build the new skill sets needed by the change
- How to talk with other departments such as product, marketing and sales and bring them in on the change
Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next!
Website: https://stxnext.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/
Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse
1 hr 2 min - How to pay off systems debt in your organization with Alishah Novin, Microsoft | TLH #25
“Is this harder than it needs to be?” - that’s the guiding question that our next Tech Leaders Hub guest encourages leaders and team members to ask to identify systems debt in their organization.
Is systems debt the same as tech debt? Not quite. But you can be sure that the more systems debt you have, the more likely you are to accumulate unmanageable amounts of tech debt—as well as grind delivery to a halt.
To save tech leaders worldwide from this very scenario we’re teamed up with Alishah Novin, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, as our next Tech Leaders Hub guest.
Alishah to bear over a decade of engineering leadership experience and a history of making a tremendous impact at companies such as Cognizant and Celero Commerce. He’s also extremely passionate about helping people find jobs as software engineers.
But that’s not all. If you’ve ever seen someone on LinkedIn with the #OpenToHelping frame on their profile, Alishah is the one who came up with it—and got a modest 2 million views / 21,000 reactions on his LinkedIn post when he did!
Be sure to tune in to our session, where we have discussed about:
- What systems debt is, how it differs from tech debt, how it’s accrued, and how you pay it down
- What your Seniors should be doing to help you handle your systems debt
- Why you should plan for your Juniors leaving after as little as 18 months
- Why the way your team takes (or doesn’t take) breaks can help you diagnose systems debt
- Why you should hold Stupid Questions Only meetings
Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next!
Website: https://stxnext.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/
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1 hr 9 min - The love/hate relationship between fintechs and banks with Meital Raviv, Wallter | TLH Fintech #9
The tale of fintechs vs banks has captured the imagination of many in the financial sector. But should it be considered a straight-up rivalry, or is there possibility for co-existence and cooperation?
This question is especially interesting to ponder given the recent volatile movements in stock prices. So we decided to bring in an expert to comment on the current situation—and share advice on what fintechs should do to succeed (or even survive) in 2022.
Meital Raviv, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, brings 20 years of experience in the financial market and deep insight into its inner workings.
Meital is currently Deputy CEO of Wallter, a leading European Electronic Money Institution licensed by the Bank of Lithuania and placed among the top 10 leading EMIs in Lithuania.
But Meital’s career started on the tech side of things as a developer before transitioning to gradually more business-oriented executive roles at organizations including Bank Leumi (CDO), KPMG Israel (Head of Fintech & innovation), and Bank Hapoalim (Head of Digital Strategy, Open Banking, Innovation Lab and Fintech innovation).
Meital is also a Member Of The Management Board at CityTLV - The Gateway to Greater TLV International Financial Center, which is a partnership for the promotion of Greater Tel-Aviv as an international financial and fintech center.
We've discussed:
- How to handle the increased risk resulting from the current situation in the market
- Why fintechs vs banks is a love/hate relationship
- The mistakes Meital has seen fintechs make over and over again, and how to avoid them
Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next!
Website: https://stxnext.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse
1 hr 5 min - Advice for first-line managers with Itai Rosenblatt, Google | TLH #24
Itai Rosenblatt is an Engineering Manager at Google where his team works on complex database migration solutions.
He was also the guest on Tech Leaders Hub!
Our session was focused on the struggles of first-line managers, and how best to navigate the transition from individual contributor to first-line (and eventually second-line) manager.
Itai knows exactly what that's like. Before Google he went from being a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco to starting on the leader’s path at ScaleIO (a software defined storage company), which is now part of Dell technologies.
He was also a startup founder and he still runs Ace the Code Interview, providing mentorship for technical interviews.
Taking all of the above together, Itai brought with him a real treasure trove of knowledge that you can benefit from by watching this session!
We've discussed:
– Why you need a support group as a manager (and how to find one)
– What to do to create your own opportunities in your career
– Why you need to stop chasing cows and build fences
– Itai’s current #1 book recommendation for managers
Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next!
Website: https://stxnext.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/
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About Tech Leaders Hub by STX Next
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Interviews with tech leaders about their experiences, challenges, and tips they can share with others in similar roles.