Tech Leaders Hub by STX Next

When you’re scaling fast, you need to learn to make things happen through other people: your team.

You may have been a “hands-on” CTO in the past, but that model won’t work when you enter into the hypergrowth phase.

If you feel it’s time to start empowering your developers to become leaders themselves, our next live session will be perfect for you.

Our guest will be Alvaro Moya, founder of Lidr.co: a training program for tech leaders featuring mentors from companies like Paypal, Dropbox, and Typeform.

We’ll cover:

– what to do when you feel robbed of the time to properly train your people;

– how to transform from a “hands-on CTO” to a manager of managers;

– how to create a high-performing team of leaders that will make autonomous decisions, hire great people under them, and maintain the company culture.

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Cybersecurity is more important than ever—especially if you’re in fintech.

Destructive cybersecurity attacks against global financial institutions have surged by 118% over the past year, according to VMware

It’s time for tech leaders to prioritize cybersecurity—which is exactly why we made it the topic of our next live stream.

Joining us will be Aleksander Czarnowski, CEO at Defenselayers and AVETINS, an expert with over 23 years of experience in cybersecurity.

Topics we covered:

– the common cybersecurity mistakes fintechs are making;

– how you might be misallocating your cybersecurity budget (especially past Year One);

– how you can introduce a secure development lifecycle with privacy by default to prepare yourself against future threats;

– container and serverless computing security;

– compliance, GDPR, and dealing with the strict regulations in the financial sector.

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There’s a strong typical career path in software engineering: junior, regular, senior, tech lead, engineering manager, and then somewhere down the line: CTO.

But the CTO is really a business role with a technical background.

As the company scales, it’s less and less focused on software architecture and technical challenges.

Instead, a CTO ends up managing 5-6 direct reports, their calendar is filled with 1-on-1s, and their time taken up by strategic meetings, budgets, and hiring policies.

Shouldn’t there be a separate track for a different kind of leadership—leadership on a technical level?

That’s we talked about with Stuart Kelly, Staff Engineer (and former CTO) at Zego, a fast-growing company changing the face of insurtech.

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What is a 100x engineer? How can you lead your team members to achieve 100x the impact of a regular developer? How can you become a 100x engineer yourself? Part of the answer is to go beyond sheer programming talent.

Zef’s CV is a long story of engineering leadership: from Developer through VP of Engineering (twice!) through Senior Engineering Manager at Egnyte and Director of Engineering at OLX Group. And just this month, Zef moved to Mattermost as their new Engineering Lead. 

We’ll talk about his career path, his advice for engineering leaders, and of course about having the greatest possible impact on software development projects. Tune in live to ask Zef any question you want about his experience!

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“Ok Google, book me a test drive of the new Audi A3.”

You can now talk to your radio ads through your favorite smart speaker—all thanks to Wojciech Lichota, CTO at AdTonos.

Watch our interview, where we covered:

– What was the hardest part of introducing voice interface in advertising?

– In hindsight, what was his best move that helped him launch this new technology?

– How to get started with building software for voice assistants, like Alexa Skills and Google Actions?

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Getting what you want in a negotiation depends on your words, non-verbal cues, and your attitude. Get ready-to-use tips from Matthew Harris as he returns to our live show to help technical managers succeed in the toughest conversations.

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Google Analytics is not enough to get a useful picture of how your product is performing.

Join us as we discuss what metrics you should track and what tools you should use to collect data you can trust.

Our guests today are: 

- Paul Jurdeczka, Product Strategy Consultant @ STX Next

- Daniel Kościelski, Marketing Manager @ STX Next

Tune in and we'll make sure you'll never fly blind in the area of product analytics.

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We negotiate 3-7 times a day, every day—and that's just the number for regular people. Technical managers need to negotiate with employees, peers, vendors, and clients. Improving your negotiation skills will pay off sooner than you think.

Join us as we go over two negotiation techniques that you can practice every day and apply to every conversation, whether it's with your coworkers or your spouse.

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Is your company data-driven, or do you make business decisions based on gut feeling? You might want to think twice if it's the latter. After all, you can't improve what you don't measure. In other words, you need KPIs to make it happen. Join us for an episode where our VP of Engineering, Łukasz Koczwara, tells the story of how implementing KPIs transformed STX Next into a data-driven company.

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Łukasz Nowak talks about the problems that large organizations with multiple Scrum teams face—and how to address them.

Łukasz is an experienced IT manager with a rich perspective; for starters, he was Director of Product for Poland's largest online marketplace for over 5 years. On the other hand, he's also worked in the trenches, e.g. as a Product Owner of a single team.

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