From Software Engineer to CTO: What Actually Changes
Subhadeep Datta on going from software engineer to tech lead to co-founder and CTO: the skills that stop mattering, the ones that start, and advice.
Career articles
2 articles about Career, written from hands-on experience building and scaling production systems.
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How to Approach a System Design Interview: A CTO's Framework
A step-by-step system design interview framework from a CTO who runs them: requirements, estimation, API and data design, deep dives and trade-offs.
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