Patrick Kua is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience. His current mission is accelerating the growth of technical leaders through coaching, mentoring and training. He has had many years of hands-on experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and Building Evolutionary Architectures and runs the free popular newsletter for leaders in tech, “Level Up” (http://levelup.patkua.com) and the Tech Lead Academy, offering online training for technical leaders. You can find him online on twitter as @patkua or running his very popular “Shortcut to Tech Leadership” and "Engineering Manager Essentials" workshops.
My current personal mission is to accelerate the journey of leaders in tech through teaching, coaching and mentoring. This all started out more than 10 years ago, when I looked at building support material for future technical leaders - something I missed when I first stepped into my first technical leadership role. Join me as I reflect on a decade of helping other technical leaders where I'll sha...
Congratulations! You’re now a Tech Lead? But what are you supposed to do differently than when you were a software engineer? Many companies do not prepare people to transition into a new role that demands new skills. In this course, we will explore the definition of a Tech Lead, understand the different skills required to be an effective Tech Lead and learn some tools that you can immediately appl...