Patrick Kua is a seasoned technology leader with almost 25 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.
The transition from being a high-performing Individual Contributor to an effective Engineering Manager is hard enough, even in the best of times. Today, engineering managers face even greater hurdles amid evolving technologies (LLMs, anyone?) and shifting organisational landscapes. Drawing from my experience training engineering managers worldwide, I will highlight some key trends, challenges and ...
Congratulations! You’re now leading a technical team! 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 what it means to be a technical leader, understand the different skills required to be an effective one and learn some tools that you can ...