After seeing the initiative Buser had to train people at home with the Buser Tech program (led by Renzo as Buser’s head of education), I wanted to approach them somehow — I didn’t know how or what to do, but I wanted to be part of the “party”.
I have helped many engineering people evolve professionally (that's 0.001%), but I have never trained anyone from scratch and I felt it was time to learn from those who have been doing it for a few years.
I have known Tony (ex-CTO of Buser) for many years, in late 2021 I took the liberty to message him and express my interest.
I didn’t feel comfortable coming into Buser to suck knowledge, so I proposed to join the engineering team as a developer and follow what is going on in Buser Tech.
In the 1:1 with Tony he shared with me that he was looking for someone to take over the CTO role at Buser. I confess I didn’t understand why he was sharing that with me, the only answer that came to me at the moment was:
“If you are saying this for me to be CTO you are saying it to the wrong person.”
Upon arriving and bumping into the software we developed at Buser I started to wonder how the folks in the Buser Tech program (with virtually zero software development experience) were going to get up the development environment that I with a few years of engineering experience was having some friction. I took this as my first challenge to reduce the friction of onboarding the engineering team by bringing a developer experience look.
After a few days/weeks I felt that we could improve our people and project management, I went to talk to Tony and made myself available to help as Tech Manager.
The subject of possibly being a CTO stayed in my mind for days and days, I even indicated a CTO for the position that unfortunately did not match, but life goes on, and my internal monsters kept haunting me about the CTO position.
Usually when I get a chill in my stomach it sounds like I am looking at a big challenge and there is a big unknown — especially what I need to evolve as a person and a manager, in this case a company with more than 500 people.
After being an entrepreneur for a few years, I don’t want to make a company from scratch until I reach 500 people (Buser’s current moment), but I am sure that the challenge of Scale-up a startup takes me closer to my professional goal.
Even though my stomach is chilly and I believe I have many skills to evolve, I am taking on the CTO position at Buser.
Is Tony leaving Buser? No, he is moving back closer to the engineering and education team — where he feels he delivers much better results for the company. See here the post he made publicly about this move (publication written in Portuguese).
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