Patrick is the CTO of the mobile bank N26, where he is building the engineering group that will change modern retail banking for people like you and me. Formerly a Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks in London, he is also the author of three books, The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and most recently, Building Evolutionary Architectures. Patrick is a frequent conference speaker, a blogger and is passionate about bringing a balanced focus between people, organisations and technology.
During this interview, we touched on the different roles Patrick's overtook during his career. Pat devised on how his time as a consultant prepared him for his current role as a CTO. We discussed the definition of a Technical Lead and compared it to the CTO Role(s). We finally discussed Pat's personal learning strategies.
Here are the links of the show:
- @patkua https://twitter.com/patkua
- Blog https://www.thekua.com/atwork
- Tech Lead Course - http://thekua.io/techlead-course
- Talking with Tech Leads book - https://thekua.io/twtl
- N26 Bank https://n26.com
- N26 are hiring - https://grnh.se/f64c07431
- ThoughtWorks https://www.thoughtworks.com
- The Retrospective Handbook https://leanpub.com/the-retrospective-handbook
- eXtreme Tuesday Club London https://www.meetup.com/eXtreme-Tuesday-Club-XTC
- Dan North https://dannorth.net
- Alistair Cockburn https://alistair.cockburn.us
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