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The Journey to Chief Technical Officer with Andrés Torres
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The Journey to Chief Technical Officer with Andrés Torres

Most likely you already read many information about the ladder to reach the Chief Technical Officer. It's also important to listen the experiences from the ones already reached that position

In today’s episode, we have Andrés Torres, Chief Technical Officer at Kalyp Technologies, to talk about the role of CTO, what it is, the challenges it has, and more. Andrés grew up from Software Engineer to Director of Engineering in a big-sized company. Now, he’s working as Chief Technical Officer for a Start-Up and, in this episode, we have the opportunity to hear about a journey like that from a very firsthand.

If you are looking to understand this role in a Start-Up and the differences that the role has in comparison with a 2.000 employees company, you will find it in today’s episode.

Hope you enjoy this episode and remember that you can ask questions in the comments!

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The Optimist Engineer
The Optimist Engineer Podcast
Sharing experiences, learnings, and inspiration from the tech world, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, and software makers from Startups to medium-sized companies. Hope my journey could help yours.