SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Founded in in 2020 by Tan and CTO Deepak Malhotra, Brick now has more than 50 paying clients and supports more than 13 million API calls and almost one million consumers a month. Tan was an early employee at Aspire, the neobank, while Malhotra was co-founder and CTO of Indian neobank Slice.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

And, on the flip side, it’s just as important to be mindful of team chemistry and take action when there’s a problem, says Srini Kadiyala, CTO of OvalEdge. It’s imperative to keep the team in the know, so that projects can stay on track and under budget,” Alarid says. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Senior software engineers are expected to have the advanced version of those skills; technical leads are expected to mentor and exercise peer leadership; and so forth. To help out, were supporting the career ladder changes with an XP coaching team. These are player coaches who get hands on with the code and lead by example.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. Perl was previously the head of technology at home service booking platform Dispatch and the CTO of pharmacy supply chain firm Zipdrug. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

One day later, on December 7, it was revealed that CTO Diane Yu was transitioning from her role as Chief Technology Officer – a position she had just assumed in January 2021 – into an advisory position. trillion (in assets) bank announced its plans to increase its annual technology budget to $12 billion , 26% more than it spent in 2020.”.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. You might have the CIO rolled into a different role, or you might be able to merge the CIO and CTO,” he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. The payoff can be significant. “We Rizwan, CIO of Z2C Ltd.,

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s well within the budget.” Increasingly, we’ll see AI-specialized hardware,” predicts Claus Torp Jensen, former CIO and CTO and currently a technology advisor. “On the cloud, you’re paying by the hour and you’re paying a premium.” In contrast, he asserts, “Pretty much any hospital in the US can buy four computers.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. Let's say a customer is spending $1M/year on Redshift. That seems kind of bad for AWS?

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

SLMs and other traditional non-LLM AI technologies have many applications, particularly for organizations with specialized needs, says Dave Bullock, CTO at UJET, a contact-center-as-a-service provider experimenting with small language model AIs. Consumers demand expertise specificity that considers their home and location.”

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Double-down on cybersecurity We are in a cybersecurity pandemic right now, warns Juan Orlandini, CTO for North America at solutions and systems integrator Insight Enterprises. This could be an in-house team or trusted advisors who can make sure you’ve done what you can to protect yourself.” Assume that attacks are inevitable.”

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Find a lawyer and someone who does CTO searches for VC backed companies in your area. They both would have lots of thoughts and ideas. What type of shares?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers By Hank Rainwater If you are looking for advice on fine-tuning your approach to leading programmers, Matt Aird, CTO of Custom Neon and co-owner of Infoactive Media, recommends Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

That componentization is key, says Andrew Peterson, CTO of executive search firm Riviera Partners, a longtime user of low-code development tools. The cost of keeping up Should CIOs not yet all-in on the trend budget their software development tool spend to keep pace with IDC’s growth forecasts?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Find a lawyer and someone who does CTO searches for VC backed companies in your area. They both would have lots of thoughts and ideas. What type of shares?

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2024

It’s a time-saver and budget-friendly way to enhance business operations, keeping the focus on core activities. First, build a robust support network by fostering relationships with mentors, peers, and industry professionals who can provide the insight and guidance you need.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One. This was not in the budget for the year nor was it on our roadmap, yet we were able to initiate cost-benefit analysis, do demos, and get it deployed as a two-month project,” he says. “In

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A senior technology executive says she was once ignored by a vendor in a sales pitch, despite being the most senior executive in the room and having the final sign-off on budget. Myself and a person I mentor both got told we were both diversity hires,” says a deputy digital director in public sector. They needed the allyship of men.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. After three months of working with the mentors, the freshers came up to speed. “We

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases. That attitude is reflected by Broadcom’s late 2023 acquisition of VMware, which CIOs and their advisors say has become a top area of attention for many tech execs who are now assessing the deal’s potential impacts on costs and service.

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CEO Tech Tips

APRIL 9, 2021

One of the first inquiries I get from non-technical founders is, when do I need a CTO? To answer that, you first need to understand how a CTO fits into your organization. If you are building a company reliant on technology and you don’t have a technical co-founder, I’d tell you that you’d need a CTO from day one.

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CEO Tech Tips

APRIL 9, 2021

One of the first inquiries I get from non-technical founders is, when do I need a CTO? To answer that, you first need to understand how a CTO fits into your organization. If you are building a company reliant on technology and you don’t have a technical co-founder, I’d tell you that you’d need a CTO from day one.

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Blue Sentry

AUGUST 29, 2023

TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I’m Todd Bernson – CTO at Blue Sentry Cloud and an AWS Ambassador with 12 AWS certifications. The AWS trusted advisor tool can help identify opportunities to use more cost-effective resources for your workloads. One of the best practices for AWS cost optimization is to use the right type and size of resources.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

For example, tech leaders often aren’t the decision makers, rather make recommendations to business partners that own the budget while negotiating with systems integrators or other third parties. Technology leaders need to operate with financial discipline and develop rigor for managing through influence, notes Sample.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services. It’s going to cost you a lot of money,” she says.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

We are seeking an individual with deep technical skills that can engage with a technical community and staff as well as work in policy and procedure areas while mentoring operations teams. Project management skills; financial/budget management, scheduling and resource management. Click here to apply online. Internet2 is a 501.C.3

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team. Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

Anil Cheriyan’s storied career spans multiple industries, including serving as EVP/CTO of strategy and technology at Cognizant, as the US Presidential Appointee in charge of Technology Transformation Services, and as Global CIO at SunTrust. Today, he develops and drives strategy as a board member, advisor, and investor.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2022

If you’re building a team for the first time, you should understand that data science is an iterative process that requires a lot of data, says Matt Mead, CTO at information technology services company SPR. AI strategists can also help organizations obtain the data they need to fuel AI effectively.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. As with most business challenges, data is instrumental.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. Careers, Diversity and Inclusion, IT Leadership, Mentoring

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