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A free guide with real engineering leadership lessons from 19 experts who learned them the hard way.

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What you’ll get out of it

  • Actionable lessons from 19 engineering
    leaders.
  • 180+ pages of unique knowledge specific to engineering leadership.
  • Answers to questions that matter the most to every engineering leader.
  • A guide you can always come back to whenever you’re facing a tough decision.

Meet a few of the experts featured in the guide

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Maria Stylianou

Maria Stylianou

Engineering Leader & Technology ConsultantManaged 50 people over 15+ years.

Helped build two UK unicorns, scaling Monzo’s engineering from 300 to 1,500 people and building Marshmallow’s from scratch.

Rahim Rehmat

Rahim Rehmat

Industry Technical LeaderManaged 90 people over 20+ years.

20+ years in telecom, robotics and semiconductors. Now leads engineering at Alianza, a cloud communications company.

Robert Maksić

Robert Maksić

Development ManagerManaged 17 people over 15+ years.

Development manager at Shiji Group, leading fiscal compliance and e-invoicing across its global hotel software.

George Poulis

George Poulis

Director of EngineeringManaged 50 people over 10+ years.

Leads engineering at Plum, a European fintech, overseeing payments and core platform. Joined when it had 15 engineers.

Sally Lait

Sally Lait

Fractional Engineering Leader & ConsultantManaged 80 people over 20+ years.

Led engineering at Monzo, Farewill and Bumble before moving into fractional engineering leadership and consulting.

Daniel Kirsten

Daniel Kirsten

Managing Director & CTOManaged 60 people over 28+ years.

Joined his company as a trainee and worked his way up to Managing Director and CTO over almost three decades.

Igor Jugo

Igor Jugo

Solution Architect & IT LeaderManaged 45 people over 22+ years.

Led IT at KBC Rijeka, one of Croatia’s largest hospitals, then co-founded SaaS startup Naverix.

George Kallarackal

George Kallarackal

Director of ArchitectureManaged 100 people over 20+ years.

Director of Architecture at Baringa, advising financial services and government on large-scale tech transformation.

Pablo Alejo

Pablo Alejo

Head of Engineering & FounderManaged 30 people over 25+ years.

Moved from enterprise software into UX, led teams of 30 at Accenture’s Fjord, and now builds software products with AI.

Sheryar Malik

Sheryar Malik

Enterprise Architect & Transformation LeaderManaged 140 people over 30+ years.

Enterprise architect at INNOCOM, guiding large digital transformations with a growing focus on cybersecurity.

Dimitris Servis

Dimitris Servis

Senior Director of Architecture & EngineeringManaged 200 people over 20+ years.

Senior Director of Architecture and Engineering at Hexagon, leading teams behind industrial design software.

Viktor Olujić

Viktor Olujić

Board member & ex-CTOManaged 70 people over 26+ years.

Grew with one startup for almost 30 years. Now on the management boards of ASEE Solutions Croatia and Monri Payments.

Anastasia Michail

Anastasia Michail

Director of AI & Business TransformationManaged 14 people over 18+ years.

18+ years guiding companies through transformation and building teams from scratch into high performers.

Mihael Kukec

Mihael Kukec

Service ManagerManaged 10 people over 10+ years.

Former teacher turned tech. Manages AWS infrastructure and platform projects for enterprise clients.

Remi Battaille

Remi Battaille

Co-founder & CEOManaged 10 people over 15+ years.

Started coding at 16, ran his own agency, then co-founded Belgian sports tech startup MyPitch, where he is now CEO.

Dominik Helleberg

Dominik Helleberg

CTO and Head of Mobile Development & Embedded SystemsManaged 30 people over 20+ years.

Spent nearly a decade at Vodafone before joining inovex, where he is now CTO for mobile and embedded systems.

Robert Kezovski

Robert Kezovski

Scrum Master & Enterprise Agile CoachManaged 30 people over 10+ years.

Coaches large enterprise teams on agile delivery across SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce programs.

Miroslav Šimudvarac

Miroslav Šimudvarac

Managing DirectorManaged 35 people over 25+ years.

Serial founder with 25+ years building development companies in Germany. Now Managing Director at DECODE Germany.

Mario Žderić

Mario Žderić

Chief Technology OfficerManaged 80 people over 15+ years.

Started out writing Android apps and grew with DECODE from a handful of people to nearly 90. Now its CTO.

Our goal with this guide

People who made this

We believe that code should not be the only thing open source. Engineering leadership strategies, tactics, and methods should be too. That’s the main goal behind this guide.

On top of that, most engineering leadership books come from one person’s point of view: one CTO, one framework, one way of doing things that worked for them.

We wanted something different. A guide built from 19 different careers, 19 different sets of mistakes, and 19 different ways of solving the same hard problems.

The methodology

  • We looked for engineering leaders with 10+ years of experience
  • We picked people with different cultural and career backgrounds
  • We interviewed each of them one-on-one
  • We focused on topics every engineering leader eventually deals with: hiring, firing, scaling, and structuring teams
  • We asked for the hardest story they had, because that’s when people actually learn something

19

Engineering leaders interviewed.

400+

Years of experience combined.

50+

hours of interview recordings.

And the best part is: it’s completely free.

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