Become a Tech Director

Here I am going to list what I consider it is required for an engineer to become Tech Director

Hiring & developing team members career

• Hiring & retain talent
• Define Roles & responsibilities
  • https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/roles-and-responsibilities
• Metrics for People
  • Performance metrics
• How to champion Engineering with product owners

Agility

• Atlassian's no-nonsense guide to agile development
• Scrum
  • Estimations: buffer it for engineering best practices
• Optimize Daily meetings
  • Only communicate blockers. Simple status can be communicated on slack: what I did yesterday and what I'm working on today
  • Use it to share knowledge and coordinate cross platform efforts

Time Management

• Meetings
  • Remove unnecesary meetings
  • Encourage all meetings with agenda to optimize time
• Multiply & scale your time
  • Delegate properly
  • Coach so can delegate even more

Culture

• Vision (mobile first, ai first, cloud first companies)
• Strategy, Principles, Practices

Inspire and Promote Engineering Culture

• Tech Blog
• Tech Talks
• Hackathons

Innovation

• Innovation
  • The eight essentials of innovation
  • Innovation with Hackathons
• AI (Chat bot, Analytics, Recommender Systems, 3D Vision, Fraud Detection, etc)
  • AI Business School
  • AI for Everyone
• IoT (Wereables to improve and customize user experience)
  • UX meets IoT

Product Management / Ideation

• miro

Engineering

• Security
  • Security engineering, applied cryptography, secure software development
• Performance
  • JMeter scripts, postman
• Architecture & System Design
  • Scalability: Horizontal and Vertical
  • Async Task/Jobs
  • Distributed queue, Pub / Sub
  • Messaging platform (1:1, group)
• Monitoring & alerting
  • Agent vs Agentless approach
  • OpenSource vs Paid solutions
• Chaos Engineering
• Developing best practices
  • Trunk based vs feature branches
  • Code reviews
    • The Engineering Manager's Guide to the Code Review Process
    • Google: Code Health: Respectful Reviews
  • Linters (smart automatic code style checker and more)
  • Danger (smart automatic code reviews)
  • Tech design (Architecture, class, interaction diagrams)
  • SonarQ (Code smells, maintainability, robustness, security, bugs, etc)
  • CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, build --> unit tests --> integration tests --> SonarQ --> build .ipa/apk --> upload to hockeyApp)
  • Postman

Testing Best Practices

• Unit Testing
• Unit Testing Best Practices
• Writing Testeable Code
• Tech Talk: Psychology of Testing by Misko Hevery
• Integrations testing
• E2E Testing
• Level up: BDD and TDD
  • TDD
  • BDD
    • Applying BDD acceptance criteria in user stories

Mobile Development

• Feature toggle
• Applanga for translation
• Mobile caching layer (Realm, Firebase, CouchMobile), BFF, GraphQL
• Native (Swift / Kotlin) vs React Native vs hybrid (Cordova)
• Charles Proxy Debugger for resilient applications

REFERENCES

• Engineering Management
• Libro: Desarrollo de Software Ágil en 10Pines
• Globant
• SAFe Agile Framework

ENGINEERING BLOGS

• Uber Engineering Blog

• Netflix TechBlog – Medium

• Facebook Engineering Blog: Facebook Code

• Blog | LinkedIn Engineering

• Airbnb Engineering & Data Science – Medium

• Engineering - Twitter Blog

• Yelp Engineering and Product Blog

My Profile in Linkedin

• Matias Tripode