The CTO Track with Luca Corti

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In this episode Luca will take us through his experience as CTO and the challenges of moving from an individual contributor role to a CTO.

Luca Corti is CTO at Sibill, previously CTO for Dottori.it, and experienced technologist and programmer. He will help us better understand what it takes to be a CTO, what you need to focus on if you aspire to becoming one.

Luca believes in the importance of learning from ones mistakes as well as creating a safe environment for people to make mistakes and learn from them.

In this episode full of insights we will go through some of the many hats a CTO has to wear.

Some of the topics we have touched on:

- Transitioning from IC to CTO and the differences in the impact radius you have

- Managing teams alignment

- Balancing technical debt as a leader

- The importance of creating safe environments in which people can learn from their mistakes

- The art of hiring and recognizing team fitness

- The importance of practicing soft skills

- Learning to delegate