Wisdom from A Super-CTO - w/James Turnbull Developer Chat

Show Notes Section:


James Turnbull is a Prolific Technical Author, Engineer of 25+ Years, and has worked in VP or CTO roles for various companies like, Glitch, Kickstarter, Docker, Venmo, Puppet, and Microsoft.






What we talked about:


How did you land so many cool Jobs?


Networking and remembering things about people


Coding as a CTO


Docker and Containers - Why they are awesome


Is Devops important as an Entry Level Engineer?


Learning as a Stairs instead of an Arc


Gatekeeping in Software Development


How to become a CTO


10X Engineers


Human Skills


Startups - How to be successful


Is Equity worth It at Startups?


How long should you stay at a company for?


Seeing People Learn and Grow as Developers


What I wish I would have known as a Junior Dev