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Type Name Latest commit message Commit time README.md More content Feb 7, 2021 View code README.md Awesome CTO -- Hi, my name is Dima and I'm CTO -- (chorus) Hello, Dima A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups Contents * General * Hiring * Management * Handbooks * Development process * Architecture * Technologies * Startups * Related stuff * Product * Marketing * More links General * The Different CTO Roles - Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) * Is it required to be a developer to become a CTO? (Quora) * Three Golden Rules to Finding a CTO * Becoming a CTO * VP Engineering vs CTO - Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) * What makes for a successful CEO and CTO relationship in a startup? (Quora) * #define CTO - Greg Brockman (Stripe CTO) * How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown to 100 engineers * Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering Hiring * The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing - Joel Spolsky (StackOverflow co-founder) * The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel Spolsky * Why Can't Programmers.. Program? - Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow co-founder) * We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else - Jeff Atwood * Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right - Jeff Atwood * Engineering interview process at Stripe (Quora) * Improving Our Engineering Interview Process (Foursquare) * Hitting the High Notes - Joel Spolsky * Top 10 System Design Interview Questions - (HackerNoon) * How To Hire World-Class Engineers (angel.co) * Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you * Reverse interview * The Real 11 Reasons I Don't Hire You - Charity Majors * How to Interview at Amazon * Lessons from Keith Rabois: How to Interview an Executive * Lessons from Keith Rabois: How to Become a Magnet for Talent * Reverse Interview Questions Management * The mythical 10x programmer - Salvatore Sanfilippo (author of Redis) * The Engineer/Manager Pendulum - Charity Majors * Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule - Paul Graham (Y Combinator) * Software Engineering at Google * Google re:Work * 44 Engineering Management Lessons * The Secret To Discussing Pay With Employees * Awesome Leading and Managing (Github) * Progressing from tech to leadership * A Review Process - Cap Watkins * 12 manager readmes from top tech companies * Predictable Delivery * How people rise up to EVP level in big organizations (Quora) * Should I Become a Manager? - Cap Watkins * How to fail as a new engineering manager * Design Patterns for Managing Up * Engineering Management (Github) * On-boarding Software Engineers * Hold Your Team Accountable * The Manager FAQ * The Power of Performance Reviews * Principles of Engineering Management * Compensation Best Practices * Draw The Owl and Other Company Values You Didn't Know You Should Have * A MANAGER'S BILL OF RESPONSIBILITIES (AND RIGHTS) * After Being A Manager, Can I Be Happy As A Cog? * The Secret to a Great Planning Process -- Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite * Increment: Teams * Career Growth Frameworks in Software Engineering: A Review * Hacking team communications * How to build a startup engineering team * Hug your manager * Lessons from Keith Rabois: How to be an Effective Executive * How Context Switching Sabotages Your Productivity Handbooks * The Atlassian Team Playbook * Valve Employee Handbook * Basecamp Employee Handbook * GitLab Team Handbook Development process * Scrum / Agile + Introduction to Scrum for Managers and Executives + Writing User Stories, Examples and Templates In Agile Methodologies * CI / CD + What are the fundamental principles of continuous integration? + The Product Managers' Guide to Continuous Delivery and DevOps * Git + Comparing Git workflows + A successful Git branching model * Planning + Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel Spolsky (StackOverflow co-founder) + Why You Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Technical Debt + [Book] The Mythical Man-Month * Crisis + How to Write a Postmortem + List of Post-mortems (GitHub) + Startup Lessons Learned - Five Whys - Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup) + On Call Rotations: How Best to Wake Devs Up in the Middle of the Night + Testing in Production, the safe way Architecture * Twelve-Factor App * Reactive Manifesto * An introduction to distributed systems - Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr, author of Jepsen) * Microservices - Please, don't (also: HackerNews discussion) * The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 * Shrinking microservices to functions * Design patterns for microservices * Serverless architecture (Quora) * NoSQL Databases: a Survey and Decision Guidance * Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API * 10 Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes * How I Write Tests * Lambda Architecture * Evolutionary Database Design (Martin Fowler) * Database Migrations Done Right * Awesome Scalability * The Single Most Important Internal Email in the History of Amazon * Build Your Own X * A reference guide for fintech & small-data engineering Technologies * General + Big-O explained in plain English + Coding Interview University * Javascript + SuperheroJS collection + JS: The Right Way + Frontend developer handbook 2017 * Machine Learning + Awesome Machine Learning (GitHub) + Best resources of everyday ML learning (Quora) + Machine Learning Crash Course: with TensorFlow APIs (Google) + Deep Learning For Coders * Big scale + What is CAP Theorem? (Quora) + CAP Theorem: Revisited * Security + SaaS CTO Security Checklist * Cloud + Open Guide to Amazon Web Services + Amazon AWS in Plain English + Microsoft Azure in Plain English + Google Cloud Services for the AWS expert Startups * What are the things startups have to get right? (Quora) * 85 Things I learned being a CEO * What's the Second Job of a Startup CEO? * Things I will tell my kids if they become entrepreneurs * What do VCs really look for when making investments? (Quora) * What would a CTO equity be for a small startup? (Quora) * As an employee of a startup, how do you know when to quit? (Quora) * Pitch deck collection from VC funded startups * YC's Series A Diligence Checklist * Options vs Cash * How To Invest In Startups - Sam Altman * A Guide to Seed Fundraising * Startup Playbook - Sam Altman * Y Combinator Startup Class * Lean Canvas + Miro template Related stuff * Knowledge-Sharing Architects As An Alternative to Coding Architects * Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (also: HackerNews discussion) * What are best practices of experienced programmers? (Quora) * Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names * 2016 European Software Development Salary Survey (O'Reilly) * DevOps: Bringing development and operations together (Atlassian) * DataOps * How to Prepare a Talk * Undervalued Software Engineering Skills: Writing Well * The Pyramid Principle * Senior Engineer's Checklist * Technology Due Diligence Checklist Product * What Makes a Great Product Manager * If You Don't Think You Need a VP of Product... * Red Oceans: How to Find Profitable Startup Ideas * Product North Star Metric * What distinguishes the Top 1% of product managers from the Top 10%? - (Quora) * How to Hire a Product Manager * The Secrets Of Creative Thinking * StellarPeers - Product Management Interviews * Product vs. Feature Teams * Most Startups Should Be Deer Hunters * Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters * How to Write Your First Strategic Roadmap Marketing * Developer Marketing Guide * Top Resources for Startup Marketing and PR * SaaS Email Marketing Handbook More links * Awesome Falsehood (GitHub) * Engineering blogs (GitHub) * Awesome Awesomeness (GitHub) * Awesome.re (GitHub) * Chief Technology Officer vs Coder Thinker Organizer (GitHub) * Senior Software Engineer * Socal CTO * Curated list of CTO resources (GitHub) * Awesome CTO Resources (GitHub) * Free Tools for Developers License CC0 About A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups Topics architecture management software-engineering startups cto Resources Readme Releases No releases published Packages 0 No packages published Contributors 2 * @kuchin kuchin Dima Kuchin * @maximveksler maximveksler Maxim Veksler * (c) 2021 GitHub, Inc. * Terms * Privacy * Security * Status * Docs * Contact GitHub * Pricing * API * Training * Blog * About You can't perform that action at this time. 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