Mite Mitreski is the CTO of Signicat, the leading provider of digital identity solutions in Europe. Before Signicat, Mite was an engineering director and part of the CTO office at Klarna. He brings extensive experience in engineering leadership and great insights into high-performing teams.

In our conversation, Mite emphasizes the importance of team autonomy in driving progress at Signicat. They have certain standards, but every team is generally free to choose their own processes. Their most successful teams deploy multiple times per day, and we explore their strategy for expanding this approach across the board.

Even though they depend on manual QA due to the industry they’re in, Mite emphasizes the importance of automation and how can manual testing negatively affect the overall team performance.

According to Mite, “The moment you start using metrics for performance directly is the moment they start to be gamed.” He believes that an understanding of the big picture and good developer experience have a much higher impact on the team's performance than any metric you can choose.

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