We are back! Our guest today is Pat Kua, a CTO/Tech advisor, Coach and Mentor, who worked for companies like Thoughtworks, N26, and is on a mission to accelerate the growth of technical leaders through coaching, mentoring, and training.

In this episode, we dove into what makes the leap into management so challenging for engineers and what they can do to succeed. Pat also shared tons of useful insights around anti-patterns that hold engineering leaders back and how to tackle those.

We also discovered how tech leaders are the shepherds of systems thinking in organizations and how to ship quality at speed while scaling.

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Things you learn in this episode:

• How to succeed as a new engineer manager

• The anti-patterns that prevent leaders engineers to grow

• What to avoid when transitioning to management

• Why engineers are the shepherds of systems thinking in organizations

• The importance of quality when scaling