
The CTO Podcast
The CTO Podcast explores the worlds of Chief Technical officers as they manage the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of technologists in the C-suite. Hosted by Etienne de Bruin, founder of 7CTOs and author of CTO Excellence in 100 Days: Becoming the leader your company deserves. www.ctopod.com
Latest episodes

May 23, 2022 • 50min
A CTO Implements DEI Early On: A Discussion With Joan Pepin
Joan Pepin is the co-founder and CEO of ZeroWall. She shared her story of coming out as transgender while also being at the forefront of information security and engineering.Check out https://www.zerowall.ai/Check out https://7ctos.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

May 17, 2022 • 42min
What metrics do you use? A Discussion With Dave Mangot and Erik Enge
Erik Enge is the Head of Engineering at Postmark, recently acquired by ActiveCampaign and Dave Mangot is the Founder and Principal at Mangoteque. We discussed our favorite book Accelerate and how to apply it to our organizations.Check out https://www.mangoteque.com/Check out https://postmarkapp.com/Check out https://7ctos.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

May 9, 2022 • 14min
Be The Best Damn Fractional CTO You Can Be
You should be as uncomfortable with a fractional CTO running your tech as you would be with a fractional CEO running your business.Etienne talks about how to be a great Fractional CTO.https://7ctos.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

May 2, 2022 • 36min
Integrating New Hires Into Your Engineering Culture with Erin Fusaro and Tracie Hlavka
We had a great chat with Erin, VPE of Chipper Cash and Tracie, CTO at FlyHomes about the challenges we face when onboarding new hires.Check out more at https://cto.studio/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

Apr 25, 2022 • 41min
Designing a Great Hiring Process to Attract Engineers
Paul and Agustin from CertifiedHiring.com join us in the CTO Studio to talk about what it takes to design a great hiring process for engineers.Check out more at 7ctos.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

Apr 18, 2022 • 36min
Deconstructing The Hiring Problem with Eric Lackore and David Lormor
Eric is the VP of Technology & Platform Development at Sweet Onion Media Group. David Lormor is the Co-Founder & CTO of Wyndy and together we deconstruct the global hiring problem many companies are facing right now.Check out 7ctos.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

Apr 11, 2022 • 15min
4 Things The Security Team Wants From Their CTO with Naomi Buckwalter
Naomi Buckwalter visits the CTO Studio with a quick perspective on what the security team needs from their CTO. Naomi is a CISO and founder of Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation.Check out 7ctos.com/podcast and join our Slack community.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

Apr 4, 2022 • 44min
QA with Lu Saenz and Pat Cullen
Lu Saenz, CTO at Flock Freight and Pat Cullen, VP Engineering at Carrot talk about the progression of QA inside our engineering organizations and how to fight off the temptation to create a separate QA department.Lu Saenz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lu-saenz-startups-cleantech/Pat Cullen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-cullen-b3295b29/Join our Slack community at https://7ctos.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

Mar 28, 2022 • 19min
Coaching Your Engineers vs. Giving Them Feedback with Etienne de Bruin
Etienne spends a bit of one on one time with you talking about the differences between coaching our people vs. giving them feedback.Check out https://7ctos.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com

Mar 21, 2022 • 34min
Psychological Safety For Your Engineering Team with Kimeshan Naidoo, CTO Unibuddy
Kimeshan Naidoo recently gave a chat in the CTO Studio about how he built Psychological Safety for his engineering teams. He is the CTO and co-founder of Unibuddy.Check out 7ctos.com/podcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ctopod.com