title	conference	date
Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path	GOTO Copenhagen 2025	2025-09-29
A clear claim: technical leadership = aligning a group in a technical context, not vague management. Evidence: a rescue social‑app effort (8–10 acquired… Talk on
Engineering Leadership in Turbulent Times	GOTO Copenhagen 2025	2025-09-29
Practical tactics for chaotic engineering leadership: use the three threes (what to learn in the first 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks) to build context; harvest and… Talk on
The CTO Spectrum – Which Archetype Are You	CTO Craft Con: Berlin 2025	2025-09-23
Maps eight practical CTO roles and ties each to concrete decisions: founder CTO is hands‑on, splits time between fundraising and code; fractional CTO… Talk on
A quick tour of delivery management (and why it matters)	LDX3 London 2025	2025-06-16
Four concrete moves decide whether to watch: a four-step recipe that actually names actions — build an accurate plan that answers five questions (outcome… Talk on
Engineering Management Today - Trends, Challenges and Practical Solutions	Craft Conference 2025	2025-05-29
Engineering management faces four concrete shifts: relentless pressure to show productivity, measurable team-focused metrics, hybrid work logistics, and rapid… Talk on
Panel	Agile meets Architecture Berlin 2022	2022-09-06
Panel surfaces concrete wins and hard lessons: use team topologies with Wardley mapping and bounded contexts to split systems, keep architecture decisions in… Panel on
Organising and Governing Evolutionary Architectures (Fitness Functions)	Agile meets Architecture Berlin 2022	2022-09-06
Explains how to govern evolutionary architectures by turning goals into measurable fitness functions and automating them. Shows Netflix’s Chaos Monkey/Simian… Talk on
Secrets of a Strong Engineering Culture	Build Stuff 2020	2020-11-11
Compares a 200+ page design-doc, multi-country handoffs and 3–6 month release cadences with startups shipping every two weeks, and claims strong culture… Talk on
Talking With Tech Leads	GOTOpia November 2020	2020-11-10
Defines tech lead as a role change not a promotion and argues the job balances three skills—development, architecture, leadership—rather than more coding… Talk on
Changing attitudes toward legacy code	LeadDev Live Summer 2020	2020-08-14
Panelists report concrete playbooks: prioritize add tests first and map interdependencies before any rewrite, keep Objective‑C/Swift interop or Chrome DevTools… Panel on
Talking with Tech Leads	Build Stuff 2019	2019-11-13
Claim: the tech lead role is a role change, not a promotion, and requires shifting from maker to multiplier work. Concrete guidance: spend about 30% coding… Talk on
Levelling up as a Lead Developer	LeadDev Berlin 2019	2019-11-04
Covers concrete leadership shifts: how to move from writing code to multiplying others rather than hoarding work, how the Mirror, Switch and Moan “monsters”… Talk on
Building Evolutionary Architectures	W-JAX 2019	2019-11-04
Claims that an evolutionary architecture “supports incremental guided change” and treats change as a first principle, backed by practices: continuous delivery… Talk on
Flavours of technical leadership	The Lead Developer London 2019	2019-06-11
A clear, specific shortlist: the talk claims technical leadership is act not title and proposes the Trident model of three career tracks (individual… Talk on
"Talking with Tech Leads"	Build Stuff Spain 2019	2019-05-23
Tech lead is a role change not a promotion: responsibility shifts from writing most code to developing others and owning architecture, quality and technical… Talk on
Building Evolutionary Architectures	Øredev 2018	2018-11-19
Claims that an incremental guided change approach is the core property of an evolutionary architecture and that cycle time equals evolutionary speed, backed by… Talk on
Talking with Tech Leads	GOTO Berlin 2018	2018-10-31
N26 builds a tech leadership development program and reports trained 100+ tech leads as evidence that the role needs teaching, not just promotion. A Tech Lead… Talk on
Talking with Tech Leads	JDD 2018	2018-10-08
A practical playbook for stepping into technical leadership: a bank platform runs >120 deployments/week and tech leads are a role change not a promotion… Talk on
The Geek’s Guide to Leading Teams	Frontend Conference Zurich 2018	2018-08-30
The most challenging aspects to software development are always the people issues. Picking the right data structures, finding the right testing approaches are… Talk on
Travel Guide to Software Systems	NDC London 2018	2018-01-15
N26 documents its growth and compliance needs while teams often face churn and massive codebases (Linux kernel >200M LOC) so the prescription is a compact… Talk on
The Constant Life of a Tech Lead	The Lead Developer UK 2017	2017-06-08
Argues that tech leads face repeatable realities not trends and gives concrete moves: adopt principles outlast tools and keep reading refactoring and the 1972… Talk on
High-performance teams	O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2016 - London, United Kingdom	2016-10-19
Argues architects need as much soft skill work as technical decisions and that the highest-leverage change is shaping how teams work rather than choosing… Talk on
What I wish I knew as a first time Tech Lead	The Lead Developer 2016	2016-06-23
Transitioning into a tech lead is messy and specific: impact becomes amplified so mistakes affect whole teams, not just code; coding as a refuge undermines… Talk on
Technical Leadership	GOTO London 2015	2015-09-16
Maps common tech‑lead failures to concrete fixes: shows a content API team chased a two‑month launch that promised a 20% signup lift, where a new lead imposes… Talk on
Riding the paradox as a lead developer	The Lead Developer London 2015	2015-09-10
Leads face concrete trade-offs: keep coding time while running tech lead lunch peer groups, carve out Google-style 20% time for learning, and champion… Talk on
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