The CTO Journal
Notes from the technical leadership trenches.
Field guides, decisions, and post-mortems for engineers stepping into leadership and leaders looking to stay technical.
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Engineering Leadership·Roles & Titles
A Field Guide to Engineering Leadership Roles and Responsibilities
What Tech Lead, EM, Staff, Director, VPE, and CTO actually mean in practice — the responsibilities behind each role, the two tracks they sit on, and how to grow through them.
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