Writing
Long-form posts on building engineering teams, shipping real products, and the parts of technology leadership nobody teaches you.
Hootan Nikbakht
Founder, nikfam.ai · Interim CTO · Scaled teams from 4 to 31 engineers
Hiring
Why hiring a senior developer from a staffing agency is the wrong first move for a seed-stage startup
Most seed-stage founders hire their first senior developer through an agency. I've watched this play out seven times. It fails for reasons that have nothing to do with the developer's skill.
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Engineering Leadership
Starting a blog, 6+ years into being a CTO
Why I'm finally writing down what I've learned about building engineering teams, shipping real products, and the parts of technology leadership nobody teaches you.
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