Raymie Stata - Yahoo

Talk by Raymie Stata , ex-CTO at Yahoo

Some tech roles:

• Managers:
  • manage commitment. People depend on product, they make it happen on time.

• Individual Contributor (ic):
  • i shaped

• Architects:
  • t shaped

• There are some companies that don’t have an architect branch. (google)

More in depth about Architect:

• It’s all about managing trade offs

• tech debt: making not-the-most-elegant solution and deciding to leave
  the elegant solution for the future. Customers will never be happy
  about paying down the debt, they want solutions.

• need to understand how software evolves over time. Understand how to
  get what you want done working with what you’ve already got.

• Startups: they don’t teach you how get things done in large
  companies.

• As an architect people have to trust that you’re doing the best for
  the company, not just your career.