What Makes a Good Technical Leader?
15 Dec 2025 CommentsJotting down the notes.
- Technical leadership - databases, distributed systems, compute fundamentals, Cloud security, scaling and tradeoffs, build vs buy, etc.
- Product sense & strategy - how to derive intuition from market research, and how to validate ideas before committing the team
- Leadership style - org design, leveling, talent strategy, how to drive the team, how to evaluate them and apply productive pressure, how to hire
- Technical communication - simplification of systems, and use of analogies
- Living the values & principles to build rapport and trust with their first team - increasingly more important as the business grows bigger