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Welcome to the community for Senior Individual Contributors

Typically a staff, principal or distinguished engineer/architect

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At CTO Connection, we are creating a small set of exclusive, global, invite-only communities where software engineering leaders can share problems and get answers from their closest peers. We're also aggregating the best engineering leadership wisdom into playbooks by role and scale so we can create and continually update the definitive guides for effective engineering leadership.

There are lots of types of engineering leadership - from team lead to CTO, tiny teams to huge orgs, and stasis to hypergrowth. And the questions you have and the answers you need are highly dependent on your role, scale and growth trajectory...

What is the biggest challenge you're facing right now in building or managing your engineering team? Let us help you to solve it...

Applying just takes a minute and only requires your name, email and LinkedIn Profile URL to get started!

Membership will always be free for qualified participants

Whether you’re a staff, principal or distinguished engineer or some flavor of architect, if most of your job is comprised of influencing other engineers, but you have none or few direct reports, join a community designed just for the leadership challenges that you face.

Applying just takes a minute and only requires your name, email and LinkedIn Profile URL to get started!

Membership will always be free for qualified participants

ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS

Share your engineering leadership challenges with the community online
Ask your questions live during our regular, confidential office hours with mentors
Review our evolving playbooks covering everything from tooling, hiring, onboarding and training to hybrid, management, leadership and org design (coming soon)

KEEP UP TO DATE

Regular fireside chats and AMAs with other engineering leaders sharing their latest learnings/experiences
Exclusive newsletter for your community sharing the latest discussions and takeaways from your peers and mentors
Get a regular feed of community recommended articles on engineering leadership appropriate to your role and scale

Applying just takes a minute and only requires your name, email and LinkedIn Profile URL to get started!

Membership will always be free for qualified participants

IN ADDITION YOU CAN

GET BENCHMARKING DATA

Propose surveys on anything from tooling to compensation that the community will vote on and contribute to

BUILD YOUR NETWORK

Build a strong, trusted community of peers to help you in your engineering leadership journey

SHARE YOUR WISDOM

We make it easy to share your experiences,and we'll help you by packaging and distributing your wisdom to the community so you can focus on building your team and we'll focus on helping you to share your learnings

AT CTO CONNECTION WE CAN HELP YOU TO BUILD:

Your Team

- With proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent

Your Impact

- Helping you to make your organization both more effective and more efficient

Your Credibility

- Leveraging a community that can share both quantitative and qualitative resources to inform and support your decisions

Your Career

- Helping you to build the skills and network required to grow your success, ease and impact as an engineering leader

WE CREATE COMMUNITIES THAT BELIEVE:

We can build more effective engineering organizations by learning from each other
All challenges are shallow-with enough peers to bounce them off of
There are some good practices in engineering leadership,but context is key. By focusing communities around a specific role, scale and pace of growth we can have more fruitful discussions and solve problems more quickly and elegantly

Applying just takes a minute and only requires your name, email and LinkedIn Profile URL to get started!

Membership will always be free for qualified participants

WE ASK THAT EVERY COMMMUNITY MEMBER SHOW:

My name is Peter Bell. I ran engineering at General Assembly (an EdTech startup in NYC) along with a bunch of other startups that didn't get quite so much traction :) After getting fired from GA, I wanted to become a better engineering leader, and despite having co-founded the NY CTO School and being a member of the NY CTO Club, I really wanted to build a better way for senior engineering leaders to share problems and get answers.

In 2014, I organized the Inaugural New York CTO Summit where the CTOs of companies like MongoDB and Warby Parker shared their experiences of building and managing fast growth engineering orgs. Since then I've run 28 in-person and over 100 online summits, and it's clear from the 600+ presentations from senior engineering leaders that there are "good practices" for building and managing a fast growth engineering team - but they are not well distributed and often change frequently.

If you'd like access to monthly exclusive fireside chats, tutorials, benchmarks, case studies and playbooks on the hard parts of building and managing a fast growth engineering org optimized for growth stage venture backed companies and a safe, supportive, high trust, personally vetted community of other senior engineering leaders, join us on our journey to identify, organize and distribute effective, "good practices" for engineering leadership.

We are focusing on quality over quantity, so if you're interested in joining the community, please do sign up ASAP as we'll be pausing admissions frequently to make sure we can personally connect with and build a strong relationship with all of our new members.

We're all busy, but this is a chance to build a high trust support network to help you navigate the challenges of managing and scaling the impact of your org.