SPEAKER
Rob Zuber
CTO
Rob Zuber, Chief Technology Officer Rob Zuber is a 25-year veteran of software startups; a three-time founder, and five-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its Series F funding and delivered on product innovation at scale while leading a team of 150+ engineers distributed worldwide. Before CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, Continuous Integration and Deployment platform for mobile applications acquired by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company. Rob holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two children.
Upcoming sessions
See complete program3 November
4:15 PM · 30 min
Why Your CTO Is Suddenly Writing Code
Rob has spent 25 years building a mental model of how software gets made, and AI broke it. Suddenly he couldn't tell where his engineers were stuck, and he wasn't sure his instincts still counted for anything. So he went back to the code, and not as a side quest, because there's no substitute for a gameday and no way to understand how your engineers live without living it. What does it look like when a leader gets that close to the work and still has to make the calls in a market that moves this fast?
You'll hear an honest account of what he got wrong and what was humbling. If you lead, you'll know when to dig in, when to shortcut the hierarchy and decide, and when to get out of the way. If your leaders have started asking odd questions or poking at your tools, you'll know what to expect from them right now and how to help them catch up.
4:15 PM · 30 min