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Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Each episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo is a structured dialogue between Lucas and Luna, dissecting the decisions that define engineering organizations. Lucas, with a journalist's precision, and Luna, probing from the practitioner's chair, examine real CTO playbooks — from Netflix's architecture team restructuring to how Stripe scaled its engineering manager track. They walk through the trade-offs in code review velocity vs. quality, the economics of platform teams, and the talent signals…
Episodes
Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership ConversationsHow a CTO Uses Wardley Mapping for Competitive Strategy
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a mid-market SaaS company used Wardley Mapping to identify a strategic pivot against a looming competitive…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses the Cynefin Framework to Make Better Decisions
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how CTOs use the Cynefin framework to categorize problems and choose the right…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Dependency Inversion to Tame Spaghetti Architecture
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into how one CTO used dependency inversion to clean up a tangled microservices…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Blameless Postmortems to Build Trust
When something goes wrong in production, most engineering teams default to finding who made the mistake. But a growing number of CTOs are flipping that script…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses the Bus Factor to Prevent Single Points of Failure
Every engineering leader dreads the moment a key person leaves. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO uses the Bus Factor — the minimum number of…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Feature Flags to Deploy Safely
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO can use feature flags to decouple deployment from release. They walk through…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Observability to Reduce On-Call Fatigue
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO at a fintech startup used structured observability—specifically, slashing…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Small Bets to Validate Hypotheses Before Building
Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a mid-size SaaS company used a 'small bets' approach to test product hypotheses before committing engineering resources…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Cost-to-Serve Metrics to Kill Unprofitable Features
Most engineering teams build features without knowing their true cost. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore cost-to-serve metrics — a technique used by CTOs…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Wardley Mapping to See Strategic Options
In episode 100, Lucas and Luna explore how Wardley Mapping helps CTOs visualize strategic landscapes and make better platform investment decisions. Lucas walks…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Internal Developer Platforms to Reduce Friction
In episode 99 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how CTOs can use internal developer platforms (IDPs) to reduce friction for engineering…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Technical Sparring Partners to Make Better Decisions
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of the technical sparring partner — a practice where engineering leaders invite a trusted peer to…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Timeboxed Experiments to Break Decision Paralysis
Episode 97 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores how engineering leaders use timeboxed experiments to escape analysis paralysis. Lucas and Luna examine a…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses an Internal Platform to Cut Onboarding Time by 80 Percent
Episode 96 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO slashed new-hire onboarding from six weeks to six days by building an internal…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Leading Indicators to Predict Sprint Success
Episode 95 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo dives into how a CTO at a mid-size SaaS company uses leading indicators — not lagging ones like velocity — to…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Platform Engineering to Tame a Monolith
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore platform engineering through the lens of a real 2025 migration at a mid-sized fintech, where the CTO reduced deployment…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses DORA Metrics to Measure Engineering Performance
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO at a mid-market SaaS company uses the four DORA metrics (deployment…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Nudge Theory to Ship Better Code
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO applies behavioral economics — specifically nudge theory — to improve code…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses a Decision Log to Stop Repeating Mistakes
Episode 91 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore how forward-thinking CTOs use a decision log — a simple living document that records every…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Cost of Delay to Prioritize the Feature Queue
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a mid-sized SaaS company uses the cost of delay framework to prioritize…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Cognitive Load Theory to Structure Engineering Teams
In Episode 89 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO applied cognitive load theory to reorganize engineering teams, reducing…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Cost of Delay to Prioritize the Feature Queue
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a mid-size SaaS company uses Cost of Delay to prioritize features. They…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Customer Journey Mapping to Align Engineering
Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO at a mid-size SaaS company uses customer journey mapping to align engineering teams around user outcomes instead of output…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Energy Budgets to Reduce Cloud Costs by 30 Percent
Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO implemented energy budgets—a practice borrowed from embedded systems—to cut cloud infrastructure costs by 30 percent without…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Chaos Engineering to Build Resilient Systems
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore chaos engineering with a concrete case: how a CTO at a mid-sized e-commerce platform…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Architecture Decision Records
Episode 84 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna dive into Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) — lightweight documents that capture the context…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses a Trade-Off Log to Make Architectural Decisions Auditable
Most technical decisions disappear into Slack threads and hallway conversations. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO uses a lightweight…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Request for Comments Documents to Drive Alignment
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO at a mid-stage SaaS company uses RFCs — Request for Comments documents — to…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Product Thinking to Reduce Tech Debt
Most engineering leaders frame tech debt as a technical problem to be refactored. But what if the root cause is actually a product strategy gap? In this…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Cost of Delay to Prioritize the Feature Queue
Episode 80 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo dives into cost of delay — a prioritization framework that turns gut-feel roadmaps into dollar-weighted decisions…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Wardley Mapping to Find Strategic Advantage
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO uses Wardley Mapping to visualize strategic trade-offs and find competitive…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Pre-Mortems to Avoid Failure Before It Happens
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the pre-mortem technique—a structured exercise where engineering teams imagine a project has already failed and work…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Feature Flags to Deploy Daily
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a mid-size SaaS company uses feature flags to decouple deployment from…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses an Incident Commander Role to Handle Outages
When the site goes down, most teams panic. This episode examines how one CTO implemented a structured incident commander role modeled on emergency response…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses an Internal Developer Platform to Cut Cognitive Load
Episode 75 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo dives into how one CTO used an internal developer platform (IDP) to reduce cognitive load for his engineering team…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Blameless Postmortems to Build a Learning Culture
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how engineering leaders can move beyond finger-pointing by institutionalizing blameless…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses an Incident Cost Calculator to Prioritize Reliability Work
In this episode of Tech Leadership, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive approach to reliability: putting a dollar figure on every incident. They walk…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses API Versioning to Avoid Breaking Changes
Episode 72 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into the practice of API versioning as a strategy to prevent breaking changes in production…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Platform Engineering to Cut Developer Onboarding from Weeks to Hours
In episode 71 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore platform engineering through the lens of a real-world case: a fintech CTO who reduced…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Error Budgets to Balance Speed and Stability
Lucas and Luna explore the concept of error budgets, a tool borrowed from Google's Site Reliability Engineering that helps engineering leaders decide when to…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Replaced Standups With Async Daily Updates
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a 200-person SaaS company replaced traditional standup meetings with an…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Used a Decision Log to Make Every Call Auditable
Lucas and Luna dive into the surprisingly powerful practice of decision logging for engineering teams. They explore how one CTO at a mid-size SaaS company…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses a Decision Log to Make Every Call Auditable
Lucas and Luna explore a surprisingly low-tech tool used by high-performing CTOs: the decision log. They examine how a CTO at a mid-size SaaS company started…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Cost-to-Serve Data to Kill Unprofitable Features
Episode 66 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a specific cost-to-serve analysis at a mid-market SaaS company that revealed 12% of…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Used Load Testing to Prevent a Black Friday Meltdown
In this episode, we unpack the story of a CTO at a mid-size e-commerce company who ran a series of load tests six weeks before Black Friday and discovered that…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a CTO Uses Long-Running Experiments to Test Product Hypotheses
In episode 64 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of long-running product experiments—controlled tests that run for weeks or…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Defined His Engineering Levels With a Rubric
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna unpack a concrete approach to engineering career ladders: the public rubric used by a mid-stage…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Chaos Engineering to Test Production Resilience
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a mid-sized fintech company uses chaos engineering to proactively test system resilience in production…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Automated Technical Decision Making
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a mid-sized SaaS company replaced manual tech decision processes with automated decision records. They…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Team Topologies to Fix Communication Dead Zones
In episode 60 of Tech Leadership, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO used the Team Topologies framework to reorganize a 200-person engineering department…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Cost of Delay to Prioritize Features
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO at a B2B SaaS company used Cost of Delay to transform feature…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Wardley Maps to Spot Strategic Blind Spots
Lucas and Luna dive into Wardley Maps, a strategic planning tool that CTOs use to visualize dependencies, anticipate market shifts, and avoid being blindsided…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Developer Metrics to Detect Burnout
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how engineering leaders can use developer productivity metrics to detect burnout before it becomes a crisis. They…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Cognitive Load Theory to Resize Teams
Most engineering teams are sized by headcount, not by cognitive load. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO at a mid-stage SaaS company used…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses the Five Whys on Incidents to Find Root Causes
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a practical incident analysis technique: the Five Whys. They look at how one CTO, Sarah…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Internal Platforms to Kill the Build vs Buy Trap
Every engineering leader eventually faces the build-versus-buy decision. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack a concrete case: a mid-stage fintech CTO who…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Eliminated All Meetings for Two Weeks
Episode 53 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores a radical experiment: one CTO at a mid-sized SaaS company banned all recurring meetings for two weeks…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses In-House Tooling to Solve the Build vs Buy Trap
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna unpack the under-discussed middle ground between building internal tools and buying…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Solved Her Team's Knowledge Silos with Internal Podcasts
Episode 51 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna explore a surprising tool for breaking down information silos in engineering teams: internal…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How Git History Tells You Your Team Is Broken
Lucas and Luna dive into the hidden signals buried in your version control history. Instead of code reviews or metrics dashboards, your team's collaboration…