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July 11, 2023
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19:00
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Online
The Road to Becoming a CTO: Different Paths, One Destination
2025
Ukraine
🚀 The path to becoming a CTO isn’t just about technical skills. It’s about building teams, making tough decisions, and speaking a language the business understands.
In this discussion, we explored:
- The different roles CTOs play across company types — from startups to enterprises
- What career growth looks like: from being the strongest dev on the team to influencing business strategy
- Why it’s essential to delegate, communicate, think bigger, and embrace change
- What skills really matter: leadership, business thinking, and the ability to navigate uncertainty
The speakers shared their personal journeys, lessons, and anti-cases — honest stories full of failures, doubts, and growth.
Meetup speakers
CTO @ ex-PredicaHost @ CTO Morning Coffee
Tomasz Onyszko having a career in the tech industry for over two decades. He leads consulting teams and strategy/architecture areas of projects with organizations up to 100k+ in size. He organizes and hosts the best online show in Poland, CTO Morning Coffee.
Executive VP of Global Engineering @ Finalsite
Serg manages small and large organizations around the world, creating and delivering quality products on time, on budget, and to specification. His approach is a hands-on no BS management style, which allows him to be the key between business and development.
Co-Founder and CTO @ ex-Taledo, Co-Founder & MD @ HRCast
Marcel Poelker is a founder, CTO and Startup-Advisor. Marcel founded the recruiting-tech company Taledo, which received funding from the EU for its innovative approach and won the HR innovation award.
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
The moderator is Yana Mykhailenko, CTO of Turnitin, an international company that ensures the integrity of education and is a leader in anti-plagiarism solutions. She is a judge and mentor at international competitions and hackathons.
Upcoming events
Tech Stack
On the first Thursday of October, we will hold a Tech Stack meetup to discuss choosing the right technology stack, optimal use of cloud solutions, and effective practices that directly affect development speed, product quality, and infrastructure stability.
Conference | How to Become Great CTO
In November, the DEV Challenge team, in cooperation with UNIT.City, will once again bring together Ukrainian tech leaders, entrepreneurs, company and startup founders, CTOs, and managers to discuss the most relevant and important topics in technology, business, and leadership.
Meetup #21
Full information about the meetup will appear here soon.
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