Instructor

Patrick Kua is a seasoned technology leader with ~25 years of experience. His current mission is accelerating the growth of technical leaders through coaching, mentoring and training. He has had many years of hands-on experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and Building Evolutionary Architectures and runs the free popular newsletter for leaders in tech, “Level Up” (http://levelup.patkua.com), the podcast “Managing Managers” (http:// managingmanagers.tech) and the Tech Lead Academy, offering in-person and online training for technical leaders. He has personally trained thousands of technical leaders and engineering managers from over a hundred companies.