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CTO Wisdom with Charity Majors | Beyond the Program

The Pair Program · 2025-01-07 · 42 min

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CTO Wisdom with Charity Majors | Beyond the Program Welcome to CTO Wisdom. In this series, we interview technical leaders who have stepped into executive positions. Today’s guest host, Eric Brooke, speaks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io In today’s episode, they discuss: How Charity’s career started with a music scholarship and led to being a Founder, CEO and CTO. How a love of Command line and firefighting fueled a passion for infrastructure engineering. Navigating ADHD and its impact on building a successful career. The evolution from engineer to successful manager, director, and executive. The value of co-owned decisions and full board transparency at the executive level. And more! About today’s guest: Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io . She pioneered the concept of modern Observability, drawing on her years of experience building and managing massive distributed systems at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly). She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch.

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