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🎻 Coding Interviews, Org Debt, Crisis Leadership, Over-Committing, Remote Teams, Alignment vs Output, Self-Sabotage: TMW #506

Andy @ CTO Craft
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This week's TMW is sponsored by ChainGuard - eliminate malware and vulnerability risk across your containers, dependencies, CI/CD actions, and AI agent skills so your developers can just ship.

Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the week!

It's Fintech Week!

Today marks the first day of this year's CTO Craft Con: Fintech event, in London's Square Mile. We'll be joined by over 200 of Europe's best engineering leaders working in the fintech space, with talks by leaders from Monzo, Yonder, Flagstone, Zopa, Funding Circle, Lloyds, SumUp, Marshmallow, BlackRock and dozens of others. There'll be networking, lunch & learns, interactive breakout conversations, and all the usual fun and games.

If you're coming along, do come and say hello - I'd love to meet you!

That's it, let's look at some links! See you next week

Andy @ CTO Craft

CTO Craft Con - Dates for Your Diary

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Whisky Business: A Secure Tasting with Chainguard
Thursday 12 November | 5pm–6.30pm GMT | Virtual

One unverified dependency can compromise an entire stack. Join Chainguard and Great Drams for a guided virtual whisky tasting about chain of custody, in both whisky and software. Over five drams, including a rare 20 Year Old single cask, you’ll swap notes with fellow engineering leaders on reducing supply chain risk and keeping what you ship verified and trusted. There’s also a quiz with a bottle prize.

UK only. Register by 6th November to receive your tasting kit in time. Places are limited!

Can't make the whisky tasting? Here are 5 board-ready security metrics for CISOs to help keep tabs on your attack surface and ensure your organization remains safe amid automation in the age of AI.

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Andy

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