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Conversations on the CTO craft — from the right leader at each stage of a company to fractional and interim leadership, AI-native engineering, compliance, hiring, and building teams across borders.
Navigating the Tech Landscape: The Role of a Fractional CTO
Oshri Cohen joins Think Big with Dan and Qasim to explain what a fractional CTO really does — and when founders should bring one in.
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Technical Recruiting Is Broken — Here's How to Fix It
Why technical hiring keeps failing teams — and how to combine recruiter instincts with real engineering judgment.
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Why Most Startups Don't Need a CTO
A hacker-turned-CTO on why most startups don't need a full-time CTO — and what to do instead.
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Becoming an AI-Native Organization
Oshri Cohen on rebuilding how a company builds — so AI is the default, not an add-on.
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What a Fractional CTO Actually Does
A quick take on the fractional CTO model — senior technology leadership without a full-time hire.
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Engineering in Service of the Business
Oshri Cohen on his core operating philosophy: product and business first, with technology and engineering in service of it.
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When to Bring In a Fractional CTO
Oshri Cohen on the signals that tell a founder it's time for senior technical leadership — and what changes once it arrives.
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Technical Due Diligence for Investors
Oshri Cohen on reading code, architecture, team and risk before a deal — and building the value-creation plan after.
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Why Every Tech Founder Needs a Fractional CTO by Their Side
Oshri Cohen on The Jeff Bullas Show: why a fractional CTO can be the highest-leverage hire a founder makes.
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The CTO's Role at Each Stage of a Company
Oshri Cohen on how the CTO job changes from seed to scale — and why the right leader at one stage is the wrong one at another.
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Managing Global Dev Teams: Cultural Nuances & Leadership Challenges
Lessons from leading 12 engineering teams across 7 countries: managing distributed, multicultural development teams.
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Fractional vs. Full-Time vs. Interim CTO
Oshri Cohen on the difference between fractional, interim, and full-time technology leadership — and which one a company actually needs.
Watch →Should You Hire a Fractional CTO?
Oshri Cohen joins Laura Milstein and Kevin Albert on That Tech Pod to unpack what a fractional CTO actually is, how the job compares to a full-time seat, and whether a C-suite role can be vended out at all.
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Scaling a SaaS Engineering Organization
Oshri Cohen on scaling engineering from a handful of developers to many teams without losing speed.
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Programming, Business, and Becoming the Fractional CTO
From self-taught developer to fractional CTO: the path through programming and business that led to the work Oshri Cohen does today.
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Unlocking Startup Success: Mastering Tech Leadership
Oshri Cohen on the technology-leadership habits that actually move a startup forward.
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The Role of a CTO in Compliance
Oshri Cohen joins Thomas Fox on Innovation in Compliance to unpack how the CTO's role in data strategy and governance shifts with company size.
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Technology Management in the Age of AI
Oshri Cohen and Marquis Murray on managing technology — and technology teams — as AI reshapes how software gets built.
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Modernizing Legacy Systems
Oshri Cohen on re-platforming legacy systems to cloud-native — with downtime measured in minutes, not days.
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Rescuing Troubled Software and Teams
Oshri Cohen on turnarounds: inheriting codebases with no tests, docs, or team — and turning them around in months.
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Building High-Performing Engineering Teams
Oshri Cohen on turning engineering orgs into measurable, predictable, high-performing teams with DORA, GitOps and DevOps.
Watch →From Self-Taught Developer to Fractional CTO
On episode 233 of Software Developer's Journey, Oshri Cohen tells Tim Bourguignon how a self-taught engineer worked through every technical role on the way to CTO, and why he chose to go fractional.
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From Developer to CTO
Oshri Cohen on the path from self-taught developer through every technical role to CTO — and what he learned along the way.
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What Kind of CTO Do You Need?
On Tiny DevOps, Oshri Cohen breaks the CTO role into four distinct phases — and explains why one person rarely fits all of them.
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