Podcasts

Recordings here:

• (Mar 2019) – Software Developer’s Journey – #43 Patrick Kua on being a consultant, a tech lead, a CTO and helping people grow – During this interview, we touched on the different roles Patrick’s overtook during his career. Pat devised on how his time as a consultant prepared him for his current role as a CTO. We discussed the definition of a Technical Lead and compared it to the CTO Role(s). We finally discussed Pat’s personal learning strategies.
• (Jul 2018) – SE Daily – Build a Bank: N26 with Pat Kua – In this episode, we discuss the advantages of digital banks, the fintech industry and N26 as a itself. We also explore product development and how Pat manages his time as CTO–which is a useful discussion for anyone who is learning to be a technical leader or manager.
• (Feb 2018) – Top of the Stack – How N26 builds its modern banking software – In the first episode of Top of the Stack, we interviewed Patrick Kua, the CTO of N26, a successful banking startup from Germany. Patrick is a microservices expert who spent 13 years at ThoughtWorks, and then decided to lead the tech team for a modern banking company which already serves more than 500.000 users.
• (Nov 2017) InfoQ – Patrick Kua on Growing Technical Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture – In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Patrick Kua from ThoughtWorks on growing technical leadership and evolutionary architecture
• (Aug 2017) SimpleLeadership – The Importance of Technical Leadership with Patrick Kua – In this episode Patrick Kua from Thoughtworks discusses the importance of having good technical leadership on teams.  He also discusses his new book, “Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners”
• (Sep 2016) – Hello Tech Pros – Why Tech Lead Positions are so Lonely
• (Aug 2016) Software Engineering Radio #265: Becoming a Tech Lead – Johannes Thönes talks to Patrick Kua about the role of a technical lead and how people become tech leads. The show covers the definition of a tech lead, the responsibilities of the role and the challenges of becoming a tech lead.
• (Feb 2016) Developer on Fire – Leading Leaders – Pat Kua talks with Dave Rael about the characteristics of leadership, embodying leadership, motivation, and challenges.
• (Aug 2015) Leanpub Episode #23
• (Jul 2015) ThoughtWorks – Teaching Tech Leads – In this episode, we talk about the role of a tech lead and how Pat is helping new tech leads on their journey. We talk about the responsibilities of a tech lead and how this can be very overwhelming in the beginning. We also discuss the importance of a technical vision, what distinguishes a technical vision from an architecture and how we can teach tech visioning.
• Fogcreek – Becoming a Tech Lead – Interview with Pat Kua, discussing becoming a Tech Lead – important aspects of the role, common mistakes made by those new to it, and recommended resources to learn more about how to be successful as a Tech Lead.