<p> How can you scale a product and team by tenfold? What challenges will you face, and what changes will occur in the process? What's unique about fintech?</p> <p>This presentation is dedicated to answering these questions, based on real experience and specific examples of decisions made. I will discuss the challenges we encountered, the decisions we made, and share a story about building a robust system, an efficient team, and a product that grows every day. </p>

<p>Becoming a CEO instead of a CTO significantly shifts your perspective on the organization, business, people, and yourself. Personal experience and self-reflection with no claims of possessing exclusive “know-how”.</p>

<p>In today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, innovation is the lifeblood of every successful organization. But what exactly fuels innovation, and how can companies consistently tap into its potential? In this engaging presentation, we delve into the vital role of leadership in driving innovation processes.</p> <p>Drawing from real-world experiences and insights, we explore the dynamic relationship between leadership and innovation, highlighting the key strategies, mindsets, and practices that effective leaders employ to nurture a culture of innovation within their organizations. From inspiring creativity to fostering cross-functional collaboration and championing experimentation, we uncover the leadership principles that pave the way for groundbreaking technological advancements. </p> <p>Join us as we delve into the core leadership traits required to steer businesses toward innovation excellence. Discover how forward-thinking CTOs and tech leaders are leveraging their influence to propel their organizations into the future, embracing the transformative power of innovation while preserving their unique corporate identity. Learn why, in the digital age, leadership isn't just about managing teams and projects but also about catalyzing innovation that shapes industries and defines success.</p>

<p>The main goal for a startup's engineering team is to rapidly develop and release quality products. Using our project as an example, I will share insights on how the speed of task delivery evolved with the introduction of QA, the challenges we encountered, and why we opted to proceed without a dedicated QA specialist.</p> <p>We will also discuss the principles and approaches that help us uphold a high standard of product quality: </p> <ul> <li>SDLC and the 'built-in quality' approach to processes</li> <li>managing incidents and postmortems</li> <li>test strategy for automation: E2E tests on Cypress, FE component testing, BE integration tests</li> <li>CI/CD: GitLab review apps, canary releases on Argo Rollouts</li> <li>observability: logs, metrics, alerts, tracing, canary metrics</li></ul> <p>These strategies have shortened the task's time to market by an average of a day, without any increase in the number of incidents. My presentation will appeal not only to startups or companies without a dedicated QA team but to a broader audience. In conclusion, attendees will receive a list of universal tips to enhance product quality.</p>

Do machines hallucinate insecure code? In the blink of an eye we jumped on the AI bandwagon and pivoted from AI skepticism to AI adoption, but what did we trade off exactly? Writing secure code is tougher than it seems and we humans are getting it wrong time and time again. Even highly popular open-source software projects are repeatedly found vulnerable. So how does ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot live up to standards of secure software? developers have already embraced AI for augmented software development but let's challenge those AI tools you've come to rely on day-to-day and see how capable they are in producing secure software.

The practical application of the Kanban development approach, its features at Uklon, and the reason we call it Kanplan.

Let's talk about the purpose of technical interviews, try to consider different types of interviews and determine what benefit or harm they bring, pay attention to the most common mistakes of both candidates and interviewers, and make a cheeky attempt to derive the formula for an ideal interview.