Lessons Learned: Two Years as Carta's CTO

Reflecting on his two-year tenure as Carta's CTO, the author shares key learnings in engineering strategy, LLM adoption, and organizational management. He discusses refining his leadership style to delve deeper into details, writing a book on engineering strategy, successful LLM implementation at Carta for internal workflows and new product features, and the impactful 'Navigator' program for increased senior engineer involvement. He also details strategies for managing engineering costs and effectively communicating R&D investments to boards.