Patrick Kua is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience. His current mission is accelerating the growth of technical leaders through coaching, mentoring and training. He has had many years of hands-on experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three books including The Retrospective HandbookTalking with Tech Leads and Building Evolutionary Architectures and runs the free popular newsletter for leaders in tech, “Level Up” (http://levelup.patkua.com) and the Tech Lead Academy, offering online training for technical leaders. You can find him online on Twitter as @patkua or running his very popular “Shortcut to Tech Leadership” workshop.

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Managing challenging people
17 Aug 2023 Article

Managing challenging people

Pat Kua
Pat Kua
5 mins
Tech debt traps to avoid
08 Jun 2023 Article

Tech debt traps to avoid

Pat Kua
Pat Kua
4 mins
How leaders can better prioritize personal to-dos
11 Apr 2023 Article

How leaders can better prioritize personal to-dos

Pat Kua
Pat Kua
5 mins
Exercising foresight as an engineering leader
06 Feb 2023 Article

Exercising foresight as an engineering leader

Pat Kua
Pat Kua
5 mins
19 Oct 2022 5 mins Article
17 Oct 2022 45 mins Video
07 Oct 2022 45 mins. Video
25 Jul 2022 5 mins Article
08 Mar 2022 10 min Article
Wrap-up
Pat Kua
Pat Kua
06 Jul 2022 10 mins Conference session
04 Jul 2022 10 mins Article
13 Apr 2022 8 mins Article
09 Feb 2022 7 mins Article
21 Dec 2021 Workshop
25 Oct 2021 Workshop
14 Oct 2021 6 mins Article
30 Sep 2021 7 mins Article
22 Sep 2021 8 mins Article
08 Jul 2021 6 mins Article
26 May 2021 Video
04 May 2021 5 mins Article
01 Mar 2021 6 mins Article
11 Sep 2015 17 mins Video
23 Jun 2016 30 mins Video
08 Jun 2017 29 mins Video
06 Dec 2018 30 mins Video
30 Oct 2020 9 mins Article
01 Sep 2020 31 mins Video
29 Sep 2020 36 mins Video
Imperfect Processes: Navigating the fuzzier parts
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Changing attitudes toward legacy code
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06 Dec 2019 26 mins Video