Podcast – Episode 10:
CTO’s voice from the Banking as a Service Industry
(Setting up high performing resilient remote teams and architectures)
Tech leaders today are multi-faceted. There is the obvious requirement to understand technology, at least from a high level, but also a need to be business-minded and understanding what creates the best high-performing teams in one’s leadership scope. In this episode, Taylor Lilley joins us to give us an insight into his lessons over varied his journey. Taylor is the CTO at White Label MFG with a straight-talking style that gets the nub of where the challenges are and what the options are. Rewinding his timeline on experience, you get to see a colorful journey, one that started in the United States Marine Corps.
“…make sure that your [soldiers] in the trenches know the battle plan.”
Key takeaways from the Podcast are:
- Try not to treat your highly intelligent engineers as task doers
(get the best out of your high IQ people) - Communications is the key to making remote teams deliver the outcomes you want
- High-level tips on creating high volume resilient architectures
- The importance of having a business head as well as a tech one
TLDR: Straight to the point
(Quick Links)
We all live busy lives, and sometimes a long Podcast is too much of a time-footprint for our busy schedules. So, to help you get to the bit you’re more interested in, use our table of contents below. Quick links to help you get straight to the point.
2. Tech solution for City planning and making better, less costly decisions
3. Enter Google Maps… we're screwed
4. Big data then and big data now
5. A business mind married to a technology mind
6. Tech leaders learning about the business
7. Cheeky IT Labs Plug (How happy Taylor is with the work IT Labs do)
8. Offshoring teams that you can trust
9. Tell the engineers what's going on in the business (they can handle it, and need it)
10. Dealing with large volumes of credit card transactions
12. Considering disaster recovery in the Banking-as-a-Service industry
13. Do you need multiple paths in your system? (redundancy)
14. Seeing the business perspective from tech leaders eyes
15. Creating high performing teams
16. The ability of any engineer to press the big red stop button
17. What Taylor learned from his time in the military about making sure all the troops know what the overarching plan is
18. Key Takeaways from Taylor
19. Closing comments and key takeaways from the host