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Episode 105
Road to CTO: From Mafia Wars to Amazon, 35 years of tech leadership wisdom
Welcome to another episode of Road to CTO, our series where we sit down with some of the most experienced and influential technology leaders in the world.
In this episode, we talk with Dorion Carroll, a veteran with 35 years of tech leadership experience, former CTO at Zynga, VP at Amazon, and one of the most insightful engineering minds in the industry.
From scaling engineering teams from 280 to 3,600 people, to navigating billion-dollar decisions, to understanding what truly makes a great CTO, Dorion shares the lessons, stories and frameworks that shaped his extraordinary career.
If you're an aspiring CTO, an engineering manager, or simply passionate about how world-class tech organisations operate behind the scenes, this is a masterclass.