Becoming a great tech lead: Avoid the traps!

Over the years as an entrepreneur I’ve hired and coordinated several tens of developers and helped some of them get to tech/team leads. Today on my Software Architect role I also interact with several tech leads everyday.

From that experience I’ve noticed several patterns that people repeat on the journey of going from a developer to a tech lead.

Being a developer these days, at most companies, is a very focused role. Meaning that you must know how to code and produce what the User Story or task is detailing, leaving few space…