How Aikido Turned Crusty Security Tech Into Sth Devs Love We’re excited to spotlight Aikido Security, a forward-thinking cybersecurity company. They’ve been disrupting the industry with a unique, no-nonsense approach. This post highlights their 2024 achievements, 2025 predictions, and our collaborative success. Key Business Achievements in 2024: Delivered a no-BS, security product to save devs from pulling their eyes out Expanded to App & Cloud Security to challenge “crusty, old” cybersec vendors ?  Launched THREE major open source projects (Opengrep, Zen and Intel) Top Predic ..read more

We’re proud to shine a spotlight on our long-term partner, Softwire, a company that continues to inspire through its commitment to innovation, collaboration, and community support. Over the years, Softwire has not only sponsored our conferences but also collaborated on key initiatives like the ‘Spilling the Tea’ GenAI survey and report, hosted community meetups in their offices, and consistently demonstrated leadership in the tech industry. “CTO Craft has given me so many opportunities to speak and connect with like-minded individuals. The community is second to none—there’s a real sense of be ..read more

Author: Iain Bishop, founder and CEO, Damilah If you’ve been working with a near-shore software partner for a number of years, then it’s only natural to consider setting up your own centre to drive down costs further, gain more control and properly establish your company culture.  This can also potentially allow your business to near-shore non-software development activities such as customer support, IT support and other admin functions where face-to-face contact with customers is not required regularly.  There are, however, risks associated with making this successful – but it is de ..read more

The tech leadership ground truth of generative AI (GenAI) in business. In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, Generative AI is emerging asa game-changer for businesses across industries. To gain a deeper understanding of how CTOs leverage... The post Spilling the AI Tea appeared first on CTO Craft ..read more

Building upon last year's inaugural survey, we're excited to share insights from our second edition of this industry benchmarking initiative. In today's fast-paced tech landscape, understanding compensation trends and structural complexities is essential for engineering leaders. The post Spilling the AI Tea appeared first on CTO Craft ..read more

The official theme of this World Mental Health Day is ‘It is Time to Prioritise Mental Health in the Workplace’. We couldn’t think of a better person to turn to then, than long time friend of the CTO Craft Community Claire Russell from Mental Health in Business to understand where businesses and the leaders within them are in 2024 and what has changed in recent times.  CTO Craft:  Claire, would you start and kick us off by reminding us a little bit about what your company Mental Health in Business does and the work you do? Claire:  Yes, absolutely. I started this Mental Health i ..read more

Building upon last year's inaugural survey, we're excited to share insights from our second edition of this industry benchmarking initiative. In today's fast-paced tech landscape, understanding compensation trends and structural complexities is essential for engineering leaders. The post Compensation Survey Report 2024 appeared first on CTO Craft ..read more

Author: Iain Bishop, founder and CEO, Damilah There are few professional tasks worse than scaling down a team. Yet every seasoned CTO is likely to have to go through the process at some point in their career, and for many organisations, the pain of this has been particularly sharp in recent years. In this article, I share my three-pronged resourcing strategy for scaling teams to allow you to scale up and down quickly and painlessly.  Why do you need to scale? There can be countless reasons why scaling may be required. These could include investor demands, business challenges, an economic ..read more

Author: Matan Bordo Technical Account Managers (TAMs) at DoiT, mirroring their hyperscaler counterparts, act as advisors, guiding customers through both technical and strategic aspects of their cloud journey. They help customers with everything from  Cost optimization  Re-architecting for high availability and performance Guiding them through their next cloud commitment Moreover, TAMs do this across a diverse range of customers in different industries, giving them a front-row seat to new best practices, edge cases, and more. Undoubtedly, this gives TAMs a wealth of interesting expe ..read more

Author: Julie-Laure Mikulskis, Head of Technology, YLD Borrowing the words of Michelle Lee, AI keynote speaker, founder and CEO of Obsidian Strategies, “Every company has a machine learning opportunity; however, not every problem is solvable by machine learning.” One of the common challenges I have noticed as YLD’s Head of Technology, is that many CTOs […] The post Leveraging GenAI for strategic business advantage: opportunities and considerations appeared first on CTO Craft ..read more