Road to CTO with Àlex from Mars Based

I sat down with Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit from Mars Based for their Road to CTO podcast. We talked about building teams, scaling organizations, and what actually matters when you’re responsible for technology and people.

Kubernetes came up exactly once, spoiler: it was to talk about when FTP was “cutting edge” technology.

We covered the parts that don’t make it into most tech talks. Sleepless nights wondering if there’d be money for payroll. The awkward transition from being an engineer to leading 100+ people. Building fair culture from scratch when you’re making it up as you go.

The conversation kept coming back to the same tension: how do you scale technology without forgetting that it’s really about people? How do you survive growth without the machinery taking over?

No buzzwords. No frameworks for the sake of frameworks. Just real experiences from 25 years of making software and leading teams.

Thanks to Àlex and the Mars Based team for having me on.