#9 - Jackson Gabbard: CTO, Facebook, Refactorer, and Mentor

Today’s episode is with Jackson Gabbard, CTO at Cord and ex-Facebook employee who started the engineering team for Facebook in the UK. In this episode we have discussed the follow:

• What Cord offers
• Requirements for someone to be qualified as a CTO
• Challenges coordinating a team of developers
• Refactoring code and real life examples of refactoring in production
• Hiring process of developers from high profile companies
• Facebook’s timeline implementation
• Facebook’s data capturing implementation + patent registry
• Facebook UK engineering team story
• Facebook’s Integrity and Safety measures
• And much more

Video version of the episode: https://youtu.be/hJqQvl6QK3A

Audio version of the episode: https://www.reconfigured.stream

Show notes: https://www.technolaaji.com/blog/facebook-uk-engineering-team-and-cto-at-cord-with-jackson

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