Podcast 2022.06.24 Podcast

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

My interview with Jackson Gabbard, CTO at Cord and ex-Facebook employee who started the engineering team for Facebook in the UK.

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

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