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