#2 - Paweł Sobkowiak: From sociology student to Booksy's 180-engineer CTO
At six, Paweł Sobkowiak wrote his first program on a Commodore 128. In high school he quit coding to study sociology. He came back to build the engineering team behind Booksy, from a handful of people to 180. Paweł Sobkowiak: CTO at Mos Health, building an AI companion for employee wellbeing. Previously 11 years at Booksy, where he grew engineering from a side project to 180 engineers and was the de facto CTO years before the title. In this episode: ■ The Git branch he created as a junior in 2009 that nobody wanted, and what it changed ■ Why he was doing the CTO job years before anyone called him CTO ■ The one habit that got him promoted every time, without asking ■ Why he thinks engineering specialists are becoming a thing of the past Chapters: 00:00 Mos Health and the AI companion for wellbeing 01:10 A Commodore 128 and a first program at six 02:19 Quitting code for sociology, and the crawler that brought him back 04:44 Why the CTO role is a business role 06:42 Junior at Sensei Soft: Git, tests and thinking like the user 12:38 Booksy: from side project to 180 engineers 14:26 The crisis that made him the official CTO 21:39 The cheat sheet: ownership and listening to people 26:21 Paweł's superpower 28:28 Engineers, not coders: why roles are dissolving 33:21 The book: Extreme Ownership Follow Paweł LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawelsobkowiak/ Mos Health: https://moshealth.com/ The book "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/1250067057 Road to CTO Hosted by Kuba Lang. New episode every Wednesday. Kuba on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kubalang/ All platforms: https://roadtocto.com Want to share your road? hello@roadtocto.com
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