Jeff Smith - Understanding how the CTO role will evolve as the team scales and grows

Highlights of my conversation with Jeff:

• Wanting to join a company to impact individual lives
• Adjusting to a HIPAA regulated industry
• Understanding all aspects of data flow
• Evolving to the strategic impact of the CTO role and shedding some hats (the last one being VP of Engineering)
• Switching between the different hats (strategic vs technical)
• Creating an organizational plan to balance the tech stack and career opportunities for growth

Meet: Jeff has been working in the technology space for over 20 years as everything from a software engineer, chief architect, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer. As the CTO at Octave, he will be expanding and scaling our world-class team of software engineers, evolving our architecture for scale, and guiding our technology to make the lives of clinicians and clients better.

Prior to joining Octave Jeff was in the Wellness space with TrueCoach, as well as the Enterprise SaaS space with Rally Software.

When not working, he can be found enjoying everything Colorado has to offer, including snowboarding, hiking, and cycling.

If you have any questions for Jeff, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefmsmit

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