Thuan Pham
Veteran technology executive best known as Uber's first and longest-serving CTO, where he helped scale the company from a small engineering team to a massive global platform. Currently CTO of Faire and previously held engineering leadership roles at VMware and other technology companies.
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Apr 1, 2026 • 1h 39min
Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)
Thuan Pham, Uber’s first CTO and now CTO at Faire, shares how he helped turn a crash-prone app into a global platform. He gets into the frantic China launch in five months. He talks about the platform-program split, the messy path from monolith to microservices, and why Uber had to build so many internal tools. He also touches on Helix and how AI is reshaping engineering.
