Real CVs comparison: Strategic CTO Vs Tactical CTO

Which one would you choose for your company?

CTO A says on their CV:

● Scaled productivity by 20% and reduced customer defects by 20% annually.

● Introduced Agile approaches, revised product/engineering interaction, and drove new testing, CI/CD, and quality processes.

● Worked with CTO to scale software engineering team to 130 people. Leadership and operational accountability for group, direct line management and career progression accountability for 80.

● Increased annual license revenue by 160% in 2 years by building new product development strategy and aligning with business needs cross-organisation.

CTO B says on their CV:

■ Responsible for people management, tech strategy, tech vision and goals, working in a matrixed way with other departments (e.g. product, marketing, sales, finance), fostering technical decisions to ensure engineering delivers the tech strategy.

■ Responsible for several teams: DevOps, Testers and Quality Assurance teams.

■ Hired and built teams.

■ Negotiated with internal and external stakeholders various projects.

■ Developed my teams through learning and development programmes, as well as mentoring and coaching both myself via one to one sessions as well as through the HR department with external coaches and trainers.