Become a Tech Director

Here I am going to list what I consider it is required for an engineer to become Tech Director

Hiring & developing team members career

Hiring & retain talent
Define Roles & responsibilities
- https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/roles-and-responsibilities
Metrics for People
- Performance metrics
How to champion Engineering with product owners

Atlassian's no-nonsense guide to agile development
Scrum
- Estimations: buffer it for engineering best practices
Optimize Daily meetings
- Only communicate blockers. Simple status can be communicated on slack: what I did yesterday and what I'm working on today
- Use it to share knowledge and coordinate cross platform efforts

Meetings
- Remove unnecesary meetings
- Encourage all meetings with agenda to optimize time
Multiply & scale your time
- Delegate properly
- Coach so can delegate even more

Innovation
- The eight essentials of innovation
- Innovation with Hackathons
AI (Chat bot, Analytics, Recommender Systems, 3D Vision, Fraud Detection, etc)
- AI Business School
- AI for Everyone
IoT (Wereables to improve and customize user experience)
- UX meets IoT

Security
- Security engineering, applied cryptography, secure software development
Performance
- JMeter scripts, postman
Architecture & System Design
- Scalability: Horizontal and Vertical
- Async Task/Jobs
- Distributed queue, Pub / Sub
- Messaging platform (1:1, group)
Monitoring & alerting
- Agent vs Agentless approach
- OpenSource vs Paid solutions
Chaos Engineering
Developing best practices
- Trunk based vs feature branches
- Code reviews
  - The Engineering Manager's Guide to the Code Review Process
  - Google: Code Health: Respectful Reviews
- Linters (smart automatic code style checker and more)
- Danger (smart automatic code reviews)
- Tech design (Architecture, class, interaction diagrams)
- SonarQ (Code smells, maintainability, robustness, security, bugs, etc)
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, build --> unit tests --> integration tests --> SonarQ --> build .ipa/apk --> upload to hockeyApp)
- Postman