João Alves

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Dad. Husband. Head of Engineering @Adevinta, and building rotahog.com. My main interest is to build and grow SaaS Products and Infrastructure teams. Twitter | LinkedIn | Mastodon

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I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?

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In June 2018, I joined mytaxi (FREE NOW), a competitor of Uber in the ride-hailing space, as Backend Chapter Lead. I was looking for an opportunity to grow in technical leadership. Honestly, I did not even fully understand what “Chapter Lead” meant. After some research, I learned it was part of Spotify’s squad (team)…