CTO Decisions with Cos Nicolaescu

Podcast Thursday, June 9 2022

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How to build a rocket ship while flying it? In this episode, Cos returns to the show to discuss the technologies and approach Brex chose to create an engineering organization and innovation engine for the long term, while navigating shifts as the company continued to scale at a rapid pace. Cos and Jeff also cover the nuts and bolts of programming languages and databases and strategies to break through performance bottlenecks. Cos is the CTO of Brex, whose mission is to reimagine financial systems so growing businesses can achieve their full potential.

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