About us
We are a community of longtime, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Our mission is to help each other learn through conversation and sharing of ideas.
We host monthly in-person events on the first Tuesday of each month.
Leadership is a learnable skill, however learning about leadership in the technology industry is often left to chance. This often leads to frustration for both leaders and those being led.
Many technology leaders get the job by default. They are the best or most senior technologist and suddenly find themselves leading meetings, negotiating for resources, making strategic decisions, participating in hiring, and a whole range of other mission-critical activities that fall outside of the technical toolbox. The world of leading / managing talented technologists can be messy.
We have many leaders practicing different leadership / management approaches from various companies around us. We can all learn from each other by coming together and sharing our experiences.
We aim to create an open community of people managers and technology leaders to exchange regularly about managing teams, solving difficult organisational topics, discovering new ways of working with the people we are allowed to mentor and all other aspects.
Just like in the core of tech, managing people and teams is never "done" and there is always new things to learn, impulses to follow, old practices to discard or revive. This is the place to help each other and move forward, become more professional and grow for ourselves and for the people and organisations we lead.
The hypothesis being that sharing our experiences will grow us into better leaders which over the long term will make the technology industry a better place for everyone.
Thank you to our sponsors - OfferZen
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OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.
Upcoming events
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Tech Leadership Meetup with Amogelang Moloko (Software Engineer at Naked)
MasterGrade IT Cape Town, 18 Lower Burg St, Central, Cape Town, 8001, Cape Town, ZAJoin us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup.
There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.
The event will be hosted at the MasterGrade IT Cape Town offices in Cape Town City Centre.
The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:00 - 18:05 - Introduction and house rules.
18:05 - 19:00 - Main speaker - Amogelang Moloko.
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap up.Topic of Main Talk - My Biggest Tech Debt: Being an Engineering Manager (And How I Refactored My Career)
Many Individual Contributors (ICs) face the inevitable career pivot toward Engineering Management (EM). This transition is often pitched as the default path for growth, but what happens when the fulfilment of shipping code is replaced by the burden of process and people?
This talk is a transparent, firsthand account of a common career trajectory—the journey from an IC to an EM and back again. We will unpack the psychological and technical conflicts that arise when a builder must become a multiplier, and explore the critical lessons learned about aligning personal value with career titles.
Amogelang is a full-stack engineer who is primarily passionate about working in early-stage startups. With experience across E-commerce, Logistics and Insurance, he thrives in turning ambiguous problems into experiences that delightfully solve customer problems. Currently, he is contributing to helping Naked build an insurance product people love.
Thank you to our sponsors OfferZen
OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.---
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