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A new CTO for Amazee Labs Zurich

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Six years ago the team at Amazee decided to start a Drupal agency called Amazee Labs in Zurich, Switzerland (read more about the Amazee journey) where I worked as a Drupal developer. Over the years, our small team at Amazee Labs grew and my responsibilities as a developer shifted. Suddenly I wasn’t coding all day. I became a team lead and finally CTO. I code much less now than I did during those first years.

Along with growing the team, we also grew Amazee. We added Amazee Metrics, Amazee Labs in Austin, Amazee Labs in Cape Town, and our newest venture, amazee.io. Each company demanded my attention, so I spent and still spend quite a lot of time in airplanes and on the road.

This growth has been awesome and a never ending journey of new challenges and learning. It’s also been exhausting and caused tensions and bottlenecks some times, as each group waited for my attention and time. Fortunately, this also taught me a very important lesson of good management: letting go.

Let go, enable your team, and make yourself redundant.

This is why I step down as CTO of Amazee Labs Zurich and pass the CTO-torch along to the next person who leads our tech team in Zurich: I’m very happy to announce that Josef Dabernig is our new CTO at Amazee Labs in Zurich from July 1, 2016 on.

Josef joined Amazee Labs in August of 2014 and has demonstrated his leadership and technology skills every day since then. He even taught me an important skill, that sometimes you need to slow down in order to be effective.

I wish Josef all the best with his new role. I am looking forward to see what his team will release. From what I’ve seen so far, they stand to deploy some pretty epic projects in the coming months.
As for me? I’ll be be spending this newfound freedom as the new CTO of Amazee Group, racking up travel miles and providing support and technical guidance for all our companies, specifically amazee.io, which we recently launched back in May.

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