In conversation with Thomas Squeo, Thoughtworks CTO for the Americas
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.7 • 53 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to be a technology leader today? What kind of challenges must you address? What questions do you need to answer? To explore all that — and dive into what it looks like from a Thoughtworks perspective — host Ken Mugrage spoke to Thomas Squeo, the CTO for Thoughtworks in the Americas.
They discuss everything from keeping track of emerging technologies and wider industry shifts, to product thinking, AI and career development. Listen to get to know a Thoughtworks leader and discover fresh perspectives on some of the big questions and debates all of us in tech keep finding ourselves returning to.
Find Thomas on X: @squeot
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomassqueo/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. My name is Ken McRage. I'm one of your regular hosts. We have a little bit different format this time. We are lucky to be joined by the CTO for the Americas for ThoughtWorks. Thomas |
| 0:23.8 | Squill. Thomas, you want to do a short introduction? Sure. Ken, thanks for the opportunity to join. |
| 0:29.1 | I've been a longtime listener, first time caller. So this is kind of fun for me. My background is |
| 0:36.0 | a career technologist and executive. |
| 0:39.3 | I've been working with ThoughtWorks as a customer for over 22 years. |
| 0:45.6 | And in that journey, alongside I've done everything from be a software engineer to run a function, |
| 0:52.0 | to be the executive sponsor and multiple roles around |
| 0:54.5 | chief technology officer, chief information officer, product officer, chief strategist, |
| 1:01.0 | architect, and head of transformation for various organizations. |
| 1:04.7 | Most recently, I joined ThoughtWorks as the head of enterprise modernization platform and |
| 1:09.3 | cloud for North America. |
| 1:11.3 | And then I was given the opportunity to join the CTO organization and strategy team |
| 1:16.3 | to lead the Americas, which is essentially the intersection between strategy and demand |
| 1:22.5 | and our relationship to the service lines. |
| 1:25.2 | Perfect. |
| 1:25.9 | Well, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:28.9 | And just to be fair to the audience, |
| 1:35.3 | Thomas and I work together on a fairly regular basis. So we'll try to keep this to not use insider terms and so forth. So I want to talk you about a bunch of different things. So first off, |
| 1:41.6 | you know, CTO for a larger company like ours, what are you looking at from |
| 1:46.1 | technology perspective? What are your priorities for 2025? Well, I think that when I look at the |
| 1:52.6 | market landscape and I think of the position that ThoughtWorks has in it, I look at the application |
| 1:58.7 | of artificial intelligence for software delivery at scale. |
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