Juan Pablo Buritica Author

Juan Pablo Buritica knows what it takes to build and scale distributed engineering teams that thrive--whether at fast-moving startups or public companies. As he writes this book, he leads global technology at Convergint as CTO. He has built product engineering teams at Stripe and Splice, always focused on technical excellence and strong team culture. Beyond his work in the industry, he has helped bootstrap the tech community in Colombia and across Latin America through conferences, meetups, and continuous community advocacy, including founding one of the largest Spanish-speaking JavaScript collectives. James Turnbull is CTO at Smartrr, an ecommerce startup focusing on subscriptions and postsale experiences for customers and merchants. Before Smartrr, he was SVP of Engineering at Sotheby's, ran startup advocacy at Microsoft, and was founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo, and in leadership roles at Glitch, Docker, Timber, and Puppet. He also had a long career in enterprise technology, working in banking, biotech, and ecommerce. He chaired the O'Reilly Velocity conference series, is a startup advisor and investor, and has written 11 technical books.