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Mark Siebert

Mark is a full-stack engineer who cut his teeth on professional software development at Lucid Software where he specialized in building scalable backend systems. He's a huge fan of open source software and is one of the primary authors of Relate (database access library) and Cumulus (AWS infrastructure management). Mark loves watching shows with his wife, studying Chinese, and hunting Minecraft chickens.

Startup CTO

Startup CTO: How to Interview Software Engineers
By Mark Siebert on September 24, 2019

When you find a software engineer who passes your code test, you’ll want to bring them in for an in-office interview. In this part of our series on hiring software engineers as the CTO of a...

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Startup CTO

Startup CTO: How to Screen Software Engineers
By Mark Siebert on September 17, 2019

Once you’ve got software engineers applying for your job opening, you’ll need to determine who is good enough to interview, and who is not. Additionally, you’ll want to make sure the time...

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Startup CTO: How to Write a Job Listing for Software Engineers
By Mark Siebert on September 10, 2019

A great job listing is critical to attracting the sort of talent you’re looking for. Including the right information and setting good expectations about the type of position you’re offering...

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Startup CTO

Startup CTO: How to Hire Software Engineers
By Mark Siebert on September 3, 2019

At some point, your startup will scale to the point that you need additional help building your product, and as the CTO, it’s up to you to find, hire, and onboard new software engineers....

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How to Monitor AWS Lambda
By Mark Siebert on August 13, 2019

AWS Lambda is one of AWS’s most popular cloud services. It allows serverless applications to be built by dividing up an application into functions that can be triggered by changes in your...

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How to Monitor Amazon CloudFront with CloudWatch
By Mark Siebert on July 23, 2019

Amazon CloudFront is a CDN that allows you to serve content from edge locations without having to actually stand up infrastructure around the world. However, since it’s a managed service,...

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