Series 2 - Episode 10 - Asitha Rodrigo (CTO, SAPI) – What truly motivates a high performing engineering team

Asitha Rodrigo (CTO, SAPI) is a renowned innovative CTO, Prior to SAPI, he was the CTO at Seedrs. Previously Asitha was Chief Technology Officer at a number of high growth Private Equity backed businesses in the financial services and media industries. He has a passion for building and maintaining high performing technology teams.

In this episode, Asitha shares with us the key ingredients that contribute to a motivated engineering team and how do you connect the company's vision/goals to the engineering team.

He also gives us an insight into what steps a CTO can take to create a positive environment for high performing engineers and how foster a culture of innovation, together with uncovering the best way to strike a balance between providing guidance/direction whilst allowing the engineering team autonomy.

Along with his key takeaways, Asitha also leaves us with top tips on how a leader can ensure that collaboration and knowledge sharing is really happening.