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Published on 01.04.2026
TLDR: Thuan Pham was Uber's first and longest-serving CTO, overseeing the company's growth from 40 engineers and a system that crashed weekly to one of the most complex distributed systems in the world. He covers the org decisions, architecture rewrites, and lessons from seven years at Uber, plus his current work at Faire and what he sees AI doing to software engineering.