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    Scaling Uber from 40 Engineers to Thousands: Lessons from Thuan Pham

    Published on 01.04.2026

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    Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham, Uber's First CTO

    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.

    Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)

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