What we’re about
We are a community of longtime, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Our mission is to help each other learn through conversation and sharing of ideas.
We host monthly in-person events on the first Tuesday of each month.
Leadership is a learnable skill, however learning about leadership in the technology industry is often left to chance. This often leads to frustration for both leaders and those being led.
Many technology leaders get the job by default. They are the best or most senior technologist and suddenly find themselves leading meetings, negotiating for resources, making strategic decisions, participating in hiring, and a whole range of other mission-critical activities that fall outside of the technical toolbox. The world of leading / managing talented technologists can be messy.
We have many leaders practicing different leadership / management approaches from various companies around us. We can all learn from each other by coming together and sharing our experiences.
We aim to create an open community of people managers and technology leaders to exchange regularly about managing teams, solving difficult organisational topics, discovering new ways of working with the people we are allowed to mentor and all other aspects.
Just like in the core of tech, managing people and teams is never "done" and there is always new things to learn, impulses to follow, old practices to discard or revive. This is the place to help each other and move forward, become more professional and grow for ourselves and for the people and organisations we lead.
The hypothesis being that sharing our experiences will grow us into better leaders which over the long term will make the technology industry a better place for everyone.
Thank you to our sponsors Peach Payments, Moonpay, and OfferZen
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Peach Payments (https://www.peachpayments.com/) make online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across Africa. We believe in the potential of Africa and aim to grow into more countries. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and large merchants in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and disburse payments through web and mobile. Our merchant partners include your favourite food delivery services, whether you are ordering in or using a meal kit, travel services that can help you book your next getaway adventure and even your neighbour’s side-hustle e-commerce store. For these partners and their customers, we aim to provide brilliant experiences that make it as easy as possible to facilitate online payments.
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MoonPay (https://www.moonpay.com/) believes in building a world where you own your digital future, giving you control of your identity, money, property and data.
We are the market leader in end-to-end solutions simplifying access to the crypto economy for 20M+ people across 180+ countries, and trusted by iconic global brands including wallets, marketplaces, exchanges and leading web2 enterprises.
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OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Tech Leadership Meetup with Marcelo Dauane (Engineering Manager at MoonPay)9 Jamieson St, Cape Town
Join us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup. There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.
The event will be hosted at the OfferZen offices in Cape Town.
The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:00 - 18:05 - Introduction and house rules.
18:05 - 19:00 - Main speaker - Marcelo Dauane.
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap up.Topic of Main Talk - World-Class Teams. World-Class Products
This talk reflects what I believe and have experienced about building high-performing teams that deliver world-class products. It focuses on two core pillars: culture and systems. Ownership, pragmatism, and simplicity drive teams forward, while clarity, transparency, and trust enable leaders to align and amplify their impact. Paired with systems like continuous delivery, open accessibility, and data-driven execution, these elements create teams capable of delivering transformative software at scale. Whether you’re an IC or a leader, this is the blueprint for building teams that excel.
Marcelo Dauane is a product builder with over a decade of experience creating software that delivers impact at scale. Based in Cape Town and originally from Mozambique, he is on a mission to turn engineering teams into high-performing powerhouses by leveraging data, product direction, and soft skills. As the leader of two engineering teams at MoonPay, the world’s top crypto onramp, Marcelo has helped scale platforms serving millions worldwide. He thrives at the intersection of culture, systems, and people, driving teams to create products that truly make a difference.
Thank you to our sponsors Peach Payments, MoonPay, and OfferZen
Peach Payments (https://www.peachpayments.com/) make online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across all Africa. We believe in the potential of Africa and aim to grow into more countries. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and large merchants in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and disburse payments through web and mobile. Our merchant partners include your favourite food delivery services, whether you are ordering in or using a meal kit, travel services that can help you book your next getaway adventure and even your neighbour’s side-hustle e-commerce store. For these partners and their customers, we aim to provide brilliant experiences that make it as easy as possible to facilitate online payments.
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MoonPay (https://www.moonpay.com/) believes in building a world where you own your digital future, giving you control of your identity, money, property and data.
We are the market leader in end-to-end solutions simplifying access to the crypto economy for 20M+ people across 180+ countries, and trusted by iconic global brands including wallets, marketplaces, exchanges and leading web2 enterprises.---
OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.
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