---
title: "About Aviv Zaken"
description: "Aviv Zaken is an engineering leader, founder, and CTO writing practical lessons from his experience building products and leading teams."
date: 2026-09-12
author: "Aviv Zaken"
url: "https://avivzaken.com/about/"
---

# About Aviv Zaken


I’m an engineering leader, founder, and CTO. I’ve learned most of what I know by making decisions with incomplete information, living with the results, and adjusting.

**CTO Field Notes** is where I turn that experience into practical lessons—what worked for me, what didn’t, and what I’d do differently next time.

## What CTO Field Notes Covers


- [Engineering Leadership](https://avivzaken.com/topics/engineering-leadership/index.md) — Team design, technical strategy, metrics, and organizational judgment.
- [AI-Assisted Engineering](https://avivzaken.com/topics/ai-assisted-engineering/index.md) — Review capacity, evals, useful metrics, and AI-era team design.
- [Software Delivery](https://avivzaken.com/topics/software-delivery/index.md) — Roadmaps, small bets, product engineering, and reliable delivery.
- [Technical Risk](https://avivzaken.com/topics/technical-risk/index.md) — Code review, software quality, technical debt, and recovery.


The topics overlap by design. AI-assisted development changes review and measurement. Technical debt changes delivery risk. Team design changes how much judgment an organization can apply. The aim is to examine those connections rather than treat each decision in isolation.

## Follow the Field Notes

- [Read all field notes](/docs/)
- [Subscribe by RSS](/index.xml)
- [Connect with Aviv on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avivzaken/)