From Tech Lead to Team Lead

Caleb Mellas, a former Tech Lead shares his experience six months after moving into a Team Lead role!

Intro

Responsibilities between the Tech Lead and Team Lead vary from company to company, but one thing is certain. Team Lead role is more focused on people management and Tech Lead role is more focused on leading the technical vision and implementation.

Caleb Mellas recently made a shift from Tech Lead to Team Lead role and is now sharing his learnings from his first 6 months with us!

I have asked him different questions regarding:

• his overall journey in career so far,

• his responsibilities as a tech lead and what motivated him to move to the team lead position,

• his learnings from 6 months in the role as a team lead + many more interesting insights!

Let me know what you think of more interview style of the article - I would love to hear from you. Let’s get straight into it.

Tell me a bit about your career so far?

I started out as a freelancer building html/css websites for small businesses. I kept hearing that non-technical folks needed a way to edit their content, and so learned WordPress deve…