#539 How eBay Supercharges Their Workplace Culture with Mazen Rawashdeh, Senior Vice President and CTO at eBay

Today we’re talking to Mazen Rawashdeh, Senior Vice President and CTO at eBay; and we discuss the many benefits of sabbaticals and maintaining a healthy work-life balance; how to supercharge workplace culture; and why competition should inform strategy, not drive it.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

About Mazen Rawashdeh:

eBay veteran Rawashdeh spent eight years in technology leadership roles with the Company from 2003 to 2011 before departing to serve as Vice President, Infrastructure Operation Engineering at Twitter where he helped scale the business through its IPO. After four additional years as an angel investor and tech advisor, Rawashdeh returned to eBay in 2016 to lead Platform Engineering. As Chief Technology Officer, Rawashdeh will continue to lead platform engineering and the Company’s infrastructure and platform architecture, as well as AI, research and data science, payment and risk engineering, and eBay’s third-party developer ecosystem and APIs.

About eBay:

eBay Inc. is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We exist to enable economic opportunity for individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations of all sizes.

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Joel Beasley founded the Modern CTO Podcast in 2017 while writing his book, the Modern CTO book, with the goal of interviewing CTOs and sharing their experiences with others in the tech community.

Joel’s conversational style and insightful questions quickly gained traction, attracting high-profile guests such as Microsoft’s CTO, Kevin Scott, and T-Mobile’s CIO, Cody Stanford. With each episode, the podcast’s popularity continued to grow, and soon, Joel found himself with a waiting list of future guests.

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