#50 Cody Sanford CIO at T-Mobile

Episode 50 ·

Today we are talking to Cody Sanford, the CIO of T-Mobile. AAnd we discuss the future of 5g, how t-mobile is using Alexa, and why it’s all about the people when building a technology product.

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

Show Notes

  • Start - Typical day for Cody
  • Talking about Stem and kids
  • On the board for Washington better schools
  • Robotics first
  • Hosted a IoT Hackathon
  • 19 year journey from starting at t-mobile to becoming CIO
  • Spent 7 years in Engineering and Operations
  • Spent a few years leading sales on the west coast
  • Lightsaber battles between CTO and CIO
  • Cody’s side is the software side of the house
  • Transformation to the Uncarrier Journey - ATT tried to buy but deal fell apart
  • In a broken industry and the way to fix it is to listen to the customers
  • John Legere is what you see
  • Gets in his flow state when he runs, does a lot of problem solving
  • Cody is a Mood runner - old school hip hop
  • Uncarrier moves - Music Freedom
  • 5g What's going on with 5g?
  • Brings 15x speeds - 450 average download speed
  • Incredibly low latency - as low as 10ms - Great for Autonomous Vehicles
  • IoT and 5g
  • Hologram.io
  • Saw first 5g dev kit
  • Had a need to pull cell phone records
  • Support the Dev Community
  • How to use the Dev Community to create ecosystems through the open source community
  • Stripe used the dev community to explode their product
  • Do you do speaking as CIO for T-Mobile - Do something First and talk about it later
  • Making the team feel rewarded for the great work they are doing
  • Alexa is a big part of what t-mobile is doing internally
  • Doesn’t have the home automated yet
  • What are you really excited about at T-Mobile - Sprint merger and 5g
  • In the heart of digital transformation - about 18 mos away from fully being there
  • Layer 3 technology
  • Pivotal has been a great partner with T-mobile
  • Elon musk invites you to his house with a time machine
  • It’s all about the people
  • How do you define value?
  • How to find out more about Cody Sanford - Linkedin and Twitter
  • Clap ins when John Shows up at the call centers

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