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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

TechCrunch

CEO Jorey Ramer, who co-founded the company with Ryan Donnelly (VP of engineering), also said that another part of the investment will be used to enhance the AI tech that underpins Super’s service and pricing plans. More on that below. — Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering. As described by Gartner in 2019, SASE combines software-based wide area networking and security principles like zero trust into a single service model. .”

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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

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In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

I wrote The Future of DevSecOps in June 2019 after gathering insights from IT professionals who foresaw: greater adoption, security being ingrained in development, and, AI/ML-driven automation. Your custom code whether developed by staff, consultants, or outsourced. Eric Mizell , VP of Field Engineering at Keyfactor.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

Craft Conference returns in person for the first time since 2019! One more year we support Craft Conference as we believe this is a very interesting event. You can read more about our collaboration and past edition of the conference here. . About Craft Conference. Interested in the hottest topics of this fast changing area?

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering). Yet she’s worked with a lot of engineering leaders where that internal drive—and the resulting fulfillment—weren’t the case.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer. Marcus: I do.