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How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant

TechCrunch

Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Submitted for Your Approval Why tell you all this?

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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

Just like their software engineering counterparts, data scientists will have to interact with the business side. My one sentence definition of a data scientist is: a data scientist is someone who has augmented their math and statistics background with programming to analyze data and create applied mathematical models.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. We still need to add Principal Engineer for the engineer track, and specialty skills, but this is enough for a foundation. Verdict: Jury’s still out on this one.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Sherry Zhou, Engineering Manager

Cloudera

Sherry is an Engineering Manager for the CDV (Cloudera Data Visualization) team. I also really like the company’s Cloudera Cares program, which matches donations to charities and causes.” She adds, “They are always coming up with new and interesting programs.” What’s Next?

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.