TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 7, 2023

Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. A CTO can help you find the right answers. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The company has 15 employees so far and is looking to hire around half a dozen high-end engineers. He points out that his VP of Engineering is a woman. He found the files were so huge, it wasn’t practical to download them, so he came up with this way of streaming them that would become the basis for Activeloop.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner. “DevOps engineers are extremely expensive to hire and extremely hard to find, especially good ones.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Ghodsi took over as CEO in 2016 after serving as the company’s VP of engineering. Or, perhaps a company wants to find patterns in some economic data. How do they find that information? He’s also a co-founder.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. That’s right: engineers have rights and responsibilities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

We can actually show that their income stability is totally there, they’ve been employed for a long time, and they’re actually going to perform much better [in repaying a loan],” Lin said. Pinwheel has hired a number of its employees from $13.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. Masar, who has several startups under his belt, previously was the VP of engineering at Represent.com, an apparel e-commerce merchant.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So to help founders understand what a good tech stack should look like, we invited two experts on this topic, Preeti Somal , the EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp and Jill Wetzler , the VP of Engineering at Pilot , to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to discuss everything from evaluating vendors to making sure you can rely on an open source product.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Van der Voort, who had previously been VP of product at GitLab, where he was a supporter of remote work but also someone who understood those challenges first-hand: he helped to build that organization’s remote team to 450 employees from just five.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%. Find five co-workers to recommend on LinkedIn, reach out to someone you haven’t spoken to in a while, and do your best to keep your mind in the present moment. Dear Sophie: Will a doctor get a green card faster than an engineer?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“By building an investment fund focused on blockchain opportunities, we get to spend our time doing due diligence on teams and tech in web3, which gives us insight into what is missing in the market,” Mike Boroughs, co-founder and managing partner of Fortis Digital Ventures, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“Until then, what usually happens is that the VP of engineering would pick the brightest developer in the team and say, hey, please start doing security as well,” said Sidhwani. CommandK has an all-remote team of seven employees, consisting of engineers and one designer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Other participants in the round include DCM (Kyle Liu), Bling Capital (Ben Ling), and Precursor Ventures (Charles Hudson), as well as angels including Ancestry CEO Deborah Liu, Giphy founder Alex Chung, and Twitter VP of Engineering Nick Caldwell, formerly of Reddit. The idea to return to human curation, not A.I., these days.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Andela , a New York-based startup that helps tech companies build remote engineering teams from Africa , was one of the first to publicly announce it was going remote on the continent. Today, it is doubling down on this effort by announcing the global expansion of its engineering talent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

And Remote is also getting cosier with other parts of the HR chain of services: applicant tracking system Greenhouse is now integrating with it to help with the onboarding process for new hires. A lot of new hires, as well as existing employees who are possibly not from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Among notable hires, Lauren Crossett, formerly of Plaid and Quovo, has joined the company as head of commercial. The company has also signed a VP of Engineering, who will join in the next few weeks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

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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Modern CTO

APRIL 25, 2025

Having held leadership roles including Chief Technology Officer, VP of Engineering, VP of Product Management, and VP of Information Security, his leadership experience includes SaaS engineering, product management, SaaS operations, mobile engineering, information security, regulatory compliance, and devops leadership.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

It also plans to expand its team, starting with two new hires it announced in conjunction with the fundraise – a new head of engineering and product lead, Gaurav Garg and Zack Reneau-Weeden.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

.” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel. Shmueli was formerly the VP of back-end infrastructure at Mellanox Technologies and the VP of engineering at Habana Labs.

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BeautifulCode

JULY 15, 2019

Hiring and retaining best talent, creating a culture that keeps everyone on top of their game, well planned execution and ensuring high competence bar for individual team members are the top tasks of a good VP of Engineering.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Even shielded behind an API, hackers can attempt to reverse-engineer the models underpinning these services or use “adversarial” data to tamper with them. Sestito, the former director of threat research at Cylance and VP of engineering at Qualys, co-founded the company several months ago with Tanner Burns and Jim Ballard.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 9, 2021

SVP of Engineering and VP of Alliances and Channels join executive team to drive continued growth MCLEAN, Virginia — March 9, 2021 — Logi Analytics, the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software teams, today announces the appointment of Vijay Pendyala as Senior VP of Engineering and Jeff Seifert as VP of Alliances and […].

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Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. The engineering team at Splice is now fifty-something people. We grew from five engineers to fifty-five in about the first eighteen months, fully distributed,” Buriticá says. “We

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. My general answer is “no.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

These smaller, intimate sessions are designed to allow industry experts and attendees the time and forum to get to the heart of various topics across the mobility spectrum. We haven’t even touched on the TC Sessions: Mobility Pitch-off and the early-stage startups you’ll find on our expo floor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

Or, why science and engineering are still different disciplines. "A He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.". A few months ago, I wrote about the differences between data engineers and data scientists. That was interesting because the data engineers didn’t push back saying they’re data scientists. That’s great.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within. Overdue.”. “Um.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founder and CEO David Zamir is not actually an Uber alum, but one of his first employees, VP of Engineering Oliver Nicholas, is an early Uber engineer, and the company has also found a lot of traction of Uber drivers this year, after many found themselves out of work after the chilling effect that the pandemic had on ridesharing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

We certainly see its ability to give us a unique advantage in finding new biology.”. But with this most recent funding round, the company has landed six more C-suite hires. . Daniel Anderson, former VP of biology at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, will join as chief scientific officer. Alfred Freddie Bowie, Jr.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“We find ourselves in an extremely good place to have the right solution that meets the market needs.” 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.

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Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

If your startup is growing, you’re hiring. And if you’re hiring senior-level talent, you probably need an outside recruiter. Few in-house recruiters have the expertise or network that a professional, third-party recruiter offers. However, there’s good news: The right recruiter does much more than hire someone.

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

Mentorship supports movement from college intern to VP of Application Engineering From day one as a college intern, Jason Burke was assigned a mentor to help him navigate his role. As VP of Engineering, Burke now leads multiple web and mobile development teams, as well as Discover’s customer delivery channels.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hire the right people to build the company. For smaller investors, it’s a case of being on the regular updates, and when the CEO asks if anyone knows an amazing VP of engineering, to reach into your little black book of contacts to see if they can help in some way. Whatever you do, don’t run out of money.

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