TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

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. “Adversarial machine learning attacks are not loud like ransomware — you have to be looking for them to catch them in time,” Sestito said.

Artificial Inteligence 236

Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Part-Time VPE Research 236

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. AAA for example has a notable business not just in roadside assistance but also insurance coverage.

Real Estate 250

Real Estate Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Insurance 250

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Wijegunawardena recalls that ten or more years ago, when Box was a growing company, it could not spring for the high-end video chat systems for remote engineers, so they used Google Hangouts instead. “We Use high-touch onboarding.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Battery Ventures

MARCH 1, 2019

I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want.

Part-Time VPE 55

Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team Culture Recruiting 55

CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Second, if you’re selling software and services to other companies, you’re going to find that many have paused spending on new tools while they sort out exactly what their approach should be to the GenAI era. Finding similar text is reduced to finding the distance between two vectors.

Artificial Inteligence 190

Artificial Inteligence Part-Time VPE Artificial Intelligence Training 190

AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Asure recognized the potential of generative AI to further enhance the user experience and better understand the needs of the customer and wanted to find a partner to help realize it. As we embarked on our journey at Asure to integrate generative AI into our solutions, finding the right partner was crucial.

Generative AI 69

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Metrics AWS 69

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2020

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. Why did you decide to build this system?

Part-Time VPE 82

Part-Time VPE Data Advertising Data Engineering 82

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.

Engineering 75

Engineering Part-Time VPE Policies Performance 75

Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Zendesk’s global offices are a great example. The company values transparency, especially on the engineering side, so that an engineer in Copenhagen can understand and leverage work happening in San Francisco. Our environment allows developers to find solutions that have already been developed.

Organization 118

Organization Software Review Open Source Part-Time VPE 118

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”. Conferences aren’t telling CxOs about the virtues of data engineering. We have conferences on data engineering. That’s great.

Data Engineering 112

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 112

Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

Her preferred coaching method is working side-by-side with testers and teams to help them understand their problems and find good ways to deliver better business value. She splits her time between writing, speaking, teaching, helping teams, and working with her own team at ePlan Services Inc. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez.

Software Development 111

Software Development Software Review Technical Review Software 111

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

For example, MEDDIC —or the variant I’m more familiar with, MEDDPICC. For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% SLO isn’t important and we’re ok with reducing the target to, for example, 99.5%? Interested in reading more about engineering management?

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 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.

Engineering 52

Engineering Part-Time VPE Policies Performance 52

GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

Organization 59

Organization Technical Review Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team 59

Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

They’re well attended by folks from all different parts of the org (in our company of ~100 people, usually at least 60 show up), and even for roles not directly associated with product development, we’ve added “go to a demo day” to our onboarding plans for new hires. . Hit me up on Twitter or find me in our Pollinators Slack.

Part-Time VPE 69

Part-Time VPE Engineering Meeting Games 69

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. You might split it into the buyer side and the seller side, or the driver side and the rider side.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

Cloudera

JUNE 5, 2023

Cloudera VP of Engineering and NiFi founder Joe Witt, joined by principal committers Mark Payne and Matt Gillman, addressed the global community via a virtual event dubbed “ Meet the Committers.” It is deployable, has clear business value, and serves as a great example of universal data distribution in action.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Google Cloud Part-Time VPE Software Review 77

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To move to new zones—for example, if a team is fluent in the Focusing zone, and wants to add Delivering or Optimizing fluency— kaikaku is still the best approach. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew. Don’t give up.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Also, after this event, we had a meeting with our Principal Engineer and software development team to discuss this topic as we noticed that in each company it is slightly different. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

Engineering 32

Engineering Part-Time VPE Software Engineering Engineering Culture 32

James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame.

Software Engineering 63

Software Engineering Technical Advisors Engineering Software 63

Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct.

Programming 74

Programming Infrastructure Conference Fractional VPE 74

Xicom

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

For example, in Europe, numerous big American Football stadiums and other related sports opted mobile ticketing, and with aficionados entering stadiums via mobile accessed provisions, this trend is predicted to achieve attention in Europe. The mobile ticketing trend is here for a long stay among numerous sports and entertainment events.

Travel 52

Travel Mobile Part-Time VPE Transportation 52

Honeycomb

MARCH 1, 2023

This blog shares how Honeycomb users Slack, HelloFresh, and Intercom implemented and incorporated distributed tracing and how it helped accelerate their development cycles—and find fast answers to complex problems. For example, using this method with Honeycomb, the team was able to fix a Git checkout quickly and easily.

System 59

System Company Part-Time VPE Microservices 59

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. To move to new zones—for example, if a team is fluent in the Focusing zone, and wants to add Delivering or Optimizing fluency— kaikaku is still the best approach. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The VP liked what I had to say.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Watch the full panel discussion below. Thank you both so much for joining us today.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane. What is Workplace Productivity?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Netlify

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We didn’t want to leave ourselves open to problems later, but at the same time we were losing the autonomy and speed that we had hoped to gain. In a conversation with Dalia Havens , our VP of Engineering, we dug into the problem. The links between codebases should be limited and easy to find.

Weak Development Team 56

Weak Development Team Development Serverless Part-Time VPE 56

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. Examples of toil are. SRE’s rule of thumb is to keep toil below 50 percent of engineers’ work time.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. I am VP of Engineering over there.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. 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).

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Just ask the many software engineers that engage in hack-a-thons every couple of months, only to find their ideas come to life within weeks…now that’s exciting! Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it!

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver. Our panelists offered their insights into how to mark the continuous journey of a software engineer between the big promotions. We didn’t have anything defined,” he says.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. You can share these ideas as an examples of what to do to support your Agile teams. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. Theyre only expected to have classroom engineering skills.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Stackery

MAY 9, 2019

Impostors syndrome: that perennial juggling act between vocational ambition and that sneaking suspicion that you’ll arrive at work on a Wednesday only to find your desk sold for parts, the room darkened, and a semicircle of coworkers with flashlights under their chins, serving you with a notarized document that reads “the jig is up”.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE Serverless 40