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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

.” Contentstack, which was founded in 2018, was created on the back of fifteen-year-old consulting firm Raw Engineering and Built.io, an app development platform that Raw Engineering launched in 2013. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

TechCrunch

“This includes cutting non-performing products, decreasing R&D and general and administrative expenses, and doubling down on creative strategies to recover customer acquisition cost instantly to reduce burn associated with growth.” Dear Sophie: Will a doctor get a green card faster than an engineer? .

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Those are opportunities you can create to stretch engineers,” he says. More consistent, practical procedures like pair programming are great, but sometimes the nature of the projects don’t always support that.”.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. After a successful period as VP of Engineering at FreeAgent, Maria recently took up a whole new challenge.

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

Rick Vanover , Senior Director Product Strategy, Veeam : There is an incredible opportunity for traditional IT organizations to align to the DevSecOps practices today as well as work to modernize legacy platforms. Maturing and expanding threat modeling, standard defenses, Appsec training, and champions program are also strong moves.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

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.