TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

” Shutting down its existing physical campuses and going remote also helped the company focus on getting engineers with more experience to meet its clients’ requirements. That experiment, which the company conducted in less than a year, is also part of its mission to be a global company.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But a United Nations report estimates that we’ll need to double global food production by 2050 to meet the needs of 10 billion people. Rising demand for meat is driven in part by the rise of a global middle class. Image Credits: Dilok Klaisataporn (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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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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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sudhir Menon will lead our Engineering and Support teams as our new Chief Product Officer. He has been with Cloudera since early 2020, serving as VP of Engineering – Platforms and then as Corporate VP Hybrid Cloud. This will be a very engaging conversation and I hope you will attend.

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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.

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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. This collaboration will enable us to deliver cutting-edge solutions that not only meet but exceed our customers expectations.

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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. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. Start by building a network and a brand.

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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.

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Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

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. It’s more writing and less talking,” Shoup says.

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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.

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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.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

The diagram below is one effort to identify more granular labels that I assembled for an internal meeting. Business stakeholders then get handed a clearer tradeoff: do we invest now, or do we decide meeting our 99.9% Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. You probably won’t have a lot of time, so stay focused on the big picture. It’s also often best if you approach your meeting as a conversation, rather than a presentation with slides, but your allies will know the best approach for your specific situation.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 4, 2021

This is the second time we’ve grown an executive from within. One year ago, I wrote a similar post welcoming Emily Nakashima to her new role as VP of Engineering. At Honeycomb, it’s important to me that we promote people and hire from within, and that we be transparent about what we choose to reward as an organization.

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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.” Here at Cloudera we are excited to host future events for NiFi developers, so stay tuned to find out what’s next.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. You probably won’t have a lot of time, so stay focused on the big picture. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering.

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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.

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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. After that, you’ll often see the optimizing phase—the top part of the S-curve, where it flattens out and growth is slower. “In

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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 let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all. That’s insane. Djimy Charles.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You usually only have one VP of engineering,” Nightingale says.

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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 let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all.

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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 let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all.

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Xicom

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Also, with the increasing government initiatives in support of this emerging trend, more global players are expected to enter the market, making it crucial to hire mobile app developers with proven and experienced skill sets. In the present scenario, the smart travelling market is moderately concentrated.

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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.”. The system is supposed to be reliable if its SLIs continuously meet SLOs. Otherwise, a provider will pay some kind of penalty.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Take a tour in our video gallery, where you’ll find a wealth of positive feedback from sponsors, attendees and speakers: Video. . Get your tickets here and let’s meet at the conference! To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Got interested?

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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.

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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.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Everyone was looking for real-time insights by analyzing what is going on currently within their businesses and taking corrective action pro-actively. Cloudera DataFlow (CDF), the industry’s leading real-time streaming data platform, was truly at the frontlines helping our customers find clarity with their data during these dark times.

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Netlify

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Suddenly we were in multiple meetings, writing proposals, doing research on alternatives, and considering how this would fold into our existing systems — none of which were helping us build out and validate this idea. In a conversation with Dalia Havens , our VP of Engineering, we dug into the problem.

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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.

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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).

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture.

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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”.

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Netlify

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I’ve been a fan of Ire’s for some time. She is the COO and VP of Engineering at a crypto currency exchange based in Nigeria. But I find it hard to pick out just a few of them as the quality of the speakers and their talks was, once again, rather wonderful. Ire Aderinokun of BuyCoins.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.

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