TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

As startups of every size hunt for ways to reduce costs and expand their customer base, the term “burn rate” takes on a new emotional aspect, particularly with regard to hiring consultants. ” Singh explains his four rules to keep product teams aligned with the product vision: Map individual aspirations with product needs.

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Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. Maria Gutierrez is a VP of Engineering and an excellent example of Scotland’s commitment to employing women in the STEM sector. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez. LinkedIn. 10 – Liz Keogh.

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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. Where do you put the contracts in place?

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers.

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Elisabeth Hendrickson spends her time embroiled in the DevOps culture at Pivotal, where she is the VP of Engineering. You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. John Arundel.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. To help protect our engineering managers and support them in some of the challenges of this changing role, I propose the following contract. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

by Ramon Balaguer – Legacy software developer at Voxel Group , Vicenç García – VP of Engineering at Voxel Group. Giving and / or receiving feedback is easy, but knowing how to do it is not so easy. Developing with legacy is cool! How to manage 20 years of legacy? What changes does an organization need to change the mindset?

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone). VP: The VP is typically the highest point on the tree for gathering everyone in a function.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. He declined to reveal revenue figures, instead pointing to San Jose-based Versa’s annual contract value, which he says grew 60% over the “past few years.”

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Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. In this interview, Buriticá delves into the ins and outs of sourcing engineers in other countries, including universal lessons he’s learned from his own very particular experiences.

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Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

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). Yet she’s worked with a lot of engineering leaders where that internal drive—and the resulting fulfillment—weren’t the case.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I remember feeling that way, at every stage of management, you know not just as a new line manager, but when I became a manager of managers, and then when I became a VPE. She hired me to be a fractional VP of Engineering at Meetup. And so I just feel for them, I care about them. It’s hard. We still chat.

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Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

It can be daunting to trust a challenging and high-stakes process to an outside consultant. A former boss of mine was a recruiter who only did VP of engineering and CTO searches. A recruiter working on contingency can’t afford to do as much in-depth work on your search as a retained consultant.

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 5, 2021

Your custom code whether developed by staff, consultants, or outsourced. Eric Mizell , VP of Field Engineering at Keyfactor. Sven Delmas , VP of Engineering at LogDNA. Jeff Stollman , Principal Security Consultant with Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing. Eddy Bobritsky , CEO of Minerva Labs.

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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 term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The VP liked what I had to say. Reaching the Economic Buyer.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

To validate their findings, they contracted another data scientist with a specialty in image processing. In the two hours I spent with the team, it was clear that the algorithm could be distributed on a general-purpose compute engine, like Spark. I started out by asking them why they created their own distributed system. Code quality.

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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. “If

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer. Marcus: I do.

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taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it! Public cloud is not something that should be considered for purely cost savings.

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