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

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.

Part-Time VPE 40

Part-Time VPE Recruiting Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 40

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

CEO Kelly Ahuja tells TechCrunch that the proceeds, which bring Versa’s total capital raised to $316 million, will be put toward go-to-market efforts and scaling the company. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

Security 193

Security Network WAN Fractional VPE 193

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.

Part-Time VPE 76

Part-Time VPE Engineering Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 76

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. Ensure each team includes people who have business, market, and product expertise. Give each team full responsibility over particular products or market segments. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

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.

Infrastructure 70

Infrastructure Programming Conference Fractional VPE 70

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. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. See the “Make Time for Learning” section.). The VP liked what I had to say.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

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 111

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 111

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.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. all you need is a credit card and a few hundred dollars), but should the startup become wildly successful or completely fail, the time-to-market and time-to-shutdown is nearly immediate. There, I said it!

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

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.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75