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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Cross-team interactions felt fraught; focus was constantly shifting; nobody was ever sure what bar we were being measured against.

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The Bad Hiring Habit That Puts Your Company’s Reputation at Risk

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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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

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Webinars

Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. People need to grow and develop skills in order to move within the framework.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

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. Welcome, Monica! I never looked back.

Technical Review

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HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Even shielded behind an API, hackers can attempt to reverse-engineer the models underpinning these services or use “adversarial” data to tamper with them. 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.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. VP of Engineering – tech team management. If CTO is an enthusiast, then VP of Engineering is a great manager. Engineering tasks.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

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. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. Worked there.

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Optimize for Deletion: Speed Up Development Without Adding Risk

Netlify

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We wanted to be as autonomous as possible, so we reached for Hasura as a data layer because it would allow us to stand up a full-blown backend for our app without bothering other teams to provision databases or build APIs. We felt confident it would be a huge speed boost for development.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Scaling startups are often concerned with the first inflection point of their team size.

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

Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.

Engineering

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

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

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Attackers Pounce on Unpatched Vulns, DBIR Says, as Critical Infrastructure Orgs Benefit from CISA’s Alert Program

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

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

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

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

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. Our team has spent days preparing this guide to help you understand how to make the most out of every day. Whereas, in June, your team manufactured 10,000 pairs of shoes. That’s insane.

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

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. Our team has spent days preparing this guide to help you understand how to make the most out of every day. Whereas, in June, your team manufactured 10,000 pairs of shoes. That’s insane.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For over a decade, two similar concepts — DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) — have been coexisting in the world of software development. In essence, two methodologies do the same thing: They try to bridge the gap between development and operations teams. At first glimpse, they look like competing approaches.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. He then took over as Chief Product Officer for Hubba, helping that team triple in size while improving its diversity stats. Why management matters.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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Scaling Technology and Organizations Together with Randy Shoup

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

When startups are first setting out, the initial team is small and usually solving relatively discrete (albeit central) problems. But at scale, the quantity and size of the problems grow larger than a single manageable team can handle. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork.

Organization

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

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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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Second Edition cover.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Eric is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at MailChimp, which is a product you should be using if you’re not, and just one of my new favorite people, we met recently.

Engineering

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. Like it’s exciting to have this new opportunity, new sets of skills to develop, but also, it’s a lot of responsibility, and people get no training. Transcript.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? CFS(cloud file system), EOS (Egnyte object store), Content Security, Event Sync, Search Service, User behavior based recommendation service form major parts of the system. You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

The Bad Hiring Habit That Puts Your Company’s Reputation at Risk

Webinars

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Webinars

An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

The Rise of the Front-End Developer

Optimize for Deletion: Speed Up Development Without Adding Risk

Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

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

How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Cybersecurity Snapshot: Attackers Pounce on Unpatched Vulns, DBIR Says, as Critical Infrastructure Orgs Benefit from CISA’s Alert Program

Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

Scaling Technology and Organizations Together with Randy Shoup

Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

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