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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In 2005 I got an opportunity at a Startup to transition my career into management. I had no idea about people management but decided to take this challenge. As I embarked on this new challenge, I realized that people management and building teams are something that I truly enjoy. I never looked back.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Additionally, he was part of the foundation team that launched the USAF/Joint Service Airborne Networking effort, recognized by MIT Technology Review in 2005 as one of the “Top Ten Emerging Technologies” that could change the world.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Additionally, he was part of the foundation team that launched the USAF/Joint Service Airborne Networking effort, recognized by MIT Technology Review in 2005 as one of the “Top Ten Emerging Technologies” that could change the world.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. .”

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Two Tales

LaunchDarkly

And then after a brief stint as a software engineering manager at a small startup I went on to work at Google, where I joined this new nascent team called Site Reliability Engineering, and that teams goal is to be, as a previous speaker mentioned, the master of disaster for Google. Speaker 2: Admin. Eric Pollmann: Yes.