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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

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With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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Books I consumed in 2017

Erik Bernhardsson

The Principles of Product Development Flow build upon The Goal pretty nicely and handles the case of substantial variance (like in the case of software engineering). I’ve seen leaders in tech who stopped coding way too early and I see how their leadership skills end up suffering because their technical judgement was never fine tuned.

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Books I consumed in 2017

Erik Bernhardsson

The Principles of Product Development Flow build upon The Goal pretty nicely and handles the case of substantial variance (like in the case of software engineering). I’ve seen leaders in tech who stopped coding way too early and I see how their leadership skills end up suffering because their technical judgement was never fine tuned.

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17 professional organizations for Black IT pros

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Moreover, Black IT pros — even those in leadership positions — still encounter unique challenges both in the workplace and in their career paths. Black Code Collective The Black Code Collective (BCC) was started in 2016 to create a safe space and community for Black software engineers.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

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The project was awarded a 2022 US CIO 100 Award for leadership and innovation. The startup focused on federal contracts and earned its first contract with the Secret Service in 2017. And it’s working. To date, the Searchable Museum has served more than 1.6 Today, it employs more than 200.

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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

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A 2017 poll in the Pew Research Center report found that 50% of women said they had experienced gender discrimination at work , while only 19% of men said the same. I am, and have always been, blown away by what Ada can offer students as a nonprofit organization,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf.

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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

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In a blog post in February 2017 , she described her boss coming on to her in a company chat channel on her first day on the job. Four female engineers spoke with me about their challenges: Tammy Butow, principal software reliability engineer (SRE) at Gremlin. Rona Chong, software engineer at Grove Collaborative.