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Render raises $4.5M for its DevOps platform

TechCrunch

Render , the winner of our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield, today announced that it has added another $4.5 The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner.

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Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across Africa

TechCrunch

Over 100,000 engineers have taken part in the company’s learning network and community, and, as of 2019, Andela had more than 1,500 engineers on its payroll. In September 2019, it let go of 420 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

Craft Conference returns in person for the first time since 2019! One of the largest software developer conferences in the region, with unmissable talks and workshops between 31 May to 3 June. that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. . About Craft Conference. Check out the speakers!

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

Gitprime

That was the subject of a webinar we held with Matt Greenberg (VP of Engineering at Credit Carma), Erica Stanley (Software Engineering Manager at SalesLoft), and Lara Hogan (founder of Wherewithall and author of the book Resilient Management ). FIND OTHER OBJECTIVES TO COLLECT ALONG THE WAY.

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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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. I had one full-time employee in one part-time employee and we did staff augmentation. We were pretty flat at the time.