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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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Meta alumni’s startup TrueFoundry raises $2.3 million to accelerate ML deployments

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Built on Kubernetes, the custom platform works as a cloud-agnostic solution that can be deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and TensorFlow. Choudhary, who serves as CTO at TrueFoundry, also worked at Meta as a software engineer and helped the social networking giant develop products including mobile apps and live video.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO

Myself and a person I mentor both got told we were both diversity hires,” says a deputy digital director in public sector. Upon leaving the organization, the recruiter told her that she had been a token hire. Now we need to work on inclusion, and see the benefits we have to offer.” But sometimes this can do more harm than good.”

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO

Benefits of enterprise architecture There are several benefits to enterprise architecture , including resiliency and adaptability, managing supply chain disruptions, staff recruitment and retention, improved product and service delivery, and tracking data and APIs. AWS Certified Solution Architect. Axelos ITIL Master certification.

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

GreenBar

I’ve sourced contractors through my professional network, Upwork, regular job boards, corporate recruiting departments, Slack channel conversations — you name it. A technical audit of your software is the only step that requires a technical friend, advisor, or consultant (like me) who is not your contractor.

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Gorilla Logic Recognizes Exceptional Engineers Through New Principal Engineer Program

Gorilla Logic

Gorilla Logic is well-known in Latin America for having one of the toughest engineering recruitment processes. Once we achieved that, we focused on leveraging it as the foundation to build trust on clients’ key stakeholders, like the Release Train Engineer, architects, and even the CTO,” explains Julian.