TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 7, 2023

Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. This is a safe choice, of course - but is it the best choice? It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

CTO Coach 260

CTO Coach Fractional CTO Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 260

TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The real estate sales market has been in an upswing this year, and today a startup that’s addressing one of homeowners’ biggest needs — repair and maintenance services, and specifically the stress of sorting these out when things break down — is announcing some funding on the heels of strong growth. More on that below.

Real Estate 250

Real Estate Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Insurance 250

Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

Part-Time VPE 58

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Fractional VPE 58

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers. And it kills that abstraction.”.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

“While the adoption of artificial intelligence to gain access to valuable corporate assets is a concern on the horizon, a failure to patch basic vulnerabilities has threat actors not needing to advance their approach,” Chris Novak, Verizon’s Senior Director of Cybersecurity Consulting said in a statement this week.

Infrastructure 70

Infrastructure Programming Conference Fractional VPE 70

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

Similar to when data scientists quit without a data engineer, data engineers who don’t get recognition and appreciation will quit. Don’t kid yourself; there’s an equally hot job market for qualified data engineers as there is for data scientists. Even the Italians knew the importance of data engineers in the 1400s.

Data Engineering 111

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 111

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96