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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

TechCrunch

Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. You can check out the video of their demo here. Fong hails from Dropbox, where he served as VP of Infrastructure Engineering.

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Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort

TechCrunch

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. “Christine had been on our technical board of advisors for quite some time,” he said.

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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. Have your contractor demo whatever they can. The truth is, I’ve delivered many software projects staffed partially or entirely by contractors.

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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.

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. “See that woman there?”

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. “See that woman there?”

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Lessons Learned on the Path to Managing with Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode, we’re talking to Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall (CTO of Songkick) about the path from programmer to manager. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. Learn more and sign up for a demo at gitprime.com. Episode 15. Show Notes.