article thumbnail

Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. If you have a high-risk project, it’s very convenient to go to the security blanket of putting your top engineers on it,” he says.

article thumbnail

Top 20 Female Speakers in Software Development Events

Apiumhub

Mentorship and Training: Providing mentorship and training opportunities for aspiring female speakers can help them develop their public speaking skills and build confidence to speak at software development events.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

Gitprime

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. It’s a self-fulfilling cycle.”.

article thumbnail

Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

article thumbnail

An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. These cultural changes that have led us to shift our expectations for managers have traveled from the bottom up. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights. Engineering manager’s responsibilities.

article thumbnail

Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

Maturing and expanding threat modeling, standard defenses, Appsec training, and champions program are also strong moves. This feedback loop is a great way to build the culture of security innovation and learning that’s at the core of DevSecOps. Your custom code whether developed by staff, consultants, or outsourced.

article thumbnail

Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone).