CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

Multinational insurance and finance corporation AIA New Zealand’s dream is to help make the country one of the healthiest and best protected nations in the world. As New Zealand’s largest life insurer and leading health insurer, our purpose is to help New Zealanders live longer, healthier lives,” he says. That’s the foundation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Like people needing to take a driver’s test in order to get a license, Sloyan calls the company’s technical assessment technology a “flight simulator for developers,” that gives candidates a simulated evaluation of their skills and comes back with a score and highlighted strengths.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Developers can make suggestions and adopt a style of working that’s more open and fits their needs,” he says. “If

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

In this post, Samuel talks about his journey from being a clinical researcher to supporting data engineering teams. Before Netflix, Samuel worked at Travelers Insurance in the Data Science & Engineering space, implementing real-time machine learning models to predict severity and complexity at the onset of property claims.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. Back in the dotcom boom, when software development became popular it attracted a great deal of outsiders.

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The Programmer's Paradox

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Development shops span the range between the cowboys, who are just hacking at the code furiously, and the bureaucrats, that are so ground down in organizational paperwork that little actually gets accomplished. I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. Early on I moved away from the cowboys.

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