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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. A Lever for Change This is where the new career ladder comes in.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It turns out that being able to write software is only a small part of the job.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Sherry Zhou, Engineering Manager

Cloudera

Sherry is an Engineering Manager for the CDV (Cloudera Data Visualization) team. I learned a lot more about what goes into team planning and management of resources, and how the product relates to the team.” Software development is a creative outlet for me,” she said. What’s Next?

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Galileo emerges from stealth to streamline AI model development

TechCrunch

After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget. As for Sheth, he also worked at Google as a staff software engineer, managing the Google Speech Recognizer platform.

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Top 20 Female Speakers in Software Development Events

Apiumhub

In recent years, there has been an increasing effort to include more female speakers at software development events. Lack of Representation: When there are few female role models or speakers in the software development community, it becomes challenging for aspiring female developers to see themselves in those positions.

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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

TechCrunch

Mintlify , a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 CEO Han Wang says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and doubling Mintlify’s core, three-person team by the end of the year.