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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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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.

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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

Having raised $169 million to date, Contentstack plans to put the funding toward customer acquisition, geographic expansion, new partnerships and product development, CEO Neha Sampat tells TechCrunch. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

In the software development field, we always hear famous names like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, George H. That is why today I decided to write about amazing successful, talented and influential women in software development. 20 influential women in software development. . 20 influential women in software development. .

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How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

Gitprime

For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. In this interview, Buriticá delves into the ins and outs of sourcing engineers in other countries, including universal lessons he’s learned from his own very particular experiences.

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

I wrote The Future of DevSecOps in June 2019 after gathering insights from IT professionals who foresaw: greater adoption, security being ingrained in development, and, AI/ML-driven automation. When developing an application, user experience needs to be a top priority as end users are among the most important stakeholders.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

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?