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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

In his free time he enjoys gardening and playing sports with his 4 kids. Before joining Netflix, he worked at MySpace, helping implement page categorization, pathing analysis, sessionization, and more.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.”

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Engineering is still a human sport at the end of the day.”. Muntz and another VP in Engineering do a monthly VP storytelling chat with all the new hires to talk through engineering culture—how they came to the organization, what’s been important to the company’s growth, and other anecdotes that shape the company culture.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Sports and athletic activities, non-work-related reading, creating art, time with friends and family, immersion in nature, religious services, quiet contemplation, and non-tech volunteer work are the most effective ways to refresh myself now.