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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Sherry Zhou, Engineering Manager

Cloudera

Sherry is an Engineering Manager for the CDV (Cloudera Data Visualization) team. Her team’s objectives are to, first, make it easier for analysts to explore data, enabling them to uncover interesting trends in product features and performance.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

CIO

The best salesperson does not always make the best sales manager. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager. In my most recent CIO.com article on nurturing high-performing teams , I made a comment that stirred some questions. That doesn’t work in this day and age.

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Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews

TechCrunch

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. The end of the year is looming and with it one of your most important tasks as a manager. Another example is that of an engineer who is dipping their toe into multiple projects. Share on Twitter.

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A Detailed Guide on Conducting Effective System Design Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Uber, Instagram, and Twitter (now X) are all examples of ‘systems’. The role of a system design engineer includes creating the architecture for different components of a given system, and defining how they interact with each other for a common goal. scalability, performance, fault tolerance).

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO

For example, he says, web application firewalls don’t only protect applications but cut networking costs by reducing spurious and malicious traffic. For example, he uses the Titaniam encryption engine to support several data protection use cases, as well as security tools provided by cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft.

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Interview with Annie Freeman, Green Software Expert

Apiumhub

Our first interview was with Paola Annis , engineering manager at Microsoft and founding member of the Green Software Foundation , and now we had the pleasure of having an interview with Annie Freeman. Microsoft’s Windows 11 updates are a good example of a concrete initiative that addresses the environmental impact of software.