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Ghost Security emerges from stealth to defend APIs and apps from attackers

TechCrunch

CEO Greg Martin said that the capital will go toward expanding the team, building Ghost’s product, and launching pilots with potential customers. Josh Larsen, CTO, was an engineering manager at Symantec before joining Check Point as an account manager and co-founding Blackfin Security Group, which Symantec acquired in 2015.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

As I embarked on this new challenge, I realized that people management and building teams are something that I truly enjoy. I have been fortunate that as I moved from one industry to another, I was able to develop my engineering management experiences and align with the business needs. I never looked back.

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All about Machine Learning

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

So I spent an initial two years in the customer success part of the organization, building internal-facing Data Science and Machine Learning products to help drive our revenue, minimize attrition problems in that space. So I would say that’s a trade-off that is important for all engineering managers to think about.

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Moving our Capture the Flag online: a guide to remote security training

CircleCI

But despite the challenges, we managed to put together a successful CTF competition — entirely online. And while security training is incredibly important for engineers at every company, the team-building events this year were more important than ever. Recreating ad-hoc team-building remotely. 60 minutes).

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Speeding Up the Enterprise: Virtual Squads at InVision

LaunchDarkly

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

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

Honeycomb

Alignment is your most important deliverable Most execs — at least the good ones — spend a lot of time on something that can be completely invisible to their teams: building alignment at the executive level. Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills.