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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I had enough experience at early-stage startups to know that, if the company is successful, you’ll probably do a whole host of things as the company moves through different phases.

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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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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2018

Netflix Tech

Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Netflix Devices Susheel Aroskar , Senior Software Engineer Abstract: Netflix built Zuul Push, a massively scalable push messaging service that handles millions of always-on, persistent connections to proactively push time-sensitive data, like personalized movie recommendations, from the AWS Cloud to devices.

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UK COVID-19 dashboard built using Postgres and Citus for millions of users

The Citus Data

Coronavirus dashboard at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA, formerly Public Health England) is Pouria Hadjibagheri, the Deputy Head of Software Engineering for Data and Web Services. Like everything else in software engineering, it depends on the specifics of a project. The technical and development lead for the GOV.UK

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