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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

TechCrunch

In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Attackers Pounce on Unpatched Vulns, DBIR Says, as Critical Infrastructure Orgs Benefit from CISA’s Alert Program

Tenable

“While the adoption of artificial intelligence to gain access to valuable corporate assets is a concern on the horizon, a failure to patch basic vulnerabilities has threat actors not needing to advance their approach,” Chris Novak, Verizon’s Senior Director of Cybersecurity Consulting said in a statement this week.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. Maria Gutierrez is a VP of Engineering and an excellent example of Scotland’s commitment to employing women in the STEM sector. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez. LinkedIn. 10 – Liz Keogh.

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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

Your custom code whether developed by staff, consultants, or outsourced. Buck Flannigan , VP Global Partners at Fluree : Hyper Automation will continue apace with AIOps, but there is a crucial need to “Trust, but (cryptographically) Verify” the data sets being ingested as part of an overall ML Governance strategy.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Replace waterfall governance policies with Agile governance policies. See the “Replace Waterfall Governance Assumptions” section.). The VP liked what I had to say.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Replace waterfall governance policies with Agile governance policies. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer.