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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Wijegunawardena recalls that ten or more years ago, when Box was a growing company, it could not spring for the high-end video chat systems for remote engineers, so they used Google Hangouts instead. “We Use high-touch onboarding.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

And Gartner estimates spending on information security and risk management will total $172 billion in 2022, up from $155 billion in 2021 and $137 billion the year prior. “We find ourselves in an extremely good place to have the right solution that meets the market needs.”

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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

Tenable

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

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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. Her preferred coaching method is working side-by-side with testers and teams to help them understand their problems and find good ways to deliver better business value. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez.

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

Apiumhub

Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Dave Farley.

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