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Top 20 Female Speakers in Software Development Events

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Initiatives such as mentorship programs, diverse speaker panels, and safe spaces for sharing ideas can help foster confidence and encourage women to share their expertise more freely. These programs may offer mentorship, networking opportunities, and support to increase visibility and confidence among women in the tech community.

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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.” Many leaders grapple with how to balance allowing team members to contribute to projects, alongside the mentorship and training of other team members who come alongside. Integrate mentorship into regular contributions.

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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

.” Contentstack, which was founded in 2018, was created on the back of fifteen-year-old consulting firm Raw Engineering and Built.io, an app development platform that Raw Engineering launched in 2013. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).

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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. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. After a successful period as VP of Engineering at FreeAgent, Maria recently took up a whole new challenge.

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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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Opportunities for DevSecOps in 2021

Dzone - DevOps

Maturing and expanding threat modeling, standard defenses, Appsec training, and champions program are also strong moves. Your custom code whether developed by staff, consultants, or outsourced. Eric Mizell , VP of Field Engineering at Keyfactor. Sven Delmas , VP of Engineering at LogDNA.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

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Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.