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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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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. 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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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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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone).

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering). Yet she’s worked with a lot of engineering leaders where that internal drive—and the resulting fulfillment—weren’t the case.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Like it’s exciting to have this new opportunity, new sets of skills to develop, but also, it’s a lot of responsibility, and people get no training. I’ve never learned, been formally trained in these skills. And that was the idea that oftentimes we take these roles and we get no training. Lara: Yeah.