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Render raises $4.5M for its DevOps platform

TechCrunch

The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner. million onto its existing seed funding round, bringing total investment into the company to $6.75

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

Moreover, Mala co-leads Delhi Java User Group and Women Who Code Delhi, she drives initiatives for diversity advocacy for Women in Technology. 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. LinkedIn. .

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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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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

There’s the group of folks that are scared because of the amount of responsibility resting on their shoulders. They know that they’re responsible for people’s careers and livelihoods and like business objectives, there’s that kind of grouping of fears. And I see this again in management. It’s hard.

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How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

Gitprime

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. Leila Jana CEO of Sama Group.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills.