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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first. How It Works Each title has certain skill requirements, which are grouped into skill sets. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed. Strategic Technical Advisor.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO

The training program offers a collaborative learning environment as well as individualized support through mentors, tutors, mental health support, and affinity groups. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer. Ada’s List.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. In other words, the goal is to understand an organization from the inside so well that the group can engage in constructive criticism. This is nothing new.

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Sustainable Software Engineering Through the Lens of Environmental

Xebia

Did you know that sustainable software engineering is a topic we frequently discuss and engage with? However, our conversations predominantly revolve around the economic dimension, such as optimizing costs in cloud computing, or the technical dimension, particularly when addressing code maintainability. The best part?

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Apiumhub among top IT industry leaders in Code Europe event

Apiumhub

His main work is software development consulting, which combines actually writing code with advising clients on how to do that better. He has spoken at many conferences, user groups, etc., His current technical expertise focuses on integration platform implementations, Azure DevOps, and Cloud Solution Architectures.