Honeycomb

MARCH 4, 2021

This is the second time we’ve grown an executive from within. One year ago, I wrote a similar post welcoming Emily Nakashima to her new role as VP of Engineering. At Honeycomb, it’s important to me that we promote people and hire from within, and that we be transparent about what we choose to reward as an organization.

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Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

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. It’s more writing and less talking,” Shoup says.

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Cloudera

JUNE 5, 2023

Cloudera VP of Engineering and NiFi founder Joe Witt, joined by principal committers Mark Payne and Matt Gillman, addressed the global community via a virtual event dubbed “ Meet the Committers.” Here at Cloudera we are excited to host future events for NiFi developers, so stay tuned to find out what’s next.

Technical Review 74

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

The diagram below is one effort to identify more granular labels that I assembled for an internal meeting. Business stakeholders then get handed a clearer tradeoff: do we invest now, or do we decide meeting our 99.9% Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You usually only have one VP of engineering,” Nightingale says.

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Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

If your startup is growing, you’re hiring. And if you’re hiring senior-level talent, you probably need an outside recruiter. Few in-house recruiters have the expertise or network that a professional, third-party recruiter offers. However, there’s good news: The right recruiter does much more than hire someone.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Take a tour in our video gallery, where you’ll find a wealth of positive feedback from sponsors, attendees and speakers: Video. . Get your tickets here and let’s meet at the conference! To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Got interested?

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Xicom

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Also, with the increasing government initiatives in support of this emerging trend, more global players are expected to enter the market, making it crucial to hire mobile app developers with proven and experienced skill sets. In the present scenario, the smart travelling market is moderately concentrated.

Travel 52

Travel Mobile Part-Time VPE Transportation 52

Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

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. She splits her time between writing, speaking, teaching, helping teams, and working with her own team at ePlan Services Inc. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Everyone was looking for real-time insights by analyzing what is going on currently within their businesses and taking corrective action pro-actively. Cloudera DataFlow (CDF), the industry’s leading real-time streaming data platform, was truly at the frontlines helping our customers find clarity with their data during these dark times.

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Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. 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).

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Battery Ventures

MARCH 1, 2019

I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sudhir Menon will lead our Engineering and Support teams as our new Chief Product Officer. He has been with Cloudera since early 2020, serving as VP of Engineering – Platforms and then as Corporate VP Hybrid Cloud. This will be a very engaging conversation and I hope you will attend.

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Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

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. Start by building a network and a brand.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“We find ourselves in an extremely good place to have the right solution that meets the market needs.” They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Lara: Just to like center yourself before each and every person you need to meet with, just to remember, like, right, I need to support them in these variety of ways. Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book? I was finding myself in coaching call after coaching call talking about the same challenges.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

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.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. You probably won’t have a lot of time, so stay focused on the big picture. It’s also often best if you approach your meeting as a conversation, rather than a presentation with slides, but your allies will know the best approach for your specific situation.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. You probably won’t have a lot of time, so stay focused on the big picture. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering.

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Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all. That’s insane. Djimy Charles.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Watch the full panel discussion below. Thank you both so much for joining us today.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And let’s not forget those mandatory, yet pointless meetings scheduled just for the sake of it. And what’s worse is that I’ve found most of these meetings to have no agendas at all.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. I am VP of Engineering over there.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

They’re well attended by folks from all different parts of the org (in our company of ~100 people, usually at least 60 show up), and even for roles not directly associated with product development, we’ve added “go to a demo day” to our onboarding plans for new hires. . Hit me up on Twitter or find me in our Pollinators Slack.

Part-Time VPE 69

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The system is supposed to be reliable if its SLIs continuously meet SLOs. Otherwise, a provider will pay some kind of penalty.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

But for engineering and team leaders without an ML background, this can also feel overwhelming and intimidating. I regularly meet smart, successful, highly competent and normally very confident leaders who struggle to navigate a constructive or effective conversation on ML — even though some of them lead teams that engineer it.

Artificial Inteligence 363

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. I had one full-time employee in one part-time employee and we did staff augmentation. Eric: I joined as an engineer.

Engineering 75

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Netlify

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I’ve been a fan of Ire’s for some time. She is the COO and VP of Engineering at a crypto currency exchange based in Nigeria. But I find it hard to pick out just a few of them as the quality of the speakers and their talks was, once again, rather wonderful. Ire Aderinokun of BuyCoins.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

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Netlify

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Suddenly we were in multiple meetings, writing proposals, doing research on alternatives, and considering how this would fold into our existing systems — none of which were helping us build out and validate this idea. In a conversation with Dalia Havens , our VP of Engineering, we dug into the problem.

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. After that, you’ll often see the optimizing phase—the top part of the S-curve, where it flattens out and growth is slower. “In

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Stackery

MAY 9, 2019

Impostors syndrome: that perennial juggling act between vocational ambition and that sneaking suspicion that you’ll arrive at work on a Wednesday only to find your desk sold for parts, the room darkened, and a semicircle of coworkers with flashlights under their chins, serving you with a notarized document that reads “the jig is up”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founder and CEO David Zamir is not actually an Uber alum, but one of his first employees, VP of Engineering Oliver Nicholas, is an early Uber engineer, and the company has also found a lot of traction of Uber drivers this year, after many found themselves out of work after the chilling effect that the pandemic had on ridesharing.

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