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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

TechCrunch

Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? And accumulate.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

With the technological outlook for the years ahead, these people manage to drive the striking change both within the company and beyond. Often considered a tech guru of the company or the smartest programmer in the room, the title of CTO alone indicates that the company is doing something big with technology. The role of CTO.

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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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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

SoCal CTO

I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. Of course, just because a CTO or VPE is listed doesn’t mean it’s working well. Armed with your networking tool, now it’s time to get it out to all the people you know.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

What had started as a technology gap analysis had turned into more of a venting session about the growing pains he was seeing in his organization. A team’s portfolio has grown larger than the team’s capacity, but bringing new people up to speed (never mind recruiting them in the first place) takes time.

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Scaling Technology and Organizations Together with Randy Shoup

Gitprime

That’s when you hit the first growing pains of scaling, both organizationally and technologically. 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.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

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. And then I saw a presentation, actually about the same time, maybe around 2005-2006.