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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. And she has not only been instrumental to Shippo, but also an extremely valuable resource to other engineering leaders in the Version One family. Functional quality. Defects are cheapest to address when found early.

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Do you need data engineering before data science?

Version One Ventures

One thread explored the differences between data science and data engineering. I’ll admit that I was completely unaware of the engineering behind data science when we first launched Insight Data Science back in 2012. You can read about this from Maxime Beauchemin , data engineer at Airbnb). Data Engineering.

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8 of the Hottest Jobs in Information Technology

The Startup Magazine

Becoming a technical support specialist requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a similar field. Some computer programmers apply their skills to database management systems or operating systems. . Each of these components make up the cloud computing architecture. Computer Programmers

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Do You Have The Data Agility Your Business Needs?

YoungUpstarts

New cloud platforms, new databases like Apache Hadoop, and real-time data processing are just some of the modern data capabilities at their disposal. This is significantly more important today than 10 or 15 years ago since companies used to make a strategic database choice once and keep running it for a decade or two.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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How Netskope is changing the way enterprises adopt the cloud

Lightspeed Venture Partners

With these trends as a backdrop, we are in the early innings of a massive redirection of enterprise IT budgets towards new technologies and architectures. To name a few: Ravi Ithal was an early engineer at Palo Alto Networks (PANW), where he architected their database and analytics systems.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. They might do anything !

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