May 21, 2019 in Business Resources
10 of My Best Tips on How to Start a Tech Apprenticeship Program
If you haven’t yet read the IWSI America report on Modern Apprentices, then I suggest you do. It talks about how to get started with apprenticeship and gives a list of key tasks to tackle. Here’s my list of what…
January 2, 2019 in Business Resources
LaSean Smith Q&A
We recently had a chat with LaSean Smith from Microsoft. We asked him a few questions around the topic of diversity and inclusion and why it’s important to create diverse teams. Q. What can companies do to get more people…
October 24, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 008: Laine Campbell
Laine Campbell is SVP of Engineering at Fastly. Over her 19 year career, she has specialized in distributed and high traffic databases, operations and reliability and building large distributed teams for some of the largest infrastructures in the world. Highlights…
October 23, 2018 in Engineering People Podcast
Engineering People Podcast: Rob Reesor
Rob Reesor is Senior Vice President of Product Development at Planview, Inc., where he is currently responsible for all development and testing of three of Planview’s Work and Resource Management applications.
October 22, 2018 in Engineering People Podcast
Engineering People Podcast: Dmitry Fonarev
Dmitry Fonarev has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise, Application, SaaS and embedded software development, as well as extensive experience with managing multiple on and offshore teams across various product development functions. He is currently SVP of Product…
October 20, 2018 in Engineering People Podcast
Engineering People Podcast: Arun Samuga
Treehouse founder/CEO Ryan Carson interviews Arun Samuga, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Elemica, a digital supply chain company.
October 19, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 007: Isaac Councill
Isaac Councill is the VP Engineering at Oscar Health, where he is responsible for all Software and Site Reliability Engineering teams. Prior to Oscar, he worked on applied computational linguistics at Google and as a Research Scientist at IBM Almaden…
October 15, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 005: Robert Krohn
“Usernames and passwords have to go. We need to replace them with other forms of authentication that are really more universal. We see a future where it’s your voice that is going to be used everywhere you are.”
October 12, 2018 in Engineering People Podcast
The Engineering People Show, Episode 35: Chris McCooey
Treehouse founder and CEO Ryan Carson interviews Chris McCooey about developing engineers, nurturing innovators and creating experiences that delight users.
October 11, 2018 in Engineering People Podcast
The Engineering People Show, Episode 34: Robert Stewart
On today’s episode, Ryan chats with the CTO and Chief Architect at Castlight about his career, engineering-team leadership, machine-learning algorithms and more!
October 8, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 004: Dory Weiss
“The things that I loved about being a teacher and a facilitator, and the ways that I like to think about classroom dynamics, those things translate very well to organizational dynamics”
October 5, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 003: Gary Ogasawara
“Stay as deeply technical for as long as possible. I try to do that today: Write code, read code as much as possible. It gives you a better understanding of the people you’re managing, so you could understand how difficult things are.”