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  • Women In Tech And Epam Partner To Advance Women In The Future Of Work

     NEW YORK, FEB 5, 2021 – Women in Tech is thrilled to announce its Silver partnership with EPAM Systems,

     Inc., a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. With more than 50,000 members worldwide, they’re accelerating the fight to close the gender gap and empower women by helping them embrace technology.

    Women in Tech and EPAM’s first order of business is to build a talent marketplace on  www.women-in-tech.net, and take to the stage together at the Women in Tech Global Forum in Sharjah, UAE, this coming February.

    Partnering with key industry players, like EPAM, will accelerate change on a global scale regarding how we feel about gender in the workplace. “Women in Tech is extremely proud of how far it has come and is excited about the very real possibilities it can unlock with the help of industry partners,” said Carine de Meyere, CCO of Women in Tech. “With companies like EPAM at our side, not only can Women in Tech give community access to more job opportunities, but also encourage a broader cultural shift in a traditionally male-dominated industry,” adds Ayumi Moore, Founder of Women in Tech.

    EPAM is no stranger to innovation—appearing on Forbes 25 fastest-growing Public Tech Companies list since 2013 and ranked as the top IT services company on Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2019 and 2020. According to Shamilka Samarasinha, Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at EPAM, their aim is to establish a more diverse workforce, share their industry expertise with impactful community initiatives and commit their voice publicly to supporting women in the future of work.

    “There is a lot of focus currently in the technology industry on attracting, retaining and developing female talent, but there is a lot more than can be done,” said Elaina Shekhter, CMO & Head of Strategy at EPAM. “We’re pleased to partner with Women in Tech, a global movement to empower women in STEM. Their mission is very much aligned with EPAM’s core values. Together, we can empower women all over the world and help expand the community of female technology professionals.”

    With the success of their first 24-hr Virtual World Tour and the launch of a talent marketplace, Women in Tech has become the number one destination for women to exchange STEM knowledge, meet new role models and participate in mentoring programs, take master classes, learn about job opportunities and receive online support.

    To find out more about Women in Tech, visit here.

     About Women in Tech

    With 50.000 members and followers in over 70 countries around the globe and growing rapidly, Women in Tech is an international organization with a

    double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. Gender equality is at the centre of our mission, where we aim to empower women and girls with the necessary skills and confidence to succeed in STEM career fields. Through our purpose-led, performance-driven mission that is closely aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we focus on executing our strategy by driving progress and outcomes on four main pillars: Education, Entrepreneurialism, Social Inclusion, and Science and Innovation.

  • DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Sacha Labourey Q&A

    DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Sacha Labourey Q&A

    CloudBees has been active on the acquisition front, picking up Electric Cloud and Rollout in recent months: Are we going to be talking about other deals by the time DevOps World Lisbon rolls around in December?

    “We’re always actively looking at deals that make sense. To be truthful, we’ve set the bar pretty high at the moment. Not only are we focusing hard on executing on those acquisitions, we’re delivering on a vision we’ve laid out for the future in a category we call Software Delivery Management.”

    What are you most looking forward to at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019?

    “Always the same: Meeting with great people, hearing about the great innovations in the Jenkins and Jenkins X community, and really, checking out everything all these talented companies are doing. The amount of creativity and innovation we see year after year at DevOps World | Jenkins World is truly amazing.”

    How is CloudBees addressing gender and diversity at this year’s event?

    “We have supported diversity at DevOps World | Jenkins World for a very long time. We’ve tried to encourage diversity in our recruitment of speakers and in our acceptance of them. Specific to this year’s conference, on the Wednesday of the conference week (August 14), CloudBees is sponsoring a Women In Tech mixer, as part of the conference activities. On Thursday, August 15, we’re sponsoring a Diversity and Inclusion luncheon. At the luncheon, a panel of speakers tackle the topic Connecting Diversity and Inclusion with Business Outcomes.

    Outside of DevOps World | Jenkins World, here are some other ways we’ve been trying to be inclusive and supportive of diversity:

    • CloudBees encourages diversity in our hiring. Our industry is heavily white male, but we are committed to achieving more diversity within the company. We’ve been benchmarking ourselves against the industry to see how we rank, relative to our peers. We are not satisfied with the results. We employ highly capable transgender, minority and culturally diverse people. We will continue to make this a priority.
    • We are currently a customer of Power to Fly and are working with them to help attract more women into technical roles. We hosted a Women in Tech event in conjunction with Power to Fly in our Raleigh office on June 25.
    • We have actively supported women in DevOps (as evidenced by the blog series on our website about Women in DevOps). We have had specific breakouts at company meetings and at past DevOps World conferences for Women in Tech.
    • We have supported an internal team of women who applied to speak at the Grace Hopper conference. We are very proud that two have been accepted.
    • Our Customer Advisory Board has increased female representation from two to six (out of about 30 total members).

    As positive as this is, it’s not enough and we are not satisfied with our gains in diversity. We continue to focus on this important area.”

    How has the evolution of DevOps World mirrored CloudBees’ growth?

    “We’ve really witnessed it all since 2010 and before. We’ve been part of the first steps of CI, the move to the right and the quest for ever-increasing automation. We’ve seen the fantastic chain reaction where cloud has enabled organizations to do so much more in DevOps and DevOps has returned the favor, opening up so many opportunities for cloud. We are really witnessing the birth of a new tech era. It is a unique privilege for CloudBees to be part of that small group of change agents!”

    One of the sessions talks about how to become a “DevOps superhero.” What is your personal DevOps superpower? 

    “That’s easy: open source. After years in the JBoss community, at Red Hat and now at CloudBees, where we are the leads on the Jenkins and Jenkins X projects, I still love open source. It is part of our DNA here at CloudBees. There is so much innovation going on in the open source communities, and the developers who are involved are so passionate about what they do. I do think, for the most part, open source developers are among the best in the developer community. They are also inclusive and really have a desire to impact the world.”

    — Heidi Gilmore

  • SREs: The Happiest – and Highest Paid – in the Industry

    SREs: The Happiest – and Highest Paid – in the Industry

    According to the 2019 StackOverflow survey completed by 90,000 developers around the world, whether you are already a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or thinking about becoming one, looks like you are onto something.

    SREs, also called DevOps specialists, are a pretty unique type of talent; one that has knowledge in both software development and system infrastructure. And because the world of infrastructure is so vast, these professionals also need to juggle networking, security, system administration, hardware and anything else that could make an infrastructure unstable or down (yes, I am looking at you, A/C). That makes any day at work unique.

    SREs, for the most part, are in charge of making sure that your favorite website apps are loading, and fast. Their work is not customer-facing but highly critical. According to Gartner, the average cost of IT downtime is going anywhere from $5,600 per minute to—when you work for Amazon—$2 million for every minute down.

    That’s one of the reasons why SREs are among the highest paid in the industry, well, right behind their fellow managers! They also rank among the ones with the most coding experience—it takes time and hard work to get there.

    And all of this leads to happiness! With an interesting job and high pay, SREs satisfaction is among the highest in the industry, and they rank in the top three of the ones not actively looking for a job. SRE for a day, SRE forever!

    But here’s the problem: There aren’t a lot of SREs out there and hardly any computer science programs cover the topic. A recent tweet from Target software engineer Jessica Schalz illustrates the point very well:

    As TechRepublic reported, these professionals are among the most wanted in the tech industry and 33% of IT leaders report having a hard time hiring profiles with these skills. A potential reason for this lack of talent might come from the fact that the profession is failing at attracting about half of our population: women. SREs are 30 times more likely to be men than women. Training non-bearded SRE talent is possible. The Holberton School, a coding school I co-founded where 40% of the students are women, is leading a lot of students to be hired as SREs.

    And the good news is that we are not alone: CloudFoundry and Infrastructure Masons are also taking action to move the needle. And industry leaders such as Tammy Bütow and Abby Kearns are showing the way.

    As former software architect Eduards Sizovs pegged it: Great developers are raised, not hired. The industry is spending tons of money and energy and trying to attract the best talent when it would often be more efficient to take juniors that can grow to their need.

    “There is a new generation of developers of all races, genders, backgrounds coming up who can do these jobs,” said Max Johnson, DevOps engineer at Pypestream. “Businesses should widen their hiring scope and consider non-traditional sources that train as good, if not better, talent and coach them further for these highly skilled jobs.”

    LinkedIn is among the first to understand the value of investing in people—so it’s probably not a coincidence that it’s among the best places to work in the U.S. From an internal, employee-led perspective, the company has developed a number of in-house programs for both career and technical development. For example, its Women in Tech (WIT) organization leads a number of programs to connect, inspire and grow women technologists. From an external standpoint, with its REACH engineering apprenticeship program, LinkedIn is redefining the way it identifies, recruits and trains talent. REACH is an apprenticeship program that creates opportunity for every individual with the passion and potential to either develop or restart their career in engineering. The program guides participants through various levels of technical roles at the company, with the end goal being that each individual builds their skill set and gains the experience needed to become an engineer.

    “Reinventing our approach to recruiting and developing junior talent has been a great way to expand our funnel and has brought forward more diverse perspectives, forming a more robust team,” said Casey Brown, senior manager, SRE at LinkedIn and core team member of the REACH program.

    As you have probably understood, SREs are a niche talent (43% of them even picked Vim as their favorite editor). But as I recently tweeted, they are ruling the world, and more of them are needed. Let’s get creative to train and hire more of these amazing professionals!

    — Sylvain Kalache

  • New Faces Of Devops

    New Faces Of Devops

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