Tom Tunguz

JUNE 1, 2023

Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Engineering 25% 40% 10% Overall - - 13% See assumptions here 1 This thought experiment highlights a few ideas to validate : AI initiatives focused on cost-reduction should start with engineering.

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The Daily Egg

JANUARY 12, 2021

Before modern and more intuitive website builders, coders and software engineers had to spend hours designing web pages, adding long […]. You followed the recipe perfectly and viola! Somehow, everything aligned. When it comes to building a website, it can work the same way.

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2020

I am currently a Software Engineer at FastSpring. The post Employee Spotlight: Lucas Salisbury, Software Engineer, and Innovative Chef appeared first on FastSpring. FastSpring’s Employee Spotlight is a Q&A series that features the hardworking, intelligent, and fun people that make FastSpring great.

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Infinicept

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan joined WebEx as one of the first several software engineers. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. billion, and Yuan continued with the company as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering.

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TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. Rapid turnover, especially of senior or “A” developers. Developers aren’t aware of the progress of the current dev cycle, or even what’s in it. The last 10% takes the other half.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances. I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe data and software engineering practices converge.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 4, 2022

Today, top grandmasters spar with supercomputer-powered chess engines to improve their play. Those sentiments echo in the articles about the end of software engineering that popped up after the Copilot launch. Many articles were written twenty years ago about the potential demise of the human chessplayer. They have it wrong.

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Agile Payments

MAY 5, 2020

How to Start Your Career as a Software Engineer in a SAAS Company.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Data teams are becoming software engineering teams. I learned a tremendous amount about the way modern data teams, who leverage software engineering disciplines, operate. The video is here. For Philip, leading the data team is about focusing on the data products that drive meaningful value to the company.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In the past, software engineering teams and data teams haven’t collaborated, but data pipelines & AI endpoints rapidly becoming essential parts of software, they now work together much more closely. AI is changing the structure of data teams.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 5, 2019

But I had forgotten about it until I listened to the author on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Earlier this year, I read Algorithms to Live By, a book that explains how to use insights from computer science in daily life. One of the rules is the 37% rule. It’s an important rule because it’s broadly applicable.

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Infinicept

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or Remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Head of GTM at Togai Sales Enablement 2.0 – Elevate Rep Performance with Divanshu Goyal, Sales at GTM Buddy Common scaling pains for SaaS businesses and how to overcome them.

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Infinicept

OCTOBER 9, 2021

We focus on mission critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.

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Zuora

JULY 27, 2023

There’s nothing else in life that’s quite like going from expert youth to […] The post Making a global impact as an early career software engineer appeared first on Zuora. Starting your career is an intense transition.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2018

It struck me that most of these interviews were so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. Most interviews are so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. At Intercom, the interview process is different.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Vention is the premier global leader in software engineering, synonymous with technology designed for scale and the common denominator behind the world’s most successful tech-empowered enterprises, industry innovators, and startups.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That’s to say nothing of the PreCambrian explosion in the number of software engineers who used to number in the hundreds of thousands but today tally in the many millions, most of whom gravitate to the terminal already.

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Zuora

OCTOBER 28, 2019

by Pilar Pickering, Senior Software Engineer and Sarah Shaffer, Employer Brand Marketing Intern Meet Pilar. The post Software Engineer Turned International Traveler appeared first on Zuora. Pilar joined Zuora back in […].

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 28, 2018

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” is a mantra I picked up and adopted at some point in high school and carried through to my first job as a software engineer. Despite the fact that’s we’ve not yet finished May, I’m convinced Why We Sleep is the most important book I’ll have read this year.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Patrick is an investor on Redpoint’s Early team and previously spent time as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Travis is Head of Founder Experience at Redpoint and was formerly SVP of Global Sales at Optimizely and VP of Platform Sales at Salesforce. How do you think about hiring?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations.

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SaaS Metrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Software engineering is an important field that has seen a rapid evolution over the past few years. In particular, the concept of remote working has become increasingly prominent in this area, allowing software engineers to work from anywhere in the world.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2018

OpenShift provides a modern development environment for software engineers. IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat reshapes the software ecosystem overnight. The New Infrastructure is the fastest growing, doubling year over year. I regard Red Hat’s OpenShift platform as the leader in enterprise platform-as-a-service.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

This approach to managing your localization efforts on an ongoing basis is referred to as continuous localization – much akin to continuous integration , which is a practice in software engineering where developers merge their work into a single code repository on a continuous basis, helping to enforce version control and create a single source of (..)

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, once there are enough infrastructure and consumer companies to serve, software businesses pop up, in this case to serve DAOs. Data companies continue to achieve astronomical growth.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And they've been ignored by most software engineers for a long time. Isn't it strange that the very people who build amazing software completely ignore other novel software that helps them secure their creations? Why do software engineers not like vulnerability scanning tools? Not the testing team.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

No longer are they just post-analysis teams; they are now becoming software engineering teams that use data to build products. Title: The Evolution of Data Teams and Data Security Over the past few years, we’ve seen a significant change in the way data teams operate. This shift has brought with it a new reality for data security.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 8, 2024

Now, before we jump to the idea that software engineers will soon be relics of the past, let’s hit pause. They’re changing the game on how engineers work and the kinds of projects they dive into. Let’s peel back the layers on what low-code and no-code tech means for the software engineering world.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2019

Software engineering isn’t just about the cold logic of computers. Complexity is the enemy of our ability to move quickly. We will trade off performance, financial cost, and perfect abstraction in order to keep a solution simple. Work with positivity, pride and love.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . This management overconfidence is a trap I see many others falling into, but it can often be avoided by following a few of the steps below. Always ask for advice. The same is true for managing people.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73 Software engineers were the first to benefit with Copilot. Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Sales Managers 0.4

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2019

Here are Top 6 cloud stories for this week: #1: “How Big Tech Companies Like Google and Facebook Set Salaries For Software Engineers”. #2: 3: “The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Built a Fortune on Free Software”. #4: Want to know the top stories 100,000 other Cloud and SaaS enthusiasts are reading? Well, now we finally know!

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2024

Devin AI, the world’s first AI software engineer aka agent , authors software in place of a human. Copilots, like Github’s, complete their humans’ sentences in code, an AI pair programmer. Copilots have proven to increase productivity by 50-75% according to data points from Microsoft & ServiceNow.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Some employees only require a few short hours of training, while others may require days or even months, especially where tech boot camps are involved for job functions like software engineering, data science, and machine learning. . Stage 3: Employee Development.

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