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Diversify Tech #287
Connecting underrepresented folks in tech with career opportunities
Naya Moss
April 30, 2024
Hi! Welcome to Diversify Tech's Professional Edition. This newsletter is for underrepresented people in tech; specifically curated for mid-senior level folks. Every Tuesday, we share jobs, events, and other career opportunities.
In this week's edition,
💼 University of California Merced and Basta are hiring
⭐️ This week's spotlight is on Danielle Johnson
👩💻 Angie Jones gives advice on how to navigate tech as a woman
JOBS
Opportunities from our hiring partners
Engineering
Senior DevOps Engineer, Patriot Software, Remote - US, $130,000 - $155,000
Data
Business Intelligence Analyst (Hybrid), University of California Merced, Merced, CA, $75,200- $138,400
Product
Senior Product Manager, Basta, NYC preferred; ability to commute to NYC regularly, i.e. 2-4x/month, required, $120,000 - $160,000
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SPOTLIGHT
Meet Danielle Johnson, a web developer and indie hacker. She earned first-class honors in Computer Science from the University of South Wales. After working many years as a Software Developer for the UK Government, she started a web development agency Squarecat.io with her partner where they specializing in building prototypes and MVPs.
She and her partner went on to create numerous indie products. These include Leave Me Alone, a privacy-centric service that simplifies unsubscribing from unwanted emails, and Ellie, an AI email assistant that writes in your style. Their most recent product, StartKit.AI, is an AI boilerplate that provides everything you need to build a comprehensive AI tool.
Follow Danielle on Twitter or LinkedIn. Learn more about her startups at LeaveMeAlone.com, TryEllie.com, and StartKit.AI.
EVENTS
Have a free or low-cost tech event to share in our newsletter? Add it here!
SPEAK
Jul 26 - 27 SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024. Apply by May 10.
Jun 13 Conf42.com Observability 2024. Apply by May 13.
Jul 19 - 20 Security BSides Albuquerque. Apply by May 15.
Jul 24 KCD Lima Peru 2024. Apply by May 15.
Sep 24 hayaData 2024. Apply by May 18.
Have a CFP to share in our newsletter? Add it here!
RESOURCES
👩💻 How to Navigate Tech as a Woman by Angie Jones
🤔 Saying No to what I feel I should do
🧮 9 Things You Didn't Know About Decentralized Identifiers
💡Do we consider git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
💻 Inside Marketing Design at Linear: Designing the 'gold standard' for landing pages
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NEWS
Resilient Coders received a $2.5 MILLION donation from Mackenzie Scott
Women Who Code DC chapter is now Women and Gender eXpansive Coders DC. Follow their Meetup page for upcoming events.
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred for Deceiving Students and Hiding Loan Costs
Bree Hall is now a developer advocate at HubSpot
Kylie Robison is joining Verge as a senior tech reporter
Kedasha completed her Certificate on Applied Machine Learning and AI
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