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Diversify Tech #288
Connecting underrepresented folks in tech with career opportunities
Naya Moss
May 07, 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,
💼 Patriot Software is hiring
⭐️ This week's spotlight is on Shailvi Wakhlu
📆 Latinas in Tech Summit is coming up
🚀 Emily Nakashima shares how she become a VP of Engineering
🏆 This month, share our newsletter for a chance to win the book Self-Advocacy: Your Guide to Getting What You Deserve at Work by Shailvi Wakhlu
JOBS
Opportunities from our hiring partners
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
Information Technology
Senior DevOps Engineer, Patriot Software, Remote - US, $130,000 - $155,000
Opportunities found around the web
Please note that these roles have not been vetted by our team! Make sure to do your own research.
UX Designer, Under Armour, Remote, US, $80,092.00 - $110,126.50
User Experience Designer IV, Panasonic Avionics, Irvine, CA, $94,000-$158,000
Salesforce Consultant, Strata Information Group, Remote - US, $90,000 -$125,000
Data Engineer/Analyst Associate, Scholastic, 126,996.00 - 131,800.00, New York, New York
Machine Learning Engineer, Talkspace, New York, NY, $170,000 and $190,000
Software Architect Sr., Panasonic Avionics, Irvine, CA, $128,000 - $215,000
Senior Fullstack Engineer, Carbon, Redwood City, California, $152,000 - $229,000
Manager, Engineering, Panasonic Avionics, Irvine, CA, $126,000 - $211,000
Head of Engineering, Carbon, Redwood City, California, $268,000.00 - $402,000.00
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SPOTLIGHT
Meet Shailvi Wakhlu, founder of Shailvi Ventures LLC. Shailvi is a Data Leader and a Self-Advocacy expert.
She is the former Head of Data & Analytics from Strava and Komodo Health. Her sixteen-year corporate career has included companies such as Salesforce, Fitbit, and a software startup that she co-founded. Now in a fractional data leader capacity, she consults, advises, and invests in early-stage startups. She also runs a popular online course on Data Storytelling.
Shailvi is the author of the best-selling book ‘Self-Advocacy’. She is an international keynote speaker and has close to 100 speaking engagements under her belt. She runs an online course on Self-Advocacy and also offers 1-1 coaching to those looking to grow their career.
Follow Shailvi on LinkedIn or YouTube, to access all the resources she shares regularly. You can learn more about her data and self-advocacy offerings on her website Shailvi.com.
EVENTS
May 8 How to Advance Your Technical Career: The Developer Career Masterplan
May 8 Before the Shift: Navigating New Horizons: Transitioning within Tech
May 15 Learn to Build Your Own AI Apps with Azure Cosmos DB! Part 2
May 16 - 17 Latinas in Tech Summit 2024
May 21 & 22 Next.js Workshop with Ankita Kulkarni (Use code: LEVELUP for 50% off for a limited time)
June 5 Jumpstart Your AI Career with Anne T. Griffin
June 5 DC Tech Hiring Fair
SPEAK
October 29-30 GitHub Universe. 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.
Jun 27 Conf42.com Quantum Computing 2024. Apply by May 27.
RESOURCES
🐍 Building UI with Python's FastUI Library
👀 Make sure you have visibility by Alisa Works
💻 Introduction to FastAPI and Celery by Bhavani Ravi
🚀 On Becoming a VP of Engineering by Emily Nakashima
📋 Creating an Automated Documentation Pipeline in PHP with Autodocs and GitHub Actions
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Tech for Palestine needs volunteers! The hardest roles for to fill are the function leaders and project leaders, so if you have the time and skills to take on one of those roles please do! Volunteer for TFP!
NEWS
Joy Buolamwini, Founder and president of the Algorithmic Justice League, named as one of the Tech Power Players 50
John D. Saunders is celebrating 10 years of successfully running his company, 5Four Digital.
Gift Egwuenu's second LinkedIn Learning course, "Accessible Layout for the Web," is now live.
Heather, a Manager in Solutions Engineering from Okta, resigns after a much delayed promotion and inequitable compensation. More on this story here.
Meta employees published an open letter to management about their lack of support to Palestinian colleagues and the censorship of employee concerns