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Diversify Tech #398
Connecting underrepresented people in tech to career opportunities
Veni Kunche
July 28, 2026
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 issue,
💼 Perpay is looking for Mid-Level and Senior Software Engineers in Philadelphia
📆 Ruby for Good conference is in August
⭐️ React Debugging with Performance Tracks by Shruti Kapoor
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Veni Kunche
JOBS
✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process
From our job board
✅ Mid-Level Software Engineer, Perpay, Philadelphia, PA, USA, $110,000-$160,000
✅ Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack/Frontend/Backend, Perpay, Philadelphia, PA, USA, $160,000-$220,000
✅ Senior Manager, Data and Analytics, Basta, New York, NY
✅ Support Specialist, Enterprise Technology , ProPublica, New York, NY, $75,000-$90,000
Vice President, Engineering, Common Sense Media, San Francisco, CA, USA, $175,000-$205,000
From around the web
Sr. Data Engineer, Bloomerang, Remote, US
Data Engineer, Fieldwire, Remote - US
NFL Data Scientist, Swish Analytics, Remote - US
Senior Data Engineer, Grailed , Remote - US
Sr. Product Designer, Benepass, Remote - US
Product Designer (UI/UX) (US), BJAK, Remote
Web Designer & Webflow Developer, Flex, Remote
Product Designer, Hagerty , Remote
Product Designer, Places, Raya, Remote - US
Software Engineer , Ethos Life, Remote US
Mid-Level Backend Engineer, Fieldwire, Remote - US
Senior Software Engineer I, GOAT Group, Remote - US
Software Engineer II, Patient Platform (Backend), Hims & Hers, Remote - US
Sr. Software Engineer, (Web/Mobile), Hims & Hers, Remote - US
Detection Engineer II, Instacart, Remote - US
Software Engineer, Core Software Engineering, MEMX, Remote - US
Software Engineer, Optimized Checkout & Link, Stripe, LLC. , Remote - US
Software Engineer, Ads, Whatnot, Remote - New York, NY
Solutions Support Engineer, Wiz, Inc., Remote - Ireland
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EVENTS
Aug 6 - 7 Civics of Technology Online Conference, Online
Aug 8 Day of Data Albany 2026, Albany, NY
Aug 13 MLflow 3.12 for Agentic AI: PromptOps, Observability & AI Evaluation, Online
Aug 25 Context Is Everything: Building Agents in Copilot That Know Your Work Context, Online
Aug 27 - 28 DrupalCamp Colorado 2026, Denver, CO
Aug 27 - 30 Ruby for Good, Mercersville, MD
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SPEAK
Aug 7 - 8 BSides Brighton-2026 in United Kingdom. Apply by Jul 31.
Nov 5 DynamicsCon Regional: Texas-2026 in Houston, TX. Apply by Aug 1.
Sep 19 RedacteCON 2026 in Grand Junction, CO. Apply by Aug 18.
Sep 10 Conf42 Observability 2026 (Virtual). Apply by Aug 27.
Sep 24 Conf42 AI Agents 2026 (Virtual). Apply by Sep 10.
Oct 2 - 3 BSides Bloomington 2026 in Bloomington, IN. Apply by Sep 15.
Oct 29 Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2026 (Virtual). Apply by Sep 28.
Sep 16 - 17 DC State of the Stack 2026 in Washington, DC.
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RESOURCES & ARTICLES
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: Security researchers weigh in on the recent event where Open AI’s model hacked Hugging Face. Cybersecurity veteran Jake Williams says “One man’s ‘the model escaped the sandbox’ is another man’s ‘you failed to build the sandbox correctly, so of course it escaped’”
How to Diagnose Production Bugs When You Can't Reproduce Them Locally by Manish Shivanandhan: Production-only bugs can be investigated systematically. In this article, you'll learn how to approach these issues using logs, metrics, distributed tracing, and environment analysis.
React Debugging with Performance Tracks by Shruti Kapoor: Shruti shows how to use React Profiler and the new Performance Tracks in React DevTools to hunt down expensive re-renders, understand why components are rendering, and fix the actual problems instead of guessing.
The Cameras Know Your Name and Pattern of Life: But are They Security or Surveillance State? Flock put a hundred thousand license-plate readers on American streets, built an AI that turns your plate into your whole life, and sold the whole thing as fighting crime. Leah pulled the police logs and followed the money. It is worse than we even think, and closer to home.
12 System Design Interview Patterns You Need to Know (With Real Examples) by Mai: A practical breakdown of the 12 most common system design interview patterns — from ticketing systems to collaborative editing — with the core engineering challenge behind each one.
Hidden Figures of Python: Juanita Gomez: Juanita is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, where her research focuses on improving the security of scientific open source software in collaboration with the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at UCSC.
COMMUNITY CORNER
Elvis Kwabena Asare Nkrumah, a data scientist and recent Computer Science and Statistics graduate from the University of Ghana, would like to attend the Deep Learning Indaba 2026 conference in Lagos, Nigeria. The Indaba has covered his registration and accommodation. He needs financial support for his travel. Please donate via GoFundMe!
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