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Diversify Tech #410
Connecting underrepresented people in tech to career opportunities
Veni Kunche
October 27, 2026
Hi! Welcome to Diversify Tech's Professional Edition. This newsletter is for underrepresented people in tech in the U.S.; specifically curated for mid-senior level folks. Every Tuesday, we share jobs, events, and other career opportunities.
In this week's issue,
💼 Schoolhouse is looking for Software Engineers
📆 REFACTR.TECH is hosting Bytes & Bites: Women in Tech Week Edition in Atlanta
⭐️ Sumaya Shakir lays out a plan for handling a layoff
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Veni Kunche
JOBS
✅ = Hiring partners who have passed our vetting process
From our job board
✅ Software Engineer, Schoolhouse, Remote - Anywhere, $167,000-$207,000
✅ Tech Lead — Backend & Platform, Basta, Remote - Remote eligible, ability to travel to NYC 4–6 times/year required, $180,000-$220,000
✅ Head of Technology, Sanctuary Computer, Hybrid - New York, NY, $228,800-$308,800
✅ Senior Project Manager, Business Applications & Solutions, Open Space Institute, Inc., Hybrid - New York, NY, $115,000-$120,000
✅ Mid-Level Software Engineer, Perpay, Philadelphia, PA, USA, $110,000-$150,000.
✅ Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack/Frontend/Backend, Perpay, Philadelphia, PA, USA, $160,000-$220,000.
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EVENTS
Oct 29 Responsible Tech Summit 2026. From Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era, New York
Oct 30 Bytes & Bites: Women in Tech Week Edition, Atlanta, GA
Nov 2 - Oct 4 AI DevCon NYC, Brooklyn, NY; Online
Nov 2 OSA CON 2026, San Francisco; Online
Nov 4 - 5 Airflow Summit, Online
Nov 5 Is AI Inevitable? Insight from Hypecel vs. Technoskepticist Perspectives, Michigan/Online
Nov 6 - 12 Global Hack Week: Builders Week, Online
Nov 9 - 10 LeadDev Berlin 2026, Berlin
Nov 9 - 10 Gerrit User Summit 2026, Sunnyvale, CA
Nov 11 The Cost of Good Enough, Atlanta
Nov 16 - 19 Agile Testing Days 2026, Potsdam, Germany + Online
Nov 24 IndyPy, Online
Have a free or low-cost tech event to share in our newsletter? Add it here!
SPEAK
Apr 16 Digital Crafts Day in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. Apply by Oct 31.
Apr 1 - 4 SCaLE in Pasadena, CA. Apply by Nov 1.
Apr 1 - 4 Southern California Linux Expo SCaLE USA 2027 in Pasadena, CA. Apply by Nov 1.
Jun 14 - 16 ILA Women and Leadership Conference USA 2027 in St. Paul, MN. Apply by Nov 13.
Mar 8 - 12 FABCON & SQLCON United States 2027 in Atlanta, GA. Apply by Nov 22.
Feb 11 - Dec 16 Cloud Lunch and Learn Weekly Sessions 26 (Virtual). Apply by Dec 16.
Apr 1 - 2 PlanetNix 2027 in Pasadena, CA. Apply by Dec 23.
Jul 13 - Sep 14 Power Summit-2027 (Virtual). Apply by Dec 31.
Mar 20 BSides Rocket City United States 2027 in Huntsville, AL. Apply by Dec 31.
Jul 13 - 14 Power Summit-2027 (Virtual). Apply by Jan 1.
Apr 27 - 28 DevOpsDays Raleigh United States 2027 in Raleigh, NC. Apply by Jan 1.
Jun 11 PG DATA United States 2027 in Chicago, IL. Apply by Jan 11.
Mar 20 Day of Data Richmond United States 2027 in Richmond, VA. Apply by Jan 15.
Nov 12 - 13 Ubuntu Summit 26.10 (Virtual).
Nov 24 - 27 BIG DATA CONFERENCE EUROPE 2026 in Online & Lithuana.
Dec 7 - 10 ARCHCONF '26 in Clearwater, FL.
Have a CFP to share in our newsletter? Add it here!
RESOURCES
Laid off? Your first two weeks by Sumaya Shakir: A calm, sequenced plan for the days after a layoff: what to do in the first 24 hours, the first 72 hours, and the rest of the first two weeks, with a runway worksheet, a search decision tree, and words you can use.
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI: Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
Random Forest Explained Simply: Why 100 Trees Are Smarter Than One by Dr. Hannah Volk-Jesussek: In this video you’ll learn how random sampling and random feature selection produce very different trees, how the forest combines them into a single prediction, and how out-of-bag data lets you measure accuracy without sacrificing any of your data.
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security: Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy much easier.