“Logz.io Observability IQ Assistant helps us to find the root cause of the issues faster, and it reduces a lot of the manual processes that we were doing before.”That’s the assessment of Senior DevOps Engineer and Logz.io user Armin Morattab when discussing the impact of AI on his day-to-day job.He dives deep on AI, observability, and strategies for improving workflows with … [Read more...] about Supercharging Engineer Productivity with Real World AI
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Ex-Security Engineer Jailed 3 Years for $12.3 Million Crypto Exchange Thefts
Apr 13, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Regulatory Compliance A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of computer fraud in December 2023 following his … [Read more...] about Ex-Security Engineer Jailed 3 Years for $12.3 Million Crypto Exchange Thefts
Women in tech: Diana Todea shares her career journey to becoming a site reliability engineer
After completing a degree in political philosophy, Diana Todea pivoted to a role in IT customer service. While it seems like a big leap, it made sense for her. She comes from a family of engineers. “Asking questions is a part of who I am,” she says. “I’m an engineer at heart, I like seeing how things are constructed.”Diana started her tech career in her home country of Romania … [Read more...] about Women in tech: Diana Todea shares her career journey to becoming a site reliability engineer
Women in tech: How Angela Chuang’s childhood sparked her dream of becoming a software engineer
As a young girl, Angela Chuang accompanied her father to the bookstore where they would browse books on software engineering together. He started his own business in software engineering and served as an inspiration to her. Later, she followed in his footsteps and became a software engineer herself. “I admire his self-motivation and diligence, which make him a role model in my … [Read more...] about Women in tech: How Angela Chuang’s childhood sparked her dream of becoming a software engineer
Women in Tech: Stephanie Harris explains how she switched careers from musician to software engineer
Stephanie Harris has always had an interest in computers, but her initial career path started out in a different direction. Now, she’s a Senior Software Engineer at Elastic. Since she was young, Stephanie says she’s always had the ability to take confusing concepts and make them “make sense,” a skill that helped her on her winding path which eventually led her to Elastic. While … [Read more...] about Women in Tech: Stephanie Harris explains how she switched careers from musician to software engineer
Platform Engineer: DevOps Evolution or a Fancy Rename?
Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner recently featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE?As a veteran of the PaaS (Platform as a Service) discipline about a decade ago, and a DevOps … [Read more...] about Platform Engineer: DevOps Evolution or a Fancy Rename?
Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking ‘Vault 7’ Hacking Secrets to Wikileaks
Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. The 33-year-old engineer had been charged in June 2018 with unauthorized disclosure of classified information and theft of classified material. Schulte also faces a separate trial on … [Read more...] about Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking ‘Vault 7’ Hacking Secrets to Wikileaks
5 Questions with Jennifer Wong, Engineer Manager
The year 2021 was a big one for Jennifer Wong: It marked the first full year she was in a new role, at a new company, in a new industry. Not only that, it was her first official management role too. After years of working as an engineer, Jenn decided it was time to lean into her potential as a leader and accepted an engineering manager position at CrowdStrike. Q. In your … [Read more...] about 5 Questions with Jennifer Wong, Engineer Manager
5 Questions with Sorabh Lall, Senior Engineer
Cybersecurity is all about anomalies — and perhaps no one can prove that point better than Sorabh Lall. As a senior engineer with a background in cybersecurity, his skills and experience are in hot demand across the industry — so what made him want to come to CrowdStrike? In our latest installment of 5 Questions, we sit down with Sorabh to learn more about his journey into the … [Read more...] about 5 Questions with Sorabh Lall, Senior Engineer
5 Questions with Morgan Maxwell, Cloud Engineer
At CrowdStrike, we sometimes like to say, “There’s data, big data and CrowdStrike data,” by which we mean our engineers work with a volume and scale of data that is totally unmatched in the tech world. Cloud Engineer Morgan Maxwell learned as much firsthand, when she joined four and a half years ago. Since then, she’s come to embrace the volume of data, the scale of our cloud … [Read more...] about 5 Questions with Morgan Maxwell, Cloud Engineer