The life and ramblings of Canada's most innovative Technology leader
Are developers getting smarter or dumber? I personally didn’t start coding because it was a huge passion. I wanted to go down the road of building super cool things for NASA (or CSA – the Canadian Space Agency) and while
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The best decisions I’ve made in my career I have always had a bit of an edge, something super competitive in me that drove me to be better than my self of yesterday. It’s an unrelenting hunger that I use
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Should your startup take VC money? Speaking with fellow investors, we often chat about whether we are always doing the right thing by investing in the businesses we do. It’s not that we do or don’t believe in the specific
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Gaining the experience to build data, ETL, ML and AI pipelines in the real world For years and years, I have been progressively building my way up to this. From the times early in my career where I was simply
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Growing a tech startup 30 employees in less than one year This is something that I have now done many times over in my personal career, being a very early engineer at many places that required my expertise, not only
Read more2017 was the year of #MeToo – let’s keep the momentum going #HappyInternationalWomensDay The employees surveyed at the companies on this list had a minimum 90 per cent positive response to the statement “I am treated fairly regardless of my
Read moreMerely one week after my post about incubators and accelerators, DMZ named best in the world! In the seven years the DMZ has been running, they have supported 317 startups that have raised $357 million and created almost 4,000 jobs.
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The state of parental (and paternity) leave in Canada (vs other countries) I have been asked to write an editorial by my very good friend Tihomir Bajić, VP #Engineering at LTSE, who himself is a father of three (3) wonderful
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Good news for #Canada tech – more developers and software engineers coming our way “We have to do better for our girls,” says Flanagan. “Through access to coding in schools and workshops and by promoting female role models, we can
Read moreCrazy! China payment gateways making their way to Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver (areas) – makes sense, look at the demographics here. “With many CF shopping centres designated as official tourist destinations, tourism continues to play a big role in our
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