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Troy Gould reposted thisTroy Gould reposted thisOur Annual Developer Survey survey is now open! For fifteen years, Stack Overflow has polled our global community on all things software - from their favorite programming languages and tech tools, how they learned to code, levels of satisfaction at work, and how they’re using AI. Plus this year, we’re delving deeper into the evolving landscape of developer salaries and how our users would like to engage on Stack Overflow beyond Q&A. Take our survey and share your thoughts with us here: https://lnkd.in/g9smYzRD
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Troy Gould reposted thisTroy Gould reposted thisHi everyone, I am excited to share that I am once again hiring on my team! We're looking for a Senior Product Manager at Stack Overflow to help us scale the OverflowAPI product portfolio (and launch our next data products). This is a remote role. If you are interested in learning more, please apply directly via the link below and reach out to Tom Harvey (I will be unable to respond to inbound). #hiring #product #productmanager #jobs https://lnkd.in/eynJ48vy
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Troy Gould shared thisAnyone looking for a new role? Justin is a great leader, manager, mentor, and all-round great person.Troy Gould shared thisI am happy to share that we have an opening for a Software Engineer (L3/Senior) position on my team at Twilio. You'll be joining several other backend engineers building out new capabilities that are powering Twilio's next-gen Advanced Communications platform. In addition to being its own standalone product, Conversations API is the foundation for products such as Flex and Frontline. Together, we make key ingredients that drive the success of Twilio's "In and Up" strategy. As a manager, my goal is to create a highly collaborative team, where we support each other to accomplish our team and professional objectives. We actively create safe spaces where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work everyday. If this sounds appealing to you, I would like to encourage you to apply online at https://lnkd.in/gWzTP8n8. Best Wishes, Justin Hopper
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Troy Gould shared thisSix weeks ago I started at Zipwhip with excitement to help build some teams for their new Calgary "office." Things change fast! Soon there will be another tech unicorn hiring in Calgary. Excited for the future with Twilio Inc.Troy Gould shared thisHUGE news! We are thrilled to share that Twilio Inc. agreed to acquire Zipwhip for $850 million. We're combining Twilio's scale and resources with our expertise in the texting space and together, we'll change the way businesses reach their customers.A Big Day for Business Texting: Twilio Agrees to Acquire Zipwhip for $850 MillionA Big Day for Business Texting: Twilio Agrees to Acquire Zipwhip for $850 Million
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Troy Gould liked thisTroy Gould liked thisEvery April during our virtual Stack Overflow meet-up, we get a chance to celebrate our wins and the Stackers who made it all possible. This year, we held in-person meet-ups in New York City, London, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Austin! It was a great opportunity for Stackers to connect, refocus, and prepare together for the big things coming to Stack Overflow and Stack Internal in 2026. Keep up with what's happening at Stack Overflow: https://lnkd.in/ewuP2DrA
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Troy Gould liked thisTroy Gould liked thisHeading to Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas? Please attend my session on Spanner Graph to learn how to build context-aware, enterprise-grade applications that scale and the new capabilities we are launching! You will also hear from industry leaders like Chris James from Yahoo and Deepa Sarasamma from Target about leveraging Spanner Graph for high-precision AI grounding. Reserve your spot here: https://lnkd.in/gt7HVna4 #GoogleCloudNext #SpannerGraph
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Troy Gould liked thisTroy Gould liked thisWhen I joined Twilio from Zipwhip, the mission was clear: to build the most trusted and reliable messaging ecosystem in the world. We’ve officially crossed a milestone that makes that vision a reality. I’m thrilled to share that Twilio is now the only cloud communications provider with direct 10DLC and Toll-Free connections across every major carrier in the US and Canada. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Seeing the carrier expertise we championed at Zipwhip scale to this level at Twilio is incredibly rewarding. We aren't just sending messages; we’re building the infrastructure for the future of customer engagement. Proud of this team and how far we’ve come! https://lnkd.in/gcmAy9asTwilio Becomes the Only Cloud Communications Provider with Direct 10DLC and Toll-Free Connections Across All Major Carriers in the United States and CanadaTwilio Becomes the Only Cloud Communications Provider with Direct 10DLC and Toll-Free Connections Across All Major Carriers in the United States and Canada
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Troy Gould liked thisTroy Gould liked thisThe Slow Ways to Scotland. A 4040 km walk via every national park!! No, not me, my good friend John Scott to mark his 65 year on this planet is taking a 6 month wander. A pleasure to wander a mere 60km over the weekend through my patch of Essex from Ongar to Central London. Sometimes life is definitely about the journey, not the destination!
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Troy Gould reacted on thisTroy Gould reacted on thisHi, folks! I'm sad to report that I've just been laid off (along with a bunch of other folks) from Stack Overflow. 12.8 years! Someone recently asked why I've been at Stack for so long. My reply was simple: I don't like to abandon a job in the middle of a fire. The gap between fires was never long enough to job hunt. Now I have plenty of time.
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Troy Gould reacted on thisTroy Gould reacted on thisWhen you have to commute home but your Claude Code agents are in the middle of a massive refactor 😂 Laptop safely unattended while driving.
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Troy Gould reacted on thisTroy Gould reacted on thisAs I cross the threshold of my 23rd year at Thoughtworks the LinkedIn algorithm is likely to do its thing, and announce the anniversary. However, I wanted to share that this anniversary is also my last. I’ll soon be moving on from Thoughtworks. It’s quite the milestone: after all this time, it won’t be so much closing a chapter as completing a volume. With so many memories to cherish, stories to share, and people to shout out, I suspect even trying to link or list them all might get me banned for spamming! Instead, I’ll share just a few thoughts. I’ve had the fortune to spend time in multiple roles—in PS, based here in the UK, for a short while in the US, and for three years in China, where I helped grow our first anchor clients. In marketing, I helped build our online and social presence; in IT, shaped the way colleagues work together; and more recently in corporate strategy, welcomed newly acquired companies into the fold, and developed partnerships with others. In some ways, it has been a variety of careers all in one. But there was also an underlying constant, albeit one that is tricky to pin down: There used to be a tagline under the logo: ‘the art of heavy lifting.’ It attracted people who liked really hard problems. But deeper in the website, you would find words about the people we wanted to be: those who combined ‘aptitude, attitude, and integrity.’ That simple maxim led to the building of a truly amazing community of people. Being welcomed into that community is what has made being a part of Thoughtworks special. There were less than 400 people when I started, now it's well over 25 times that. Even back then - I joined 10 years into the life of the company - there were concerns that “it’s not how it used to be.” Maybe it wasn’t, but I always felt that was missing the point. There’s a special culture shared by Thoughtworkers, that really is at the core of who we are, but it can’t be bottled up - a healthy culture thrives not through stability, but through feeding, cultivation and growth. It is through constant renovation that this culture has been kept vital. To be part of this has been a blast, an opportunity to partake in a somewhat bonkers social experiment*, where we get to do amazing work, with lovely people, and try and leave the world a little bit better as a result. There also comes a moment when it is time to move on; to develop the culture by taking just a little bit, and transplanting it into a new environment. As a result, ‘Thoughtworks’ becomes a broader community, reaching well beyond the company walls; one that shares a set of norms and values. Thinking of it this way certainly makes it much less daunting to be stepping outside. As I’ve been wrapping things up, I have also been quite pleased to realize that some of the very first code I wrote in the company is still in production! Of course, I hope to have had a lasting effect in other ways too, just as so many at Thoughtworks have most certainly had for me ❤️
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Microsoft Customer Advisory Council - Team Foundation Server
Advisory Board Member
-Member of North American advisory board with insight into product roadmap for Team Foundation Server - now known as Azure DevOps. As a successfully early adopter of Agile software management tools, Continuous Integration tools, and leading projects towards Continuous Delivery, I was asked to join a customer advisory council to provide feedback and prioritization of features to Microsoft's product team via quarterly meetings and bi-weekly online review sessions with Microsoft's product team.
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Presenter: Agile Vancouver 2009
Presention: The Last Mile - Beyond Continuous Integration
Often the most painful, time-consuming and expensive parts of building software is the integration and release process. This session explains how to implement the practices of continuous integration and apply automation to create a rapid, repeatable and reliable build, deploy, test and release (continuous delivery/CD) process. Co-presented with colleague - Joe Poon
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