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Dinah Davis is the VP of R&D at Arctic Wolf. She has 18 years industry experience, with 16 years of it in security roles at Arctic Wolf, BlackBerry, Trustwave, and CSE. Dinah holds a M.Math in Cryptography from the University of Waterloo and has over 15 patents in the cybersecurity space.
The work of Dinah's team played a crucial role in Arctic Wolf being named the 25th fastest growing company in North America on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 in 2019.
Dinah founded KW CyberSecurity Meetup(2017) and co-founded Waterloo Region's first Cyber Security Conference Cyber City(2019).
Dinah founded and ran Code Like a Girl from 2015 to 2018, a publication with over 40,000 subscribers striving to change society's perceptions of how women are viewed in technology.
Dinah Davis
VP of R&D
English
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Waterloo, Canada
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MY TALKS
How to Build a Unicorn Dev Team
Software Engineering, Professional Development, Leadership, Business Development, DevOps
A unicorn dev team is a high performance dev team in wich the company has reached unicorn status. After building a number of high performance development teams over the years I started to see a theme. Teams with happy developers perform better than teams with unhappy developer. I learned from an agile coach once that developers need to hear 7 positive things to every negative thing they hear and I took that to heart. I knew based on my experience leading teams that an agile mindset with open and transparent communication combined with continuous delivery processes would create a collaborative, high performing, happy development team and that in turn would create a High Performance Organization.
It's tough to measure organizational performance, especially with development teams. Bad measures lead to bad behavior. This talk shares actionable steps to build and measure high-performance development teams, with immediate implementation strategies.
The Career Building Formula
Soft Skills, Professional Development, Business Development, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech, Inspirational
Building a successful career isn’t about one successful project, promotion, or award. Building a successful product isn’t about one great idea. It is about taking small actions everyday that help to build a successful career or product over time. The difficult part often is identify what these actions should be. Over my career I have found a straight forward formula that helps you identify these actions. This talk is about imparting this knowledge to the audience so that they too can easily identify these key opportunities for career building actions.
Growing Female Talent in Security
Women in Tech, Inspirational, Leadership, Professional Development, Business Development, Soft Skills
In 2020 I interviewed over 50 women in security to find out how they made their way to a career in cybersecurity. In this talk I will go through how I found security, as well as the stories of many other women. I will then talk about the things we can do to help grow and build female talent in cybersecurity, so that one day the gender ratio will be much better than the 10% female it is in 2023.
Building a Unicorn - My Experiences with Finding Product Market Fit at Arctic Wolf.
Software Engineering, Product
I joined Arctic Wolf when the company was only 35 people and the dev team was only 15 people. Over the next 5 years I scaled our dev team, while the company hit Unicorn Status. This is the story of how we found product market fit. I also give tips and tricks for other companies on their journey to find product market fit.
Foundations of Success: Mastering Your First Few Weeks in a New Tech Role
Soft Skills, Professional Development, Leadership, Women in Tech
I share valuable insights on effectively navigating the early stages of a new tech job. Drawing from my extensive experiences, I provide key strategies for success in the dynamic tech industry. I emphasize the significance of being an active learner during the initial two weeks, understanding the intricacies of system architecture, fostering a respectful work environment, actively connecting with colleagues, and balancing self-care. The talk delivers a holistic perspective on achieving success in a new role, offering practical advice for continuous learning, collaborative engagement, and personal well-being.
The talk is based on this article.
https://code.likeagirl.io/foundations-of-success-mastering-your-first-few-weeks-in-a-new-tech-role-11343f8e5df7
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