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Today, we're talking to Kendall Billman, who started at Cloud City as a personal assistant, but truly shines in their new role as an operations manager. Read on to learn about Kendall's road from Ohio to the Bay Area and how they found their passion for operations management, scary movies and cross-stitch.

Today, we’re chatting with Britt Fritsch, a new member of the Cloud City product team. Read on to learn more about their passion for product management, animals and gardening (especially uniquely colored produce).

We're excited to announce that Round Robin, our new Slack app, is now available for you to install in your Slack workspace. Round Robin helps you share tasks among a team, fairly.

A functioning, user-friendly online experience isn’t just a nice-to-have. It can be a tool for connection and community. And creating those experiences is one of the best parts of our job.

Today, we’re chatting with Cain Watson, a new member of the Cloud City engineering team. Read on to discover how he approaches development, dancing and rescuing plants (from himself).

Estimating, like anything in software development, is a skill. And it’s a HARD one. No one begins their coding career already amazing at estimating.

Today, we’re chatting with Caroline Taymor, a new member of the Cloud City engineering team. Read on to discover how they bridge the gap between business needs and tech challenges — when they’re not tending a mini urban farm in their front yard.

This analytical yet creative user experience designer works holistically. Why? To ensure your big goal is always supported, even in the smallest details.

Asking for help is a more efficient use of time than rabbit-holing. Don’t feel bad about doing it.

As a kid chasing snakes in Swaziland, Gabriel Williams didn’t realize he’d become a successful engineer. But life rarely turns out as you expect it.

Destined to be a software engineer from an early age, Martin Emde is a pro at innovating solutions and thinking outside the “blocks.”

Many tech companies have similar approaches to hiring. But Cloud City is different. Read on to see what one of our newest consultants thinks about our interviewing experience.

Dylan Baker has helped clients ranging from the NBA to Dale Carnegie engage their audience and improve their user experience.

A design pro with more than 20 years of experience, Manda Miller helps companies of all sizes express themselves in print and online. She also has mad karaoke skills.

Logan Jewett discovered programming while studying to become an astronaut. Today, he helps clients build better, smarter solutions to their customers’ challenges.

Arlette has helped clients like Apple, Toyota and Sony use technology to develop processes and products that work for humans.

Am I the only one who forgot how to be social during the past 18 months of isolation?

Creating a sense of community in the workplace is vital. Here are three tips that could help foster community for remote, hybrid and in-person teams.

Before you throw in the towel on remote work, we’d like to suggest a few changes that can make your current arrangement more collaborative and productive.

Learn why you should be wary of hiring an offshore group that treats its developers like commodity assets instead of individuals with unique skills.

I learned about my mutated gene when I was 25—a susceptibility protein that puts me at major risk of developing cancer before the age of 40. It can be quite terrifying to live with the knowledge that there is a ticking time bomb hiding within

Covid-19 is one of the most disruptive global events to happen in our lifetime. Though there is still much to learn about the virus, public health leaders and policymakers must make strategic, rapid, and thoughtful decisions based on evidence and science. Working with PreventEpidemics.org, we built an accessible tool to help inform both decision makers and the public at large.

Happy Galentine’s Day everyone!

This post came out of a tiny expression of gratitude.

Microaggressions appear to be small slights, but substantially contribute to a hostile work environment. From the outside, they look innocuous enough; more like clumsy misunderstandings, but a persistent pattern of them can wield tremendous damage to teams.

Resolving to lose a few pounds is usually a futile exercise. There are far easier things to lose than an inch or two. I’m talking about the assholes at your company. What kind of asshole are we talking about here? And why should you care?

We were founded on the belief that wholehearted software design and development can better the world. Since 2003, Cloud City has been working alongside our clients to shape a better world through knowledge. Becoming a B Corp is one more way we can inspire other organizations to not just be best in the world, but to be the best for the world.

Through the Open Source Malaria consortium, high school chemistry students took on the challenge of reproducing Daraprim, an essential medicine according to the World Health Organization. They shared the data they generated and received mentorship from scientists worldwide, successfully recreating the drug within a year.

Improving diversity in tech won’t happen overnight and can’t start until we include everyone. Andre Arko covers five things he’s seen and experienced over the last six years of working on Bundler. Before jumping in blindly, keep in mind that they may not work for everyone. Pay attention to how tech as a field mistreats underrepresented people and actively work to fix it.

We built that! Using core-model methodology, responsive web design, and agile development, we collaborated with SF Pride to launch an easy-to-update site in time for its 2016 event.

At Cloud City Development, we care a lot about people--treating them humanely, helping them accomplish their goals, and working together to make the field of tech and the world a better place. Andre Arko shares five reasons why including people in tech matters and why everyone, not just marginalized or excluded people must speak up.

So I titled this “How to be an ally,” but that’s a lie. You can’t be an ally. No one can. Ally-ness isn’t something that you can have intrinsically, any more than you can inherently be kindness, or rudeness. You can do ally actions. So probably a better name for this is How To Do Ally Work. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.

This is a difficult blog post to write. At Cloud City Development, we had many conversations about the problems with diversity and sexism in tech, such as women reporting harassment and abuse at tech conferences, online conversations challenging the Ruby culture, and community struggles to make everyone feel welcome, especially marginalized groups. As individuals, employees, and Ruby community members, what is our role in creating the kind of community we want to be in?

Unlike the 1.6 billion people who have seen “Gangnam Style” on YouTube, a lot fewer have seen the documentary Half the Sky. Even fewer know about the themes the documentary explores: sociocultural barriers and institutional misogyny in the developing world, where girls may be sold into brothels, boys get an education but girls often don’t, and domestic violence is prevalent.

Malaria is a disease that most of us are familiar with because of its devastatingly high death toll. According to the CDC, in 2010 an estimated 216 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide and 655,000 people died — that’s approximately 1,550 people every day. While many groups are valiantly working on treating malaria or searching for a cure, they haven’t been consistently working together, which means many lab experiments are redundant.

Whether you are a new graduate fresh out of school, or you are in the middle of a career change and enrolled in a program to build new skills, your experience as a student inevitably ties certain words to your name. To name a few, there’s “New Grad,” “Young,” “Potential,” “Promising,” “A Maybe,” “Trainable,” and the dreaded, “Not Enough Experience.”