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Our own CTO Ravs Kaur shared her story on a recent "CTO session" - she digs into emerging technologies she's excited about, ones she thinks are overhyped and how to align technology to business goals.

CTO Sessions: Ravs Kaur, Uplevel Which emerging technology are you most excited about the prospect of? "I’m really excited about the prospects of machine learning and AI, especially the impact that it can have on education, healthcare, and even agriculture."

Whether you're a seasoned manager or just promoted, we've put together top things to think about in our new manager guide for software development teams:

So, you became an engineering manager. Now what? | Uplevel Manager life isn’t for everyone, but with the right preparation, it can be the reality you’ve been eyeing. Here's our guide for new engineering managers.

What will work be like in 2021? Here are our predictions for the year ahead as we reviewing how so much has changed over the past 10 months. https://uplevelteam.com/2021/01/15/uplevel-predictions-for-2021/

Will we have "work in the office" days vs. WFH days? (we think so!) Will we get over our love of open office concepts (yes, please!)

Looking forward: Uplevel predictions for 2021 | Uplevel What will work be like in 2021? Here are our predictions for the year ahead as we reviewing how so much has changed over the past 10 months.

As 2021 kicks off, we’re all in need of a fresh start. How can you embrace the new year? We compiled seven thought-starters to get your team aligned and inspire some personal growth.

We made it: Starting 2021 with a new year, new spirit | Uplevel We’ve run the numbers, compiled the data, created the charts, and come to a conclusion: 2020 was a really tough year.

We're so proud of our CTO Ravs Kaur. Learn more about her in the post below.

— Beating the Odds

Tough times either break you or make you strong. The decision is all yours what you are willing to choose. Today's founder came out as a leader conquering all the obstacles.

Meet Ravs Kaur, CTO and co-founder at Uplevel, a platform to boost productivity for engineering and a Madrona Venture Labs spinout. The Seattle-based tech startup raised $7.5 million this January.

She remembers that one night of August 1990 when she was 9 and her brother woke her up informing her that Iraq had invaded Kuwait. Kaur always gives credit to her father for the leadership skills she has. It was her father who showed her how leaders should tackle the situations amid such harrowing experiences.

The whole family fled Kuwait and then stayed in India for almost two years as refugees. Those were the pivotal moments where Kaur found herself as a leader.

Prior to Uplevel, she worked with Tableau Software for 6 years, and for more than a decade, she worked with Microsoft. Her leadership was challenged during that journey too with the questions like whether she is just a representation of commitment towards diversity or she really earns the position.

But later, she realized that such slights are not just individual, every woman has to face the same. employHER applauds you for not giving up at any cost and giving us a role model to follow.

To see how Uplevel leads to victory, hear from our managers on the product! On the blog today are two real use cases from managers using Uplevel.

Uplevel to the rescue: Use cases for engineering effectiveness | Uplevel To see how Uplevel leads to victory, consider these two real use cases from managers using Uplevel.

It’s clear to us at Uplevel that everyone loves data. What’s less clear to the managers and software engineers that we work with is what to DO with data. We’ve learned that if teams are going to act on data, it needs to be timely and actionable. To that end, today we launched a new weekly digest. Check it out:

[Feature launch] New Uplevel weekly digest | Uplevel Uplevel is launching a “Weekly Digest” to all engineerings on the platform to detail what's improved and what might need attention for the week ahead.

What's happened in 2020? We analyzed our user database to find out. Here's what we found: More meetings. Less Deep Work time. Maintained or increased pull request volume. Your people are working hard, but they are burned out. Learn more in our report:

Uplevel Users Reveal Their 2020 Experience What happened in 2020? More meetings. Less Deep Work time. Maintained or increased pull request volume. Teams are accomplishing remarkable feats during an unpredictable time. But they're burned out.

If Slack notifications, emails, and meeting reminders pulled you into different tasks more than once while reading this article, you might want to take a look at how context switching is affecting your productivity....

The silent villain of productivity? Context switching | Uplevel If Slack notifications, emails, and meeting reminders pull you away while reading this article, it might be time to review your context switching.

Regardless of your new normal, every engineering team has experienced significant change this year. We can't fix the world - but we can have empathy. Here's our ideas on how to put that in action.

Building empathy in a year of distance | Uplevel Regardless of your new normal—or however long it’s been since you thought of the word “normal”—every one has experienced significant change this year.