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Partner: Blazing Cloud Cross-Training

Published on: August 9, 2010

Need more engineering power for your startup? We know Ruby on Rails engineers are in short supply. Blazing Cloud’s Cross-Training Program fills the gap. Women 2.0 is proud to partner with Blazing Cloud to help startups find and successfully “on-board” an engineer.

Blazing Cloud creates an effective environment for your startup to on-board engineers who need to come up to speed on the full stack required to work in Ruby on Rails. Blazing Cloud will provide an intensive week-long training for the engineer. After training, the engineer works with your team for 11 weeks. After the 12-week program, the engineer is ramped up to work at your company as a full-time employee.

Email crosstrain@women2.org to get started on ramping up your startup’s engineering prowess.

2 Comments

Marcia McLean

posted August 9, 2010 at 5:09 pm

I’ve been a .NET developer for several years and have been looking for an opportunity to get “hands on” with R0R. This is a very good idea.

Angie

posted August 9, 2010 at 6:46 pm

From the Blazing Cloud website:

Engineers come to us from diverse backgrounds, such as:

- an engineer who has spent time away from the profession but now wishes to return (parental leave or alternate career choice)

- an experienced engineer whose focus has been in a different domain, such as embedded systems, desktop applications or Java

- a self-taught programmer with demonstrable skills who delights in learning new programming languages and frameworks

Contact Michael Pope at mpope@captainrecruiter.com for more info about how to become one of the on-ramped RoR engineers.

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