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TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Mark Kinsella, VP of engineering for Opendoor, a real estate software company, about engineers. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

Karen Roby: This is interesting I think because the role of the engineer has changed some through the years, of course, and we’ve been living through a pandemic. So many of us are working remotely now, which has really changed things too. How have things really changed for engineers through the last couple of years, do you think?

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Mark Kinsella: Well, especially with a trend toward working remotely and working from home, a key thing that we need to focus on is keeping collaboration strong. Especially on the engineering

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Finding the best chat software is a complicated mess. Why? Because everyone and every company uses a different service for team collaboration, messaging and even chatting with clients/customers. Some use Slack, others use Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. You might prefer Android Messages or iMessage. What about Twitter or Facebook messages?

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Do you see where I’m going with this? Chat runs the gamut of services and platforms. So, when I was asked to decide on what chat software was the best option for Linux, macOS, and Windows, I had to take a different approach … one that could please everyone. I certainly couldn’t

Fix once, automate the solution and then deploy many times. That’s the philosophy behind Shoreline.io, a company that aims to make life easier for site reliability engineers. 

Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline.io, has plenty of experience in solving operational problems for cloud deployments. He was a vice president at AWS for almost eight years and ran the analytic and relational database services on the AWS Database team. He also spent more than three years as a vice president of engineering at Oracle. 

Gupta has two goals for the company:

1. Make managing, debugging and repairing a fleet of servers as simple as repairing an individual box
2. Create a tool that makes fixing a problem permanently as easy as fixing it the first time

A site reliability engineer maps out a fix for a