BairesDev Launches E³ for Senior Engineering Leaders

This is super new in the community space, and it already feels very “BairesDev” in the best sense. Building a platform or environment is one thing, but the real challenge is creating a throughline that actually gets people with similar challenges to think together, across roles, contexts, and companies. It’s more about the “why” than the “where”. I’ve always been drawn to that overlap between goals and perspectives, and that luckily matches how ideas get stress-tested and extrapolated at BairesDev (and even in how my team navigates the worlds of Marketing and Sales day to day). Nice to see this approach being extended to industry leaders in this format, and it just feels right that BairesDev is the one inviting them in. Excited to see this take shape.

Building a trusted peer group is a smart investment when the cost of a bad decision keeps rising. The real value will come from candid disagreement, not consensus. Protecting that dynamic is what makes communities like this worthwhile.

For 15+ years, BairesDev has matched engineering talent with the right companies. 𝗘³ (Engineering Executive Exchange) launches with 40 founding leaders - #CTOs, #CDOs, and #VPs of #Engineering from Cisco, Adobe, and ServiceNow. 𝗘³ is an invite-only, small-group peer community - not a conference or platform - where senior leaders discuss decisions that lack internal peers. The operating environment is challenging: 79% of U.S. senior #tech leaders feel pressure to overstate #AI progress, and 97% have felt isolated. These findings reflect a top-level engineering issue: high-stakes decisions, tight timelines, and few peers. #BairesDev organized the community and brought together the founding cohort. The conversations belong to the members. Learn more at joinecubed.com.

One CTO told me he makes bigger calls before lunch than he used to make in a quarter. The board wants an AI strategy. The team is watching what their roles look like in two years. And there is no obvious peer inside the company to think any of it through with. For the past year, the same conversation has come up in almost every room I've been in with senior engineering leaders. Not about AI tools or hiring. About the fact that the decisions keep getting bigger and the number of people they can actually talk to about them keeps getting smaller. Then, earlier this year, we surveyed over 500 U.S. technology decision-makers for our AI Execution Gap report. 79% said they feel pressure to overstate AI progress to satisfy stakeholders. Not because they are dishonest, but because what the organization expects has outrun what the team can actually validate. That is the gap E³ was built to close. The E³ (Engineering Executive Exchange) is an invite-only peer community for senior engineering leaders. 40 CTOs and VPs of Engineering from companies like Cisco, Adobe, and ServiceNow joined as the founding cohort. The format is recurring small-group dialogue. The kind of relationships that only form when the same group keeps showing up. It also includes a CTO Transition Toolkit for leaders moving between roles. The founding members kept bringing this up. When you are between roles at that level, the network you need most is the one that is hardest to maintain. Membership is open at the Director level or above, for leaders who oversee at least one software development team. BairesDev built the room and brought the people together. What happens inside it belongs to the members. If you are a senior engineering leader, or you know one, apply or pass this along. joinecubed.com

Why does a community like this need to exist? Nacho De Marco, who helped convene the founding cohort, shares his perspective on the moment senior engineering leaders are navigating right now, and why peer dialogue, not another tool, is how they're adapting. Learn more at joinecubed.com

As AI reshapes delivery models across the ServiceNow ecosystem, few perspectives are as valuable as someone who has led large-scale technology delivery through multiple waves of change. That's the experience Alamelu Subramanian brings to our panel. Global Head of Technology Practices (DES) at 𝗦𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, Alamelu has built her career leading large-scale technology delivery and change management across global organisations, including senior leadership roles at Tech Mahindra as VP Delivery and Technology Transformation Head. Alamelu joins us to share her perspective on skills, talent, and innovation in the AI era of ServiceNow. 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 | 𝟭𝟭 𝗔𝗠 – 𝟭𝟮 𝗣𝗠 | 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 https://lnkd.in/gsgy9r-B #WomenEverydaySeries #SheWork #ServiceNow #Sutherland #FutureOfWork #WomenInTech

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. 🌐 Big news from home! 🎉 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨 𝐒𝐄 - one of Europe's top digital engineering firms — in a landmark deal worth €1.27 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 (~$1.45𝐁). And I couldn't be more proud to be part of this journey. 💙 This isn't just a headline. It's a 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬. 📊 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬: • Combined revenue: $2.9 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 • Workforce: 46,000+ 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 • Global footprint: 40+ 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 • Offer price: €81/𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 — 𝐚 140% 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 • Europe revenue share grows from 9% → 22% post-deal 🎯 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲: • Directly expands Persistent's 𝐀𝐈-𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 • Adds Nagarro's deep domain expertise — 4 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐩 5 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 & 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬 • Strengthens enterprise platforms across 𝐄𝐑𝐏, 𝐂𝐗 & 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 • Both brands continue 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲, preserving culture while unlocking combined firepower 🗣️ 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: Sandeep Kalra, CEO, Persistent Systems said — "The next wave of enterprise transformation will be defined by AI, engineering excellence, and global scale." 💡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨 have the shared conviction that leading the next decade of AI-led digital engineering requires capabilities and local presence of a different order — and this combination accelerates exactly that. As a Software Engineer at Persistent, I'm not watching from the sidelines. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭. 🌍 What's your take on this consolidation in tech services? 👇 #PersistentSystems #Nagarro #TechStrategy #AIEngineering #FutureOfWork

A week into Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineer program through Wipro, I’m realizing that Hypervelocity Engineering is far less about AI acceleration and far more about execution discipline. Between my work leading AI and intelligent automation initiatives, building Pega and Salesforce capabilities, supporting transformation efforts at UnitedHealth Group, driving customer service modernization, engaging with clinician communities, and more recently discussing AI operating models with senior leaders in the Texas McCombs School of Business CTO Program, a common pattern has persisted: Most organizations do not struggle with ideas, investment, or technology. They struggle with turning intent into adoption. The hardest problems are rarely technology problems. They sit at the intersection of business priorities, engineering realities, workflow design, governance, and trust. As AI shifts from generating content to influencing decisions and workflows, I increasingly believe competitive advantage will belong to organizations that can operationalize change faster than others can institutionalize complexity. That is why this journey feels particularly relevant. #HypervelocityEngineering #ForwardDeployedEngineering #Microsoft #Wipro #EnterpriseTransformation #AI #AgenticAI #TechnologyLeadership #StrategyExecution #BusinessArchitecture #DigitalTransformation #LeadershipDevelopment

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I didn’t always know I would be good at technology. I took a chance on a path I was still learning to trust myself in. That decision changed my life. It helped me increase my salary, grow into leadership, and create stability for my daughter when I was navigating life as a single mom. It gave me options. It gave me confidence. It gave me a skillset that has continued to open doors. That’s something I think about often when I’m in rooms like this. At a recent ServiceNow forum, I was especially interested in the conversations around AI, automation, and the new ways organizations can think about service delivery, employee experience, and operational efficiency. But I was also thinking about the bigger picture. Technology has the power to change how companies work. For me, it also changed how I moved through the world. It taught me how to solve problems, ask better questions, build systems, and lead through complexity. As a woman in tech, I don’t take lightly the opportunities this career has created for me. I also don’t take lightly the responsibility to keep learning, stay curious, and help shape how these tools are used in meaningful, practical ways. AI is going to change the way we work. The opportunity is to be close enough to the change that we can help lead it, not simply react to it. That’s the part that excites me most.