Readying Blacks in technology for the future.
Despite a recent push to diversify the technology sector, Blacks and Latinos still make up just 4 percent to 5 percent of the tech workforce, according to data publishing platform Silk. This, says tech innovator Gregory Greenlee, is why the organization he founded, Blacks in Technology (BiT), is still very much needed.
Greenlee is a systems engineer with experience in a wide variety of technology disciplines, including designing high-availability networks, network administration, Windows and Linux system administration, firewall administration, Windows Exchange administration, SAN administration, virtualization, cloud computing, AWS, Puppet, GIT and Python. Currently, a DevOps(development and operations) engineer at education consultants Hobsons Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio, he officially launched BiT in 2012, after creating the website in 2008. He hoped not only to bring together people of color in tech but also to encourage more people of color to enter the sector, and to urge tech companies to become more diverse.
Having been in the sector for more than a decade, this Cincinnati native had a vested interest in increasing diversity in the industry. Today, BiT is the largest online community of people of color in technology, with an online membership base of nearly 2,000 Black technology and engineering professionals and enthusiasts worldwide. Greenlee recently spoke to The Network Journal about his organization and its plans for the future.
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