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Puppet: What does the future of work look like? Sync NI spoke with Sinead Heverin, Director of Engineering within global tech firm Puppet’s Belfast operations, to discuss the question that’s been on everyone’s minds basically since the pandemic began
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ow do workplaces change as companies decide to go back to work?
We sat down with Sinead Heverin, Director of Engineering and the Belfast Site Lead at software company Puppet, to get her answer to this pressing question. Sinead joined Puppet four years ago as a Senior Engineering Manager after 4+ years with Visa as a Director of Engineering. As Site Lead in Belfast, she leads product development teams in the location.
Puppet’s products are used by some of the biggest companies and government institutions on the planet. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, USA, but has offices all over the world, with Belfast being one of its leading engineering think tanks. Puppet has always operated as a hybrid-remote workforce, but Covid-19 has encouraged the company to rethink how they can be even more effective going forward. The company