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Diversity in the tech industry has become a huge topic of conversation in recent years, and rightly so. Too many large companies like Apple, Facebook, Amazon and others still employ an overwhelmingly white and male workforce, especially on the technical side. Pinterest engineer Makinde Adeagbo wants that to change, and has focused his efforts on Black software engineers with the launch of /dev/color, an independent nonprofit that seeks to boost the number of Black engineers throughout the industry. The /dev/color community is targeted to software engineers based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with people from Pinterest, Facebook, Airbnb, and more, and students from…

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