[robnado]

Software Engineers need to get involved politically and demand regulations that systems that are critical for national security be developed by residents of the US on US soil by actual people with the right qualifications.

[entuno]

Qualifications are an interesting one, because they seem to be something that gets very little regard the development space.

Other areas like IT security or systems/network administration have tons of different qualifications/certifications that you can take, aligned to specific roles and career paths. Whether they're actually any good is another question - but at least there is some kind of structure there. And there are some attempts being made to further formalise it, with bodies like the UK Cyber Security Council establishing a professional register and chartership status.

But I don't think I've never met a developer who's talked about any programming-related certifications that they have. I'm sure that there must be some out there, but they don't seem to be widely used or respected.

And I suspect that any attempt to formalise the industry and require people to get certified to specific standards would result in a lot of pushback.

[aaronbaugher]

The ones I'm familiar with are mainly administered by corporate platforms like Salesforce, and appear to be mainly a revenue stream for them.

[nradov]

What are the right qualifications? Most military software development work already requires a security clearance and can only be performed on US soil.

[franktankbank]

Healthcare IT is dominated by India. No skin in the game, no thought for the end customers (patients).