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 Welcome to Hottest Tech Jobs Market in the U.S. + Weekly Business News Digest

Silicon Valley’s layoffs mean the Washington, D.C., region is now a hot tech hiring market, reported the Wall Street Journal. The region has more job openings for software developers than the California markets do, as nontechnology companies load up on engineering talent while startups and tech behemoths cut back.

There were 2,369 software-engineering job postings in the San Francisco metro area and 2,084 around San Jose, Calif., which includes Silicon Valley, at the end of last year. Some 3,815 jobs were posted in the Washington, D.C., region at that time, according to an analysis of listings by Vertis AI, a workplace-data company.

Fairfax County, the economic engine of the Greater Washington region, is home to more than 8,800 technology companies that are currently hiring for thousands of jobs. Here are some of their stories:

Matt Calkins founded Appian in Fairfax County in 1999. Today, the world-leading Low-code Automation Platform company’s global headquarters are in Tysons, keeping it local. With access to top-notch talent, an impressive corporate campus, and neighbors like Amazon here in Northern Virginia, Calkins knows he made the right decision to stay. 

Easy Dynamics Corporation, a technology services provider with a core focus in cybersecurity, cloud computing, and information sharing, expanded its operations in the Tysons area of Fairfax County in 2022. Here is what Easy Dynamics CEO Poupak Afshar has to say about choosing Fairfax County:

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