Career Advice You Can't Google
Join us for an intimate discussion as our panelists provide insight
into how they’ve grown their careers, developed meaningful
relationships with engineering and executive leadership, and how
they’ve used their own influence to impact technical and product
decisions. How do these leaders manage various stakeholders? What were
the pivotal moments that got them to that next step in their career?
Panelists and attendees will get the opportunity to network after the
discussion. _Coffee and breakfast are on the house!_
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
* Roojuta Lalani - Principal Software Engineer SALESFORCE
* Bianca Tamayo - Senior Software Engineer Tesla
* Maureen Botoman - Director of Engineering Pluralsight
* Pamela Martinez - Founder and CTO SNOWBALL WEALTH
* Maria Verba - Quality Engineer Lead HANDSHAKE
AGENDA
* Breakfast & Networking: 8:00 am-8:30 am
* Panel + Q&A: 8:30 am-9:30 am
* Free Time with Panelists and Attendees: 9:30 am-10:00 am
Attendees can submit specific questions for panelists upon
registering.
MEET OUR PANELISTS:
ROOJUTA LALANI [https://www.linkedin.com/in/roojuta/] - PRINCIPAL
SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALESFORCE
Roojuta Lalani is a Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
currently working on building machine learning and natural language
processing based products. She has a Masters in Software Engineering
followed by nine years of industry experience building scalable
applications for B2B as well as B2C. Roojuta also serves as President
for Women In Technology at Salesforce and is passionate about
educating and mentoring young girls and women globally. She has been
mentoring with organizations like Technovation, Techwomen, Girls Who
Code and local schools in her neighborhood.
BIANCA TAMAYO [https://www.linkedin.com/in/biancatamayo/] - SENIOR
SOFTWARE ENGINEER TESLA
Bianca Tamayo is a Sr. Software Engineer at Tesla Motors. She loves
working on or dabbling in anything around infrastructure, real-time
networks, platform engineering, automation, systems, and security. As
an engineer, she loves tackling difficult problems enjoys spending
time on learning and finding out how something works: tinkering,
taking things apart, and putting them back together. She is a
product-oriented person who views software, processes, and code as
products that deserve to be well-designed and thoughtfully crafted.
Her biggest passions are learning, design, science, and animal
welfare. Outside of work, she likes to read and explore, and is foster
parent for QBSDR dogs.
MAUREEN BOTOMAN [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenbotoman/]
- DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING PLURALSIGHT
Maureen Botoman is a developer turned engineering leader with a
passion for fostering autonomy in individuals and teams. Maureen
values continuous learning, and recognizing that learning can happen
in all forms. She strives to get a variety of information to try to
find the best strategies to move forward. In her quest for knowledge,
she has gotten her MBA from the University of Utah, is an avid reader,
and an obsessive podcast listener. Maureen is a champion for
inclusivity at all levels, from serving as an accessibility advocate
at work to launching a chapter of Women Who Code in Utah. Currently
Maureen is working as the Director of Engineering for the learner
engagement group at Pluralsight.
PAMELA MARTINEZ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/pammartinez/] - FOUNDER
AND CTO SNOWBALL WEALTH
Pamela Martinez is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and diversity
advocate. She is currently founder and CTO of Snowball Wealth, working
to increase accessibility to financial coaching. Before Snowball, Pam
was an engineering leader at two education startups, Seesaw and
Clever, and was part of Xbox One’s launch as a Product Manager. Pam
has a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and grew up
in Houston.
MARIA VERBA [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-verba-handshake/] -
QUALITY ENGINEER LEAD HANDSHAKE
During an undergraduate internship at a two-person startup, Maria
discovered both the thrill and the responsibility of working on
products that directly impact thousands of people. In 8 years since
then, she has been the face of quality and developer productivity
advocate at three startups, and is currently leading the Quality and
Tools engineering team at Handshake. Every day Maria and her team is
collaborating with engineers, product managers, designers and customer
success to maintain high quality products and rapid pace of
development. Having studied mathematics Maria became acquainted with
male-dominated domains early on and understands first hand the value
of having a strong female role model. This made mentorship a
fundamental part of who Maria is and she seeks opportunities to mentor
at Handshake and beyond.
_Who is this event for? The session is intended to be of particular
use for software engineers and web developers. _
_By signing up for this month’s #WomenInTech Breakfast, you have
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ABOUT THE HOSTS:
ModelExpand [https://www.modelexpand.com/] is a diversity recruiting
strategy firm that helps companies through strategic consulting,
workshops and events. As tech continues to grow, ModelExpand's mission
is to ensure people from various backgrounds are included. The
#WomeninTech Breakfast Series is open to all.
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