The Only Woman in the Room
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Career highlights include leading a Developer Relations org, starting engineering teams of ~450, building the first mobile activation platform used by 29 telcos and an Anti‑Money‑Laundering platform serving millions of marketplace sellers, and creating an Asian ERG that grows to 6,000 members. Concrete numbers: women are ~50% of the population but ~25% of engineering roles worldwide (20% in the US) and only ~18% of CS degrees. Practical tactics: breathing pauses for imposter feelings, rehearsed public speaking, confronting microaggressions one‑on‑one, and building alliances that saved a role within days.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:51Gender disparity in tech
- 7:00Overcoming imposter syndrome
- 10:55Dealing with microaggressions
- 14:06Doing what scares you
- 16:18Building alliances at work
- 19:50Trusting your instincts
- 20:56Stopping workplace competition
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