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Interview with Elena Tatarchenko, Backend Engineering Manager at DataFox

February 26, 2018 Leave a Comment

Current role: Backend Engineering Manager at DataFox
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I went to MIT for undergrad and grad school for computer science and joined Box right after. At Box, I was on the Platform Integrations team as an individual contributor. I loved the culture at Box; it had a lot of highly motivated, experienced engineers. I learned a lot about how to ship production code,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: engineering manager, San Francisco, WomenInTech

Interview with Anne Hjortshoj, Manager, UX Research and Strategy, Cisco Cloud Security

February 7, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: Boston, MA
Current Role: Manager, UX Research and Strategy, Cisco Cloud Security

What’s my background, and how did I get into management?

I’ve been working in product design and strategy in some form or another for 20+ years. I started as an information architect (a UX designer), and quickly moved into a lead role. After the dot-com era imploded, I switched to independent consulting, and did product design and strategy work for big brands,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Boston, WomenInTech

Interview with Kimber Lockhart, CTO at One Medical

February 5, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: San Francisco, California
Current role: CTO at One Medical where I lead the product engineering, support, IT and security teams

What is your background and how did you get into management?

I started my career as a tech entrepreneur. A friend and I had an idea for a new way for people to collaborate and ultimately ended up starting a company called Increo our senior year at Stanford. We took funding April of that year,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: CTO, San Francisco, WomenInTech

Interview with Poorani Jeyasekar, Delivery Lead for Celerity Consulting

January 26, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: Mclean, Virginia
Current role: Delivery Lead for Celerity Consulting

What is your background, and how did you get into management?

My background is engineering and continuous improvement. I started working in training development and then moved to continuous improvement project management, and then ended up in technology where I had the opportunity to lead teams. And that’s how I ended up in management.

What are the biggest challenges you face?

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