You Don't Look Like an Engineer

Monica will share her experiences on how she has become an Engineering team lead at Elastic, a leading open source software company that to date has more than 100M product downloads. From once being a female college graduate that no one was likely to trust, to now being in the driving seat of key technical product development decisions, Monica has embraced so many opportunities from both a personal and professional perspective and is excited to share her journey with you today.

The story has its up and downs, from quitting jobs when they were no longer challenging, to starting a company and pivoting into open source. All of this while continuing to balance parenthood and a growing successful engineering career.

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1. You don’t look like an Engineer Monica Sarbu
2. 2 About ME Mother @elastic
3. 3 Kibana Elasticsearch Logstash Beats Elastic, the company behind open source projects
4. 4 +150M DOWNLOADS +100 000 COMMUNITY MEMBERS
5. 5 Leading the Beats team
6. 6 Get Started Quickly, Right Out of the Box A lot of magic happens under the hood — shards, replicas, cluster discovery — but you don’t have to worry about any of it to get started. With sensible defaults and no up-front schema de nition, Elasticsearch makes it easy to start simple and ne tune as you grow. It all started with Paketbeat
7. 7 Packetbeat joins Elastic
9. 9 “I don’t look like an engineer”
10. 10 Female engineers are rare Practicing engineers 11% https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html
11. 11 Engineering school graduates Women 20% https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html
12. 12 Women leaving the engineering field Of engineering graduates 40% https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html
13. 13 Leave the field after age 30 1/4 women 1/10 men https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html
14. 14 Sacrifice for the family Reason 1
15. 15 Can I continue my career path after becoming a mother?
16. 16 Find the right working environment
17. 17 Learn how to be organized
18. 18 Involve the partner That’s normal!
19. 19 Discouraged by the first employer Reason 2
20. 20 Change the job, don’t leave the field
21. 21 Start a company
22. 22 Open Source • Free marketing • Easier to build a community around it • Lower initial costs • Choose the right tools
23. 23 Project owners on GitHub Source: http://alyssafrazee.com/2014/06/04/gender-and-github-code.html Female owners ~5%
24. 24 Project owners on GitHub Source: http://alyssafrazee.com/2014/06/04/gender-and-github-code.html Female owners ~5% Lots of authors use a gender neutral username
25. 25 Merged pull requests on GitHub Source: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ Opened by women 78,6% Opened by men 74,6%
26. 26 How to keep women in tech?
27. 27 Better working environments
28. 28 Child care
30. 30 Flex schedule
31. 31 Judge people by their output and not by their working hours
32. 32 Flex schedule at Elastic
33. 33 Elastic, distributed by design 649 30+ 32 ELASTICIANS COUNTRIES LANGUAGES as of Oct 31, 2017
34. 34 Hire from anywhere
35. 35 Your location is a descriptor, not a defining attribute Tanya Bragin Senior Director of Product Management
36. 36 How we work?
39. 39 Async communication
40. 40 Open & public
41. 41 We care.
42. 42 Women at Elastic Number of females Number of females as people managers Increase of hiring women in the last 6 months 22% 31% 40%
44. 44 Write blog posts when world issues arrive
45. 45 5 days of Volunteer Time Off
46. 46 #lifeatelastic
47. 47 #lifeatelastic
48. Thank you! @monicasarbu