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You Don't Look Like an Engineer

Monica Sarbu
November 09, 2017

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.

Monica Sarbu

November 09, 2017
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  1. 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
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  3. 12 Women leaving the engineering field Of engineering graduates 40%

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html
  4. 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
  5. 22 Open Source • Free marketing • Easier to build

    a community around it • Lower initial costs • Choose the right tools
  6. 35 Your location is a descriptor, not a defining attribute

    Tanya Bragin Senior Director of Product Management
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  9. 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%
  10. 43