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 Director of Engineering, Ingest @Elastic
2. !2 You don’t look like an engineer!
3. !3 Lead Developer CS degree Logstash @Elastic Beats Team lead #ILookLikeAnEngineer Mother
4. !4 Monitoring and Logging solution
5. !5 Team distribution
6. !6 Leaders Diversity of the team
7. !7 Put yourself in the shoes of a women in tech
8. !8
9. !9 How does that make you feel?
10. !10 Women leaving the engineering field of engineering graduates 40% https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html
11. !11 Reason to leave tech * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Workplace culture 716 Interviewers 27%
12. !12 Don’t leave the industry, move to a company with a healthy culture
13. !13 Start a company
14. !14 The power of Open Source
15. !15 Project owners on GitHub Source: http://alyssafrazee.com/2014/06/04/gender-and-github-code.html Female owners ~5%
16. !16 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
17. !17 Merged pull requests on GitHub Source: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ Opened by women 78,6% Opened by men 74,6%
18. !18 Reason to leave tech * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Motherhood 716 Interviewers 68%
19. !19 * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Stay-at-home mothers 716 Interviewers <6%
20. !20 Can I continue my career path after becoming a mother?
21. !21 Be in the right working environment
22. !22 Balance work with family
24. !24 Change the mentality
25. !25 Female leaders in tech
26. !26 US Managers who are engaged 41% WOMEN Gallup research 35% MEN https://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/197552/women-lead-men-key-workplace-engagement-measures.aspx
27. !27 Women at Tech Companies 29% 16% 22% TOTAL LEADERS TECHNICAL http://www.isaca.org/info/2017-women-in-technology-survey/index.html?cid=pr_1210374&appeal=pr ISACA Global Survey Report
28. !28 Becoming a manager
29. !29 How to create a healthy culture?
30. !30 Servant leadership
31. !31 Offer Flex schedule
32. !32 Judge people by their results and not by their working hours
33. !33 Give them the freedom to innovate
34. !34 Encourage engineers own a project
35. !35 Help them grow
36. Thank you! @monicasarbu