You Don't Look Like an Engineer

You don’t look like an Engineer Monica Sarbu Director of
Engineering, Ingest @Elastic

!2 You don’t look like an engineer!

!3 Lead Developer CS degree Logstash @Elastic Beats Team lead
#ILookLikeAnEngineer Mother

!4 Monitoring and Logging solution

!5 Team distribution

!6 Leaders Diversity of the team

!7 Put yourself in the shoes of a women in
tech

!9 How does that make you feel?

!10 Women leaving the engineering field of engineering graduates 40%
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html

!11 Reason to leave tech * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Workplace culture 716
Interviewers 27%

!12 Don’t leave the industry, move to a company with
a healthy culture

!13 Start a company

!14 The power of Open Source

!15 Project owners on GitHub Source: http://alyssafrazee.com/2014/06/04/gender-and-github-code.html Female owners ~5%

!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 Merged pull requests on GitHub Source: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ Opened by
women 78,6% Opened by men 74,6%

!18 Reason to leave tech * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Motherhood 716 Interviewers
68%

!19 * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Stay-at-home mothers 716 Interviewers <6%

!20 Can I continue my career path after becoming a
mother?

!21 Be in the right working environment

!22 Balance work with family

!24 Change the mentality

!25 Female leaders in tech

!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 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 Becoming a manager

!29 How to create a healthy culture?

!30 Servant leadership

!31 Offer Flex schedule

!32 Judge people by their results and not by their
working hours

!33 Give them the freedom to innovate

!34 Encourage engineers own a project

!35 Help them grow

Thank you! @monicasarbu

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