[Online] Speaker Series Pt3: The Many Ways to Manage in Tech

** Please note this event begins at 5:00pm! (1 hour earlier than our usual time) **

Our next Speaker Series event will spotlight different management careers in tech. Management generally refers to 'people' managers, but this event will discuss how in tech, that is not always the case!
Join us for a conversation with Kruti Gosalia, Bijal Parekh, Mila Feijoo, and Rocio Montes about the different ways to manage in tech.

Panelists:

Kruti Gosalia - Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon
Kruti Gosalia is currently a Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon. She started her career as a software engineer, transitioned to a software engineering manager role 10+ years ago and since been leading multiple development teams. She recently pursued a technology management MBA degree and graduated class valedictorian in 2019 from University of Washington, Foster School of Business. At Amazon, she leads multiple Checkout teams whose mission is to be the most trusted and delightfully easy purchase experience on Earth. She lives in Seattle, WA which has been home for 17 years and enjoys reading, hiking and kayaking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krutigosalia/

Bijal Parekh - Sr. Cloud Delivery Specialist, The CoStar Group
Bijal is a Sr. Cloud Delivery Specialist at The CoStar Group. In this role, she is a catalyst in providing Costar’s business objectives, technical requirements to the AWS that will transform Costar current on-premise technology stack to cloud hosted platform. She also wears a technical hat by working with Costars AppDev team to understand current processes, technologies, and identifying cloud migration strategies. Her prior experience includes, Sr. SQL Server Database Administrator, managing multi-terabyte production databases. Bijal enjoys spending time with her kids, brainstorming blockchain ideas with her husband, painting, and meditation.

Mila Feijoo - Senior Technical Supervisor, PlayStation
Mila is a Senior Technical Art Project Supervisor for the Visual Arts team at PlayStation Studios, Creative Arts in San Diego, California. She's been at PlayStation for ten years leading several teams of technical artists in supporting over a dozen videogame cinematics production pipelines. Most recently, Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Returnal and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. She really enjoys what she gets to work on at PlayStation, mostly because it involves improving workflows, solving technical problems and helping people.

Mila was born in Madison, Wisconsin while her dad was working on his PhD in Computer Science. Returning “home” to Venezuela at 3 years old, she grew up in Caracas where her dad always had a computer she could play on, and her Mom always had a craft project (or ten) in progress. After obtaining a degree in Computer Science at Universidad Simon Bolivar, she followed her interest in the intersection of math and art, getting a Master’s degree in computer graphics at Brown University. After a bumpy start applying to different companies, she found a 6-week Junior Technical Artist contract here at PlayStation and they haven’t been able to get rid of her since.

Mila and her family enjoy living in the San Diego area in sunny California. During the pandemic she picked up some new hobbies like baking bread and playing the ukulele.

Rocio Montes - Senior Engineering Manager, GitHub
Rocio Montes is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub. She leads the Actions Compute team, ensuring the massive capacity required to power Actions runners. She is a true community builder, and works to connect and collaborate with software engineers to deliver amazing end-to-end solutions. She is currently Co-Chair for Grace Hopper Conference's Open Source Day. Outside GitHub, Rocio is the Co-founder of “Emar”, a small business with a mission to connect US small businesses with technology needs to software engineering interns in Peru.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/montesrocio/

Location:
Online! The zoom link will be visible when you RSVP.
Please make sure you have a Zoom account set up before the event.

Schedule:
5:00pm - 5:15pm = Welcome and Introductions!
5:15pm - 6:30pm = The Many Ways to Manage Tech Panel
6:30pm - 7:00pm = Q&A

Additional info:
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