Women Who Go (London)

2026 July Event hosted by Monzo

Tue, Jul 7 · 6:00 PM BST

Monzo Office, Broadwalk House, 5 Appold St, London EC2A 2AG, London, GB

Hi everyone! 👋

We are excited to announce our July in-person event 🎉

Register now and join us for a wonderful evening hosted by Monzo
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Broadwalk House, 5 Appold St, London EC2A 2AG

Please provide us with your name for registration purposes.

Agenda - rough timings

• 6:00 PM - Refreshments and registration
• 6:30 PM - Welcome and a few words from our hosts
• 6:40 PM - 🗣️ Write Your Wins Before Someone Else Writes Your Story: Aditi Sharma | Engineering Manager
  8:15 PM - Networking/Discussion
• 7:10 PM - Break
• 7:30 PM - 🗣️ Learning Go with AI, whilst staying in the driver's seat: Cynthia Mbulu | Software Engineer

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Write Your Wins Before Someone Else Writes Your Story | Aditi Sharma | Engineering Manager

Learning a new programming language can feel intimidating—but every stage of an engineering career comes with learning something new. In this interactive session, Aditi Sharma shares her journey from writing her first production code at Oracle, to building systems at Goldman Sachs, spending nearly nine years at Amazon, and now leading two engineering teams at Monzo.
Along the way, she'll explore a challenge many women in technology face: we're often much better at doing great work than talking about it. Drawing on research from Lean In and her own leadership experience, Aditi will lead a practical exercise to help attendees recognise, articulate, and celebrate their achievements with confidence.
Whether you're writing your first Go program or taking your next career step, you'll leave with practical tools to own your accomplishments and invest in your growth.

Speaker Bio:
Aditi Sharma is an Engineering Manager at Monzo, where she leads two engineering teams building consumer-facing products and platform capabilities. Before joining Monzo, she spent nearly nine years at Amazon leading large-scale engineering initiatives, including customer-facing AI experiences, after beginning her career as a software engineer at Oracle and Goldman Sachs.
Across every role, one thing has remained constant: the need to learn continuously. Passionate about helping engineers grow, Aditi enjoys mentoring, building high-performing teams, and encouraging others—especially women in technology—to recognise their achievements and pursue opportunities with confidence.

Learning Go with AI, whilst staying in the driver's seat | Cynthia Mbulu | Software Engineer

Six months into learning Go at Monzo (and freshly back from my first GopherCon EU), I've gradually been figuring out how to use AI to learn this new language with me, rather than for me. In this talk I'll share:

1. the honest 1:1 with my onboarding buddy that made me re-think my learning workflow,
2. the value-vs-pointer-receiver bug that tripped me up and got me thinking about the nuances of Go vs JavaScript,
3. and lastly, the three tactics I now use to stay in the driver's seat

If you're a new Gopher (or a career switcher in learning mode), you'll hopefully leave with a practical framework for using AI as a co-pilot (not the driver) and protecting the struggle that actually makes you a better engineer.

Speaker Bio:
Cynthia is a Software Engineer at Monzo and former NHS Hospital Pharmacist of 8+ years, who self-taught her way into tech in 2021 during the COVID pandemic. She's since built a varied career across the NHS, Accenture, the Financial Times, Gousto, and Monzo. In her spare time she documents her career-change journey on Substack (healthtotech.substack.com) and LinkedIn, partners with companies to help underrepresented groups build tech skills, and enjoys creating modern tech solutions for healthcare problems she lived through as a Pharmacist.
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🙋‍♀️ Want to help shape the future of Women Who Go (London)?
We're looking for enthusiastic new organisers to join our amazing team! If you're interested in getting involved, please reach out to one of the organisers or email london-organisers@womenwhogo.org - we'd love to hear from you! ✨

🗣️ Interested in speaking at one of our events?
Our Call for Papers is always open! Whether you're an experienced presenter or new to public speaking, we'd love to hear from you. Once you submit your idea, we’ll reach out to find a suitable time and help you to prepare your talk. 💪
Our meetup often features talks in three recurring themes:

• Deep dives into Go — advanced topics or lesser-known features of the language
• Project showcases — real-world applications and tools built with Go
• No-code reflections — insights on navigating life and work as a software engineer

Don’t worry if your talk doesn’t fit neatly into one of these categories — we’re always open to fresh ideas and new perspectives!

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🏡 Interested in hosting or supporting us? Please get in touch london-organisers@womenwhogo.org and we can discuss how you can get involved!

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📜 All Women Who Go events operate under the Go Community Code of Conduct - https://golang.org/conduct