Infra Roundtable with special guests :)

Let's start 2021 with a hang out hour to catch up with fellow awesome women in infra! Our goal is to provide a space for folks to get to know each other, network, and learn from experts in the group. Depending on interests, we can break out into small groups on different topics, moderated by our hosts.

For our first roundtable, we're excited to be joined by:

Uma Chingunde, VP of Engineering at Render
Uma heads engineering at Render and until recently led the Compute team at Stripe that supported the internal compute platform within Stripe’s Infrastructure organization. Prior to Stripe, she was an engineering leader at Delphix and VMware.

Melanie Cebula, Staff Engineer at Airbnb
Melanie Cebula is an expert in Cloud Infrastructure, where she is recognized worldwide for explaining radically new ways of thinking about cloud efficiency and usability. She is an international keynote speaker, presenting complex technical topics to a broad range of audiences, both international and domestic. Melanie is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has experience building a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud-native technologies.

Caitlin Colgrove, CTO of Hex
Caitlin Colgrove is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hex, which empowers data scientists to transform notebooks into collaborative, interactive data apps and stories. Previously, Caitlin was the Director of Engineering at Remix and a Software Engineering Group Lead at Palantir. Caitlin holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Sachi Shah, Senior PM at Lightstep
Sachi Shah is a Senior Product Manager at Lightstep. Previously, Sachi was a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead at Palantir and a Software Engineer at Scribd. Sachi holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Math from Wellesley College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Please submit or vote for any discussion topics you're interested in at this Slido (https://app.sli.do/event/xxm0tast/live/ideas). During the event, you'll be able to choose your breakout group based on themes, and our guest moderators will use the Slido ideas to guide the discussion.

This is hopefully the first of a new series of virtual informal events. We'd love to experiment with different virtual formats. If you'd like to help host, please join this event and speak with us! This event is for you if you identify as a women, genderqueer or non-binary, and are interested in infrastructure.