WEST and ChickTech are pleased to present:
Impact Your Career Through Mentorship
Since 2016, WEST has helped over 200 women navigate and grow their careers by pairing them with high caliber mentors from across the industry. In this panel, former WEST mentees will discuss their mentorship experiences. They will share how their mentor helped them grow their careers in technical roles by developing horizontal skills such as communication, strategic thinking, personal brand, and leadership. The panel will discuss the active role they played as mentees in driving the relationship with their mentors as well as tips for how to get the most out of mentorship. From the panel you will learn the value of having a great mentor and how to leverage mentorship to propel your career forward, no matter how far along you are already!
June 22, 2020
4:00-5:30pm PT
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Panelists:
Viola Olayinka - Product Operations Manager at Twilio
Janet Sun - Software Engineer at DoorDash
Janet is a software engineer on the DoorDash Logistics team solving scalability and efficiency problems. She was previously a Director of Software at Chargepoint and has worked for over 20 years in mobile software and services at companies like Motorola and Danger. Janet was also once a coffee Q-grader and one of the founders of a sustainable farming initiative to produce coffee as a means to provide for impoverished farmers.
Zorah Fung - Senior Software Engineer at Sift
Zorah is a full stack senior software engineer at Sift, a Digital Trust & Safety startup that uses machine learning to help online businesses prevent fraud and abuse. She also teaches computer science courses part time at the University of Washington, and formerly taught their introductory programming series. In her free time (while not in quarantine) she enjoys cooking, running, weight lifting, playing piano and throwing pottery.
Anagha Todalbagi - Senior Software Engineer at Duetto
Anagha Todalbagi is a senior software engineer at Duetto in San Francisco. She enjoys building things and her hobbies include calligraphy and improv.
Holly Jin - Head of Engineering Operations at DoorDash
Moderator:
Heidi Williams, WEST Founder
Heidi is Founder of WEST, a cross-company mentorship program for mid-career women in tech. Most recently she was CTO & Co-Founder of tEQuitable, a platform to address bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. Before that, she spent 4 years at Box as VP of Platform Engineering and 17 years at Adobe in a variety of engineering, product, and partner roles including working on Dreamweaver 1.0. She also serves as a technical advisor for PaymentWorks, Raise For Good, CaregivingHQ, GenerationTitans, and has been a mentor for several FastForward Accelerator tech non-profits. Heidi has a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University and attended the Stanford Executive Institute in 2008.