Can you introduce yourself? (career, school, personal life, etc. 3 - 6 sentences)

I’m a lifelong software engineer taking a sabbatical after 30 years. My last couple positions were as a principal software engineer, a software architect, and a software engineering manager. I’ve worked at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, ThoughtSpot, in research, in research software engineering, government, and at university. I’ve got a PhD in computer science in distributed virtual environments, emphasis “World of Warcraft.” For the last six years I’ve been spending a lot of time giving career advice on a ques

Can you introduce yourself? (career, school, personal life, etc. 2-4 sentences)

Can you introduce yourself? (career, school, personal life, etc. 3 - 6 sentences)

I am an Engineer currently building Responsible AI tools at Microsoft. I came to UC San Diego in 2017 as an international student from India, where I majored in Data Science, and explored internships & research from the Data Science and ML Engineering lenses. Outside work, I’m quite passionate about mentoring college students and early-in-career folks (via 1:1s and public engagements) to navigate the tech industry, and navigating the professional environment as an international candidate. In my free time, I love

Can you introduce yourself? (career, school, personal life, etc. 3 - 6 sentences)

I am currently an embedded engineer at Amazon Lab126, although my official title is Software Development Engineer. I am one of the lucky few who had the opportunity to work on and ship Astro, Amazon's first household robot. I'm still early in my career and am excited to see what opportunities lie ahead. I didn’t start programming until my freshman year in college. A classmate on my dorm floor was a Computer Science major; he recommended that I sign up for our Intro to Java course. It was a rough first few weeks and I s

Can you introduce yourself? (career, school, personal life, etc. 3 - 6 sentences)

I’m a senior machine learning engineer and ML tech lead at PathAI. I currently work on solving exciting ML problems in the area of drug development and diagnostics through computational pathology.

Before this, I was in graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in computer vision. Back in those days, I was working with Amazon’s Astro team on their home robot on the problem of SLAM (how a robot localizes itself in a new environment and how it constructs a map to navigate). I also spent some time o

Can you introduce yourself? (career, school, personal life, etc. 2-4 sentences)

Hello, my name is Priyanka. I am a Director of Engineering for Platform services at Flexera. I have completed my Masters in Computer Science from USC. I have two kids, 6 years and 5 months apart, and those two are my primary and more important responsibilities. We live in Carpinteria, California which is known for its safe beaches and surfing. I love the smell of books, the rain and my babies :D

What do you do as a director of technology a