Women Who Code Boulder/Denver and Gusto are excited to showcase this group of awesome engineers! Come join your fellow engineers for a series of lightning talks at Gusto’s office on 16th Street Mall in Denver (or join remotely). All are welcome.
Speakers:
- Alyssa Hester - Flexibly modeling result types in GraphQL
- Orsolya Lukacs - From Tourists to Locals: Onboarding Engineers into a New Codebase
- Sami Austin - Digital Accessibility
- Sheryl - Navigating Imposter Syndrome
- Karin Ohman - Have a Spatial Day: Incorporating - Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis into your application
- Amy Lai - The Weirdest Bug I've Seen Yet
- Light snacks and beverages will be provided.
Joining in person: 1201 16th St Mall #350, Denver, CO 80202
The Gusto office is located at 16th St. and Lawrence between the Tabor Center and the Clock Tower.
Transportation:
Parking can be found at the Tabor Center (1200 17th St., Denver 80202) via ParkChirp for around $5. Street parking is limited. Public transit is also convenient to the office -- from Union Station, take the Free Mall Ride (~4 mins, 5 stops) to 16th Street Mall & Lawrence. Plan accordingly for downtown traffic.
Joining remotely: we will update the event with a Gatheround link the day before the event.
Agenda
5:00 - Doors open
5:30 - Mix and mingle
5:50 - Welcome and introductions
6:00 - Lightning Talks
7:15 - Event Ends
Learn more about our speakers:
Alyssa is a Full Stack Engineer at Gusto on the Financial Products team. She has been building web applications and consulting on them for ten years. Beyond supporting Gusto Wallet, Alyssa spends her time exploring the Colorado outdoors, traveling for friends and food, and cuddling her pups.
Orsi is a Software Engineer on the Growth team at Gusto. Recently, she has been modernizing legacy tech stacks and working with Next.js. Outside of work, Orsi likes to read, play board games and hike.
Sami Austin (he/they) is an artist, library super fan, and senior software engineer at Etsy. He's been coding for over four years remotely from their home in Denver, CO where he lives with his partner, two dogs, and one very loud cat. For the past two years, they've been learning everything they can about digital accessibility and cannot wait to rage against the ableism machine with the Gusto crew!
Sheryl has been a software engineer at Name.com for 2 years, and she recently helped launch a redesign of Name.com using Vue and Typescript. Before becoming a software engineer, Sheryl worked as a wine chemist, a software engineering recruiter, and a yoga teacher. Outside of work, Sheryl loves telling her cats how cute they are and traveling to as many places in the world as she can.
As an earth scientist turned software engineer, Karin is passionate about building software to better understand and combat the effects of climate change. She recently started at Project Canary, working to build new products to help utility companies better detect greenhouse gas emissions due to leaks in their infrastructure. In her free time, Karin enjoys running in Wash Park and camping trips with her family.
Amy is a Payroll Engineer at Gusto who fell in love with coding for the fun of solving toy problems, and now loves it for the gratification of solving real problems. In a previous life, she was a pharmaceutical chemist, an English teacher, and a candlemaker.
