Strategies to Overcome Biases - Special Panel & Networking for Women Engineering Leaders with SheTO

Leslie is the Director of Engineering for the Compute Platform at Fastly. Throughout her career, Leslie has worked at companies as small as Pando to as large as Google. While her heart is always in the infrastructure space, she's led teams up and down the stack, from SRE to Accessibility

Rajashree is the VP of Engineering for Twilio Flex - the world's most flexible customer engagement platform, that powers customer facing sales and service teams with the context, data, and channel flexibility they need to turn ordinary conversations into opportunities to drive repeat sales.

Previously, Rajashree led product development at Quizlet - the popular student application that helps over 60 million learners worldwide every month study, practice and become an expert in whatever they are learning. Prior to Quizlet, Rajashree led engineering for Intuit’s 3rd party Developer Platform and app store – enabling a thriving ecosystem of thousands of small business applications that connect to Intuit’s QuickBooks Platform. Prior to Intuit, she held several engineering leadership roles at PayPal building innovative global payment products for consumers and merchants. Rajashree started her career at Intel as a design engineer and subsequently worked on industry changing software solutions for semiconductor chip design at Synopsys.

Rajashree is passionate about building purpose-driven teams that exhibit engineering excellence, customer-first thinking and an inclusive culture. She is a strong advocate for women and under-represented minorities in technology; and takes a personal interest in coaching and mentoring talent at all levels to balance the playing field and help them grow in their careers.

Rajashree received a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Nandini Easwar is the CTO and Co-Founder of HRACUITY who led her company through an acquisition in Nov 2022. At Speakfully, she was responsible for the product and tech side of the human-centric SaaS platform to address workplace mistreatment including retaliation, harassment, and microaggression. Known for humanizing tech solutions, Nandini ensured the success of the Speakfully mission by integrating social and emotional intelligence into the overall product roadmap of the brand. Prior to joining Speakfully, Nandini was the Global Head of Engineering at Esurance and led the engineering function through the acquisition of Esurance by Allstate in 2012. Nandini is now VP, Engineering at HR Acuity, the acquiring company of her startup Speakfully. She currently also serves as a Board Member at SheTO.org, an organization whose mission is to increase the 9% representation of women+ in engineering leadership. She is a technical advisor at Intelliswift, Good4Work, Fikia and is a founding member at FirstBoard.io, working on increasing representation of women on corporate boards. A passionate proponent of women in STEM, Nandini was invited to a special White House briefing where she expressed her support for SheTO. She supports access to diverse talents while enabling women to grow and learn to their fullest potential. Nandini holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and holds a certificate on Executive Leadership from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She speaks about equity and equality of women in tech and has been featured in many articles including Medium. Her startup Speakfully was named the top 20 startups to watch for in 2022 and 2019.