Meet with Companies

Cafecito with Yelp

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We connected with Yelp over coffee and conversations.

⭐ Yelp, the company that connects people to great local businesses, continuously strives to improve its products and work culture. During this interactive event, attendees met current Yelp employees, gained insight into Yelp’s inclusive culture, learned about Yelp employee resources (e.g. SomosYelp) and what it’s like to work in a remote-first environment.

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➕ Attendees built new relationships, grew their network, raised their profile in the community, and…

☕ Attendees (limited number) received a voucher for a complimentary coffee to enjoy during the event.

Agenda:

10:00 AM MT - PowerToFly Kickoff
10:05 AM MT - Welcome & Keynote Address from Joel Salas, Director, Engineering (United States)
10:15 AM MT - Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A featuring:
10:55 AM MT - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
11:00 AM MT - Networking Sessions
11:30 AM MT - Event Concludes

About Yelp: Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.

About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run platform that works with companies to identify skilled professionals for networking and recruiting opportunities. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,500+ events across the world with brands like Meta, Salesforce, Deloitte, and American Express, resulting in countless hires.

About PowerToFly’s Events: All RSVP’d attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require assistance participating in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.

Meet The Speakers

Joel Salas

Director, Engineering

Joel is the Director of Engineering for Yelp’s Compute Platform group, which is responsible for enabling developers at Yelp to run their software products in Yelp’s infrastructure.. Before Yelp, Joel led the Platform team at NordstromRack.com in Los Angeles. Joel grew up in Chula Vista, CA and now lives in Oakland with his partner Esther and their goldendoodle Zoey.

Roxana Anabel Lafuente

Full Stack Software Engineer

Roxana is a software engineer, she has been working at Yelp for almost two years for the Biz MultiLoc Attribution team. During this time, she has helped Yelp customers better understand their return on investment when investing in Yelp ads. Prior to joining Yelp, Roxana worked for Booking.com and also as a contractor for Electronic Arts and Intel. She grew up in Ushuaia, Argentina. She received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina. Roxana is currently based in Hamburg, Germany. She enjoys traveling and doing outdoor activities in her free time.

Julio César Barrera Olivera

iOS Developer — Services Trust

Julio is a software engineer currently working in iOS for the Services Trust team, which is the team responsible for providing trust and protection so users feel safe when hiring service professionals on Yelp by giving users a money back guarantee with Yelp Guaranteed. He used to be a middle and high school ICT teacher when he decided to change to software development. He’s from Mexico City and currently living in Tijuana.