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Making a Positive Impact Through Technology
Pavithra Vetriselvan
We’re all familiar with the positive impacts technology has on inclusivity, but we’ve still got a ways to go to ensure tech is inclusive through and through—from coding to product.
For example, traces of problematic language can be found in certain engineering and coding terms like...
We’re all familiar with the positive impacts technology has on inclusivity, but we’ve still got a ways to go to ensure tech is inclusive through and through—from coding to product.
For example, traces of problematic language can be found in certain engineering and coding terms like “master” and “slave” or “whitelist” and “blacklist.”
Pavithra Vetriselvan, Lead of Engineering at MongoDB, spearheaded a project at her company to remove terms that could be considered offensive and replace them with more neutral language, and is looking for more ways to create impact with her tech background.
Pavithra will be joining us to share her experience leading this project and advice for taking on tech projects that have true impact.
In this chat, you’ll learn:
- How to identify areas for improvement and ways to approach a tech dev projects holistically
- The soft skills needed to successfully lead tech projects that create impact
- Ways to ensure your efforts aren’t performative and make continual impact
Meet The Speaker
Pavithra Vetriselvan
Lead Engineer, MongoDB
Pavi is currently a Lead Engineer at MongoDB after having started as a new grad in 2017. She spent 4 years on the Replication Team solving complex distributed systems problems and brought those skills to another core component of the distributed database, the Execution Team. This time, as a lead. Her communication, mentorship, and project management skills have regularly been lauded by her peers and will continue to serve her throughout her career at MongoDB.
Q&A
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How do I get a remote job with Disney
Posted on 2021-12-16 -
What are some signs your technological choices are doing more harm than good?
Posted on 2021-12-16 -
How to spot the central technology that is used in those companies quickly?
Posted on 2021-12-16 -
Is there one small change that you've made or seen happen which had an outsized impact on your organization?
Posted on 2021-12-16 -
What is the best thing you've added/ prioritize in your workflow?
Posted on 2021-12-15 -
What technologies would you recommend for people within the insurance industry?
Posted on 2021-12-15 -
Is it necessary to have open source contributions to have a bigger impact
Posted on 2021-12-15 -
What technologies would you recommend for persons in academia in relation to making impact in the industry?
Posted on 2021-12-15 -
How can you include non millennials in such initiative whose experiences are core Engineering ?
Posted on 2021-12-14 -
What are some tips to land a tech job when having no experience?
Posted on 2021-12-14 -
what/how I can manage myself when confronting not easy to solve problems especially the deadline is approaching?
Posted on 2021-12-14 -
What are the minimum and maximum usage that should be considered when you are starting from scratch?
Posted on 2021-12-13 -
How to transfer a business idea to reality.
Posted on 2021-12-12 -
What's the prospects of content writing?
Posted on 2021-12-12 -
In what ways has the platforming of online education taken into account socio-economic differences between learners?
Posted on 2021-12-12 -
What's is the best advice for women to start in any area in tech?
Posted on 2021-12-10 -
What matter most for every person in the world wether who is poor or rich so how we can tackle this in the sense of economically, socially, personally and professionally? How many rare minds in...
Posted on 2021-12-10 -
How do I boost my confidence when I haven't worked in any particular technology, to face the interview?
Posted on 2021-12-10 -
Is this opportunity for individuals for all walks of life?
Posted on 2021-12-09 -
How do you move from a software engineer role to a senior software engineer role, especially in a large company where your impact might not be that evident.
Posted on 2021-12-09 -
How can I take my fear away from technology-based projects!
Posted on 2021-12-09 -
I see you take a role in several organizations and companies... How do you keep the success for all of them at the same time ?
Posted on 2021-12-09 -
How do you assess if the change is eventually positive? How to measure "success" of positive impact of technology?
Posted on 2021-12-06
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