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Making a Positive Impact Through Technology

Pavithra Vetriselvan Lead Engineer, MongoDB
December 16, 2021 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
Making a Positive Impact Through Technology

About this session

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

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.

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