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Start a Five-Star Career at Yelp
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Hey you, meet Yelp.

🗓️ You’re invited to check out our networking event with Yelp’s technology sector, the engineering & data leaders behind Yelp.

🎙️ Hear the honest take on Yelp’s work culture, robust benefits, upcoming projects, and more—all from the perspective of their tech leaders.

📈 Plus, we scored the panel’s best career advice and tips for elevating your tech career.

Agenda:
  • 11:30 AM ET / 4:30 PM GMT - PowerToFly Kickoff
  • 11:35 AM ET / 4:35 PM GMT - Welcome & Keynote Address from Ana Alvarado-Virag, Engineering Manager
  • 11:45 AM ET / 4:45 PM GMT - Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A featuring:
  • 12:25 PM ET / 5:25 PM GMT - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
  • 12:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM GMT - Breakout Sessions
  • 1:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM GMT - 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 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Facebook, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, 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 to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.

→ PowerToFly cannot admit outside recruiters to this event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.


Meet The Speakers

Ana Alvarado-Virag
Ana Alvarado-Virag
Engineering Manager

Ana joined Yelp as Engineering Manager in January 2021. Previously, Ana held various engineering positions at Booking.com and made stops at Predictvia and Oracle.

Dona Abou-Younes
Dona Abou-Younes
Engineering Manager

Dona Abou-Younes is an engineer manager on the Ad Campaign team, a team within the Marterking Engineering group. The team provides a backend solution to create & customize campaigns for on-Yelp advertisers' needs. Dona’s career started in 2000 as a software engineer in the telecom industry, then moved to different R&D roles and industries, and landed in 2021 with Yelp. Her passion is to lead & coach people, and her approach when building teams is setting a safe environment and a shared leadership model

Rob Fernandez
Rob Fernandez
Engineering Manager

Rob Fernandez is an engineering manager on the Compute Infrastructure Platform Experience team where he supports a team that provides the underlying platform and infrastructure to Yelp's developers so that they can focus on delivering value to users. Rob grew up in Montreal and spent the last 20 years working in the telecom industry, starting out as a systems integrator, growing into a solution architect, and finally making the jump into management and leadership. Rob is passionate about building teams that selflessly support one another and are empowered to succeed.