Find Your Place in GitHub: Hiring Event
Come visualize your future at GitHub. 🎉 We hosted a networking & hiring event with GitHub, the developer company. 🗓️ GitHub team members joined us for an interactive event to deliver valuable insight into their culture and teams. Agenda: 12:00 PM ET/ 9:00 AM PT - PowerToFly Kickoff 12:05 PM ET / 9:05 AM PT - Welcome…
About this event
Come visualize your future at GitHub.
🎉 We hosted a networking & hiring event with GitHub, the developer company.
🗓️ GitHub team members joined us for an interactive event to deliver valuable insight into their culture and teams.
Agenda:
- 12:00 PM ET/ 9:00 AM PT - PowerToFly Kickoff
- 12:05 PM ET / 9:05 AM PT - Welcome Address from Rachel Potvin, VP of Engineering, Data, Security and Productivity
- 12:15 PM ET / 9:15 AM PT - Tech Talk from Cory Wilkerson, VP of Engineering
- 12:25 PM ET / 9:25 AM PT - Panel Discussion + Audience Q&A featuring:
- Liz Saling, Director, Software Engineering
- Jacob DePriest, VP, Security Operations
- Shruti Corbett, Manager, Software Engineering
- 12:55 PM ET / 9:55 AM PT - Closing Remarks
- 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT - Optional Networking Sessions
- 1:30 PM ET / 10:30 AM PT - Event Concludes
About GitHub: GitHub is the developer company. They make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. They foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
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, Slack, Microsoft, and Spotify, 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.
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Where you could fit in
The team is actively hiring. Here are a few open roles this event is built around.
Meet the speakers
Rachel Potvin
VP of Engineering, Data, Security and Productivity
Rachel is an engineering executive with 20+ years of experience working in the technology sector. As VP of Engineering at GitHub, she leads teams working on everything from systems and research to developing leading technology.
Before GitHub, Rachel worked at Google for 11 years. There, she ran the Google Cloud Insights organization, responsible for managing and building products based on Google Cloud's customer and product data. Prior to that, she managed Google’s DevOps teams focused on source control and workflow management.
Rachel has spent the majority of her career working on developer-focused infrastructure. She's passionate about building and investing in systems that make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, solve challenging problems, and create the world’s most important technologies.
Originally from Ottawa and Montreal, Canada, Rachel enjoys hiking, running, cooking, and building things with my kids.
Liz Saling
Director, Software Engineering
Liz is an IT professional passionate about transforming the efficiency of the business, the technology it uses, and building strong teams. She tackles opportunities comprehensively, looking at why along with how, engaging resources and exploring alternatives, and driving scale and consistency. Her experience includes Agile and DevOps initiatives, Cloud transformations, and business process re-engineering, and she has a strong background in database administration, application development, and systems and configuration management. Previous roles include managing global engineering teams, consulting, technical training, and community outreach.
Liz joined the GitHub team in 2018.
Jacob DePriest
VP, Security Operations
Shruti Corbett
Manager, Software Engineering
For over 20 years, Shruti worked with the brightest minds developing and pushing industry-leading technology forward. In her 20+ years at IBM, she contributed to many of the “firsts” for the company, such as the development of Watson, the first conversational AI platform for business run by deep machine learning.
As a versatile and trusted director of innovation, Shruti combines the ability to manage energetic teams with well-rounded financial, operations, life-cycle, and program management experience. Her goals are to recruit strong, cross-functional people, facilitate effective collaboration, and guide them to autonomy. In her day-to-day work, she's always seeking and acting on opportunities to streamline processes, customize technology tools, and add value to products and services. She's harnessed her executive certified Project management credentials (IBM and PMI) to drive continuous improvement measures and lead program teams to success within strict budget and schedule constraints. Shruti has impacted GitHub teams since 2021.
Cory Wilkerson
VP of Engineering
Cory has been impacting the GitHub team for over five years now. As an Engineering advocate and catalyst, Cory builds, grows, and leads Engineering Teams. He's intrigued by building something from the ground up, by building a startup in the walls of a traditional mid-to-large size organization, and revitalizing/rehabbing teams that have lost their way. Cory believes that culture and connectedness are essential components of a healthy organization.
Cory is aspirational and practical; years of experience have shown him that people can grow while being proud of where they're at. He believes that an organization's greatest opportunity for differentiation is in the people they hire and the degree to which they encourage autonomy and action.
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About GitHub
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Why You Should Join
At GitHub, we create the space for you to perform at your best, as part of a global, interconnected community of Hubbers. We offer remote work, competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and overall top-notch benefits to support you, wherever you are. We know that humans flourish when they work on their own terms and embrace their uniqueness.
Our Leadership Principles
- Customer Obsessed
- Trust by Default
- Ship to Learn
- Own the Outcome
- Growth Mindset
- Global Product, Global Team
- Anything is Possible
- Practice Kindness
Benefits & Perks
We are committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
- A diverse and inclusive workplace
At GitHub, we think that a diverse company is a strong company, and we work hard to foster a supportive and welcoming workplace. Learn more about our commitment to diversity.
- Work happier
Build amazing things with a balance of autonomy and collaborative teamwork. Set your own work schedule and make use of a flexible PTO plan when you need to recharge.
- Lead from any location
GitHub is a remote-first company with offices located throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Whether you live near an office or not, GitHub believes you can do your best work wherever you are. You will receive annual reimbursements to outfit your home office and ensure you have what you need so you are set up to do your best work.
- Put your health and family first
Employees in the United States enjoy 100% coverage of health insurance premiums across our medical, dental, and vision plan offerings, including coverage for dependents. We also offer five months of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the baby’s first year.
- Lead a balanced life
GitHub provides an annual Wellness and Lifestyle reimbursement designed to cover anything from gym memberships, massage, meditation apps, tax prep and financial wellness services, and even petcare.
- Invest in your future
At GitHub, you’ll have a stake in the future success of our platform with equity grants. For full-time employees in the United States, we offer competitive 401k planning with a 50% company match up to the IRS 402(g) annual limit.
- Keep growing
Learn how you learn best. From books to conferences, you’ll get a yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals.
- Give back to your community
We believe in sharing our time, resources, and products to contribute to positive social impact. GitHub matches charitable donations up to $15,000 per calendar year. And for each hour (up to 40 hours) of volunteering per year, you will receive $20 to donate to an organization of your choice.
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