At ELEVATE, Sukrutha Bhadouria (Director of Engineering, Salesforce) explains the importance of knowing about system design even if you're not coding, and shares practical tips that help you feel more confident during your next system design interview.

Sukrutha Bhadouria, Director of Engineering at Salesforce, Elaine Zhou, CTO at Change.org, Tina Huang, CTO & Founder at Transposit, Rachana Kumar, VP of Engineering at Etsy discuss building high-performance teams in a pandemic.

Envoy hosts a Girl Geek Dinner on October 11, 2017 in San Francisco, California.

Girl Geek X CTO and Salesforce Senior Engineering Manager Sukrutha Bhadouria talks about career pivots. She has worked in tech for almost 15 years now - working in quality, as a developer, front-end engineer, full-stack engineer - and jumped to engineering management more recently.

Jenn Clevenger (Etsy Senior Director of Engineering), Kamilah Taylor (Gusto Head of Financial Products Engineering), Sukrutha Bhadouria (Salesforce Director of Engineering) and Willie Hooykaas-Baldwin (Salesforce VP of Engineering) discuss all things engineering leadership. Learn why they got into management, their favorite parts of their jobs, and how they each work to ensure a sense of fairness, inclusion, and diversity within their teams while also building a culture of psychological safety. They'll discuss the importance of sponsorship, mentoring & growing your personal network and share tips for building a network and nurturing those relationships. They'll also tackle subjects like coping with mounting responsibilities, learning how and when to ask for help, hiring to backfill your weaknesses, recognizing when it's time to change your leadership style, and some of their proudest accomplishments!