Women In Technology Spotlight

Dianna Galarrager is a Business intelligence analyst at an internet brokerage company. Diana is from Spain and currently living in London. When Diana is not at work, her hobbies include traveling, learning about different cultures, and engaging in adventurous experiences, such as skydiving. She believes that her adventurous nature has a part to play in her daily job. As a business intelligence ana...

Meet Amanda who has been in the IT world for 20 years and presales for 15 years. Amanda is married to a Polish and has a 7-year-old child. As a sales engineer, she enjoys working with people and technology. In narration on what skill set she finds the most useful and she talked about communication, empathy, and listening skills. She highlighted that while it is very important to know about the tec...

Gessica Chies is a Principal Solution Consultant in Infor. Even though she doesn't have a technical background, she started her career in IT as a Marketing Intern at Microsoft while she was finishing her Bachelor's degree in Economics and made her way up by studying and challenging herself. She worked for some of the top IT companies: Oracle, Microsoft, Ingram Micro, VMWare, Mcafee, and finally In...

Gessica Chies is a Principal Solution Consultant in Infor. Even though she doesn't have a technical background, she started her career in IT as a Marketing Intern at Microsoft while she was finishing her Bachelor's degree in Economics and made her way up by studying and challenging herself. She worked for some of the top IT companies: Oracle, Microsoft, Ingram Micro, VMWare, Mcafee, and finally In...

Meet Pretty Kubyane Co-Founder of Coronet Blockchain, Director of Iconic Wigs, and inspirational Conference Speaker. Pretty's business experiences date back to her days in the village, where from the age of 6 she worked in her family's business. Her father owned a car repair workshop and wood cutting businesses. Prior to co-founding Coronet Blockchain in 2019, she worked in management consulting,...

Uta Haller joined VMware 7 years ago and is responsible for Partner Go-To-Market for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) in EMEA. In her role, she is responsible for the development and execution of the channel strategy, initiatives, sales plays and enablement to help partners position HCI as part of their customer's digital transformation journey. Prior to this role, she was the SDDC Partner Lead...

Chioma Nzekwe is PMP Certified Project Manager and Tech Professional with more than 10 years of experience in different IT companies. She is currently working with SAP Germany and serving as a Senior Technical Consultant. She is passionate about telling stories (her truth) to empower and educate. She uses personal essays and blog posts to communicate with her network and followers. Her writing is...

Liesel Klokkers who works as presales engineer at Salesforce, Germany is the mother of three children. Apart from being a woman in tech, she also loves reading and taking walks to observe nature. She leads a team of 35 presales engineers and she strongly believes in facilitating the development of her team even if it means that they move away, which she calls natural. She studied computer science...

Dola Akinduro is a senior manager with over 10 years of experience in the tech industry. She currently works at HubSpot where she leads a team of PreSales Solutions Engineers across EMEA. Dola is passionate about all things PreSales and is an advocate of DEI in the workplace. Proudly Nigerian by birth and Danish by choice, she has lived and worked in Denmark most of her life and now lives in Hambu...

Meet Emma Rosell Chief Technology Officer at NetClean. Emma lives in Gotenburg in Sweden with her husband and her 2 kids. In her free time, she enjoys being active in skiing and climbing. Emma came in contact with tech as a child. Her best friend's father worked from home on one of the early Apple computers. He allowed her and her friend to borrow it to play games. Emma believes that this early i...

Lidia is currently a Specialist Solutions Engineer for the Network and Security Business Unit in the UK, where she's responsible for the Healthcare sector. She has been in this role for almost 2 years now, with a background in Network Engineering. She's incredibly passionate about making technology and technical careers approachable and accessible by sharing her own experiences. She's also an advo...

Birgit was born in South Germany and now lives in North Germany, She started out with being a bank clerk to some other companies including Microsoft and VMware where she currently works, Brigit has no university degree but believes and participates in lifelong learning through various other platforms to acquire the relevant skills that she needs to build her career. She also discusses how the priv...

Pearl Oguchi is currently a Quality Assurance Engineering Lead at Meta (Facebook). Pearl started out in the tech industry as a junior tester in 2007 and has since worked for numerous tech companies, from startups to multinationals. On the side, she works as a local councilor for Dacorum Borough in Hemel Hempstead. She's also a wife and mother and lives with her husband, their three children and th...

Surbhi Sharma is originally from India. She moved to Germany a little over 5.5 years ago. Since she was born and raised in India, her education and professional life have given her the opportunity to gain experience in both countries. Surbhi is a Solution Engineer at VMware, which means she's the pre-sales technical contact for her customers. She loves working in the tech industry because she beli...

Amanda Blevins is a Sr. Director and Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO at VMware. She enables customers and partners to achieve their business objectives by co-creating a comprehensive technology strategy with executive leaders. She focuses on cloud, edge, and emerging technologies. Amanda collaborates with VMware’s R&D business units to ensure VMware’s portfolio meets the strategic...

Chahak Mittal is a Cybersecurity Professional. She has been a STEM student at Eastern Michigan University where she completed her second Master in Cybersecurity. Her previous education is from Thapar University, India. Apart from being a GRC Analyst and working with Internal SOX Audits, Cybersecurity Training and Awareness is her passion. Chahak is a journal reviewer for IEEE Access as well as Sci...

Dr. Dora Dzvonyar was born in Hungary and has moved with her parents to Germany since she was six. She currently works as a science & tech communicator, and cofounded tedXTUM (Technical university of Munich). She had always wanted to be in the computer science field, and had her dad who was a computer scientist as a sort of role model. Despite her sure love for the field, it got overwhelming a...

Karin Brunotte works as a Technical Account Manager at VMware. Karin started her very early career with a three-year technical education in Germany in the automotive industry. She quickly changed to the IT industry after realizing that this technical field was more open to welcoming young and female professionals. She started as a junior consultant for a German IT service provider and gained profo...

Meet Solange Abou Nasr is who is a Strategic Account Manager at VMware. She is an Advocate of “Life Balance”; Solange is Married, a mother of 3 young children and is passionate about banking and financial services. While trying to get into the business world from the early age of 9, Solange climbed her way step by step until she found her passion in the banking ecosystem. Grabbing her calling, thi...

Happy New Year. We're starting of season 2 with Lynsey Campbell Lynsey is currently Director of Customer Success EMEA for the Tanzu Business Unit based in Glasgow. She's a working mum with a passion for technology and organizational transformation. Lynsey is Interested in how people and workforces respond to change, and how technology can be a force for good in the world. She's also very actively...

Mansi is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), one of India's leading institutes. She started her career at Visa as an intern in her final year before graduation. She worked as a software developer for Visa's internet portal for 3 years, catering to the needs of over 25,000 employees. As a developer, she understood only one aspect of a product: how to create it. But she wanted to...

Hazel Reambillo leads the Digital Marketing and Creatives team for the fast-growing MKAI Inclusive Artificial Intelligence Community. As a recognized Role Model and Modern Leader for #WomeninAI and #Womenintech, she successfully balances bringing up a family and driving forward the digital marketing strategy for the Artificial Intelligence Community.

Michelle Goossens is a 19-year-old transgender woman from The Netherlands. Unable to go to school, Michelle focuses on teaching herself the knowledge she wants for any possible future jobs. Armed with her three-node homelab she teaches herself different technologies and tries to pass this knowledge on through her blog posts. Along with this, she also posts her gender transition journey on her blog...

Nathalie is currently a part-time intern in Core Solution Engineering at VMware, while also working towards completing her master’s degree in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich. Before entering the world of technology, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Media Management with a focus on journalism and project management. She is passionate about sharing her experiences and empow...

Sara Puppis is a Business Development Manager/Channel and Partner Strategist at Lenovo. Sara is a learn-it-all person with a growth mindset. She spent +15 years as a professional volleyball player and this experience deeply shaped her professional journey. Graduated in Foreign Languages and Communications, she has been working in many technology multinationals in the areas of cybersecurity, Financ...