Tech Heroes

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Ted Drake, Sagar Barbhaya and Reuben Evans, Global Accessibility Leaders at Intuit. Host Aliza Carpio leads this group of technologists in a discussion on accessibility in software experiences, their roles as accessibility leaders and champions within Intuit, and how they work with technologists around the globe to teach and inspire them to create accessible and inclusive experiences and solutions for Intuit’s customers.

For a link to the full transcript, visit: http://bit.ly/acesspod

Cat De Roure is Senior Software Engineer formerly out of Intuit London and now currently residing in the Bay Area. Prior to working at Intuit, she worked as an engineer at several startup companies. In this episode, she shares how her involvement in women in tech initiatives inspires her and her teammates. Cat leads and coordinates the Code First Girls partnership with Intuit, an 8 week course where women, young and old, learn software engineering skills and have the opportunity to shadow engineers at Intuit. Please note this is a previously recorded episode.

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Shir Meir Lador, Data Science Group Manager at Intuit. She shares her journey from flight instructor in the Israeli Airforce to a global innovator in the data science community - a path fueled by twin passions for math and leadership. Listen to hear her story and be sure to join Intuit at the Women in Data Science (WiDS) 2021 virtual conference, where Shir will moderate an Ethics and Responsible Data Science panel.

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This episode of Tech Heroes is special as February is both Black History Month and Open Source Month! We are featuring four Intuit technologists who are passionate about open source and are the maintainers of the set of Argo open source projects.

The Argo Project is an Intuit open source initiative that’s gathered significant momentum with developers for building cloud native applications on Kubernetes.

Today, Intuit financial products and services (TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint) are built and run on a modern development platform built on containers and Kubernetes. While building our platform, we noticed – and set out to address – gaps by creating several open source projects.

That’s how the Argo Project was born.

This set of Kubernetes-native tools is for deploying and running jobs and applications, encompassing four independent projects maintained by Intuit developers:

Two of them, Argo Workflows and Argo Events, are focused on MLOps, helping companies make machine learning production-ready.

For teams using Kubernetes and containers to build and run cloud-native applications, Argo CD and Argo Rollouts help in automating deployments with GitOps.

These tools can be used independently, but they are even more powerful when used together.

So far, 240+ end user companies are using and contributing to it. And, we’re proud that the project has over 10,000 stars, 500 contributors, 4,600 commits, 250 releases!

To learn more and join the movement, check out the following links:

Argo Project on GitHub – https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/604/files

Argo Project Accepted as Incubator Project by CNCF – https://www.intuit.com/blog/technology/cloud-native-computing-foundation-accepts-argo-as-an-incubator-project/?search_term=argo+project

Argo Project Intro Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46asNhti0zo&feature=youtu.be

Saurabh Saxena is Vice President of Product Development at Intuit. Twelve years ago, he started his career journey at Intuit as Principal Engineer. Prior to Intuit, he was Engineering Manager at Intel and was Rewards Project Manager at Capital One. In this episode, we’ll hear about the path that led him to senior leadership, get his advice for early career engineers and discuss the importance of diversity in teams.

Rahul Goyal is VP of Development in the Consumer Group at Intuit India. He is author of the book "Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a Successful Manager in the IT & Knowledge Industry" available on Amazon. In this episode, we’ll chat with Rahul about his insights and lessons learned leading teams strategically - goals and outcome oriented. *Please note this podcast was recorded pre-COVID.

Preethi Gurusmawy is an Engineering Leader at Intuit based out of India. She is also Lean In Regional leader and was founder and president of Lean In Women in Tech India. As a regional leader, she supports a large network of women and men dedicated to gender equality - organizing events, trainings and networking sessions, and partnering with the LeanIn.Org team to grow and engage the Lean In community. She is a mentor to many technologists and a personal hero of Aliza's!

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Caroline Shouraboura, engineer on one of Intuit’s security teams called Dev Security Operations. Caroline shares her career journey as an engineer and how she fell into the security space, plus her perspective on why security is an exciting discipline for students and professionals alike. In honor of Cyber Security Awareness Month, Caroline and Aliza discuss securability as one of the “-illities” that all software engineers and developers should know. #BeCyberSmart

In celebration of Hacktoberfest, Tech Heroes podcast features five technologists at Intuit who are passionate about open source software and the global open source community. Adam Dierkens, Andrew Lisowski, Kendall Gassner, Rocio Montes and Tyler Krupicka share how they are planning to celebrate Hacktoberfest and encourage the community to join the month-long movement of contribution, collaboration and sharing to help the entire tech community advance and innovate. Intuit will be celebrating open source software this month with virtual meetups, prizes and more! Learn more and get involved: bit.ly/intuhacktoberfest20

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Janani Kalyanam, Senior Data Scientist in the Intuit AI organization. In this episode, Janani shares her perspective on the Data Scientist role in tech, as well as her career journey with tips along the way. She discusses the transformation of her mindset in order to own her voice and take her seat at the table alongside other technologists and colleagues.