After recognising the growth of the Women in DevOps community across Los Angeles, we chose the city as our next hub! We were excited to debut with a brand-new community series in LA on 11/21, complete with an incredible lineup of speakers and a healthy mixture of tech talks and panel discussions. We'd like to say a huge thank you to Google for hosting us, and to everyone who joined us at Google’s Venice HQ for what was an incredible night, and not just because of the cocktails and nibbles.
Our panel included:
Moran Rubanenko @ Google
Bhavini Soneji @ Headspace
Marcus Mitchell @ Google
Avani Patel @ Cornerstone
Rema Morgan-Aluko @ FandangoNOW
Meet the Panel!
Moran Rubanenko @ Google
Moran had been working at Google LA in Site Reliability Engineering for 3.5 years. From 2013 to 2015, she worked as a Software Engineer at Algosec Israel, developing security management products. From 2011 to 2013, she was a Software Engineer at BlueSea Software, developing telecom projects. She graduated from Tel Aviv University with a double major, BSc in Computer Science and Geophysics, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences.
Bhavini Soneji @ Headspace
Bhavini is an established product technology leader with a track record of delivering key business, technology, and software design initiatives. She has served as an advisor to a range of companies, working with C-level executives on business and technology strategy, and as a mentor to Techstars. Her strategic thought leadership played a pivotal role in partnering with executive teams to grow multi-million-dollar revenues and support mergers and acquisitions.
Bhavini is a seasoned software executive who has transformed and led high-performance organisations, bringing over 20 years of diverse leadership and technical experience across large-scale B2B and B2C solutions. Her background spans healthcare, social platforms, and cloud technologies, with experience at Microsoft, Snapchat, Heal, and Headspace. She brings an entrepreneurial mindset, a strong bias to action, and a passion for mentoring leaders, thriving on opportunities to build pioneering solutions to complex customer problems.
Avani Patel @ Cornerstone
Avani is a leader in Product Management and has recently joined Cornerstone OnDemand to support a technology evolution in talent management and HR systems. Previously, she worked at the forefront of cybersecurity, collaborating closely with threat researchers and engineering teams to protect organisations against hackers. She has been a strong advocate for a future where security enhances DevOps rather than acting as a barrier to innovation. Avani is also a recognised speaker, having delivered keynotes and spoken on panels at numerous conferences. Promoting women having a seat at the table is a mission close to her heart.
Marcus Mitchell @ Google
Marcus is a Senior Engineering Director at Google New York, working in Technical Infrastructure as part of the Site Reliability Engineering team. His previous work at Google included automating supply chains for building data centres, developing consumer mobile and person-to-person payments through Google Wallet and Android Pay, scaling international payments for Google Play and Google Checkout, contributing to Google.org engineering for Crisis Response and the OneToday app, and working on web search history, personalisation, and recommendations.
Rema Morgan-Aluko @ FandangoNOW
With over 15 years of experience in technology, engineering leadership, and software development, Rema led the technology group for the FandangoNOW platform, Fandango’s on-demand streaming service. At FandangoNOW, she oversaw the development of web and mobile applications, OTT platforms and services, as well as APIs.
Previously, Rema led the development and implementation of initiatives across Fandango’s verticals, including trailers through Movieclips, video and editorial content, movie and entertainment metadata, commerce, user profiles, CRM, marketing campaigns and programmes, as well as advertising and monetisation.
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