Tech Heroes

In this episode, we are joined by our Intuit Latinos Network San Diego co-leads, Monica Miyasoto (Staff Technical Program Manager), and Ruby Sherman (IT Manager). We sat down to discuss how Intuit celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month and how our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) engage, inspire, and connect Intuit employees year round. You can also watch this episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ33RiUajZM

Are you curious about how to land a tech internship with Intuit? In this episode, Emma Anderson, a former intern turned full-time software engineer, and Charles Martin, a senior recruiter specializing in university recruiting, discuss key tactics in landing and being successful in a tech internship position. You can also watch this episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2zpzkWI-xU

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Silvia Davis, a Senior Customer Experience Specialist here at Intuit. Learn how Silvia and her team work to use customer feedback to evolve Inuit's products and services with our technologists.

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Aviv Ben Arie, a Principal Data Scientist here at Intuit. Aviv sat down with us to chat about her work in explainable AI and her research with Tel Aviv University, as well as her passion for mentorship and learning communities. Aviv recently hosted a discussion at the Women in Data Science conference that goes into the details of explainable AI, and will be available to watch on-demand soon.

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Principal Product Manager Brandon Mitchell and Principal Software Engineer Harith Elrufaie. In this episode, Brandon and Harith sit down to chat with us about the ML-powered features they've worked on at Intuit, what they're most excited for coming up in the Data and ML space, and their career journeys so far.

In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Natalie Ryan, an Intuit Android engineer, and Pallavi Mokashi, an Intuit iOS engineer now turned engineering manager. In this episode, Natalie and Pallavi share their experiences in mobile engineering at Intuit and the journeys that brought them to their roles today, exciting recent developments in the mobile field, the biggest misconceptions around iOS vs. Android, and Intuit's journey through mobile thus far.

Meet Alexis Choi, a product manager on Intuit's Adversary Management team. In this episode, our new host Lucy Shen and Alexis discuss the importance of an interdisciplinary mindset and responsible tech in the field of Cybersecurity, the career of product management, and even their favorite true crime podcasts!

In honor of International Women in Engineering Day, this Intuit Tech Heroes Podcast celebrates the career journey and passions of Intuit software engineer Kayla Nussbaum who is doing her part to #shapetheworld she wants to see, for herself and future generations of women in tech. In this Tech Heroes podcast, meet Kayla, software engineer in a group called DevX (Development Experiences) where she and her team build front end tools and frameworks for engineers across the globe at Intuit. Prior to this role, Kayla was software engineer co-op from RIT, Rochester Institute of Technology. Episode Transcript https://talenteq.intuit.com/International-women-in-engineering-celebration

In honor of International Women in Engineering Day, this Intuit Tech Heroes Podcast celebrates the career journeys and passions of two Intuit software engineers who are doing their part to #shapetheworld they want to see, for themselves and future generations of women in tech. Aliza Carpio interviews guests Kylie Taitano and Lucy Shen, technologists who are doing amazing things outside of their role at Intuit and bringing their whole selves to their roles. Both Kylie and Lucy are local community leaders, passionate technologists who exemplify Intuit's values of courage, integrity without compromise, stronger together, and we care and give back. Show links: - For the complete transcript of this episode visit https://talenteq.intuit.com/bringing-whole-self-to-work. - Code With Her nonprofit https://codewithher.org/ - Ying YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/Lyrratic/featured

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. https://www.widsconference.org/

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.

In this podcast, meet Nhung Ho, Director, Data Science at Intuit’s AI group. Nhung Ho is Director of Data Science for the QuickBooks Ecosystem and Customer Success data science teams at Intuit. She leads applied machine learning teams that build new-to-the-world products and services backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning to serve the company’s small business and self-employed customers. Nhung has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale University and a B.A. in Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. Aliza and Nhung discuss finding confidence in the workplace, her dramatic career shift, what data science really means at Intuit, and a sneak peak into her speaker event at KDD 2020 happening next week. Learn more on Intuit's Blog: https://www.intuit.com/blog/technology/astrophysics-to-data-science-a-tech-heros-journey/

Tech Heroes podcast host Aliza Carpio sits down with Peter Thomas, Distinguished Engineer at Intuit, Hands-on Java EE & JS / Web-UI Architect, and creator of the Karate test-automation framework. His project JTrac has been volunteer translated into 20 languages and his first open-source project CB2XML (2004) is still being actively maintained. He was a guest speaker at Selenium Conference Tokyo 2019 and Technical Editor of the best-selling book Wicket in Action [Manning 2008]. They discuss the importance of contribution to open source in building technologists’ craft and his advice to start small, test automation and their joint passion for tech evangelism.

Aliza Carpio interviews Nivedita Nayak, Staff Software Engineer on Intuit’s QuickBooks Online Advanced team out of Bangalore. She’s a technology-enthusiast, hobbyist programmer and self-described bad dancer! Nivedita talks about the value of Follow Me Homes, customer observation sessions that are a staple of developing technology that help solves genuine customer pain points. Her passions are developer productivity and efficiency, practicing speed as a habit, and helping engineers create seamless relationships with their product managers.

Tech Heroes podcast host, Aliza Carpio interviews Rohith Ramakrishnan. Rohith is a Senior Software Engineer working out of Intuit’s Bangalore development center. His current role at Intuit has him working within the Mint platform, he is the founder of the open source project “Automation for Humans” and loves creating music as a self-taught pianist, guitarist and flautist. His mantra – party, code, repeat!

Listen in as Aliza Carpio interviews Naresh Ramesh, a Software Engineer, who works out of Intuit's development center in Bangalore. Naresh started out as an intern with Intuit in 2017 and now has experience working on two high-performing teams at Intuit, QuickBooks Live and Mint. Naresh shares how Intuit has made his transition from “College Hacker” to Software Engineer smooth and the importance of customer obsession for all engineers. He offers a fresh perspective on open source and where he sees technology going in the next 30 years.

Tech Heroes podcast host, Aliza Carpio interviews Elangovan Shanmugam, Distinguished Engineer at Intuit and poet. Elangovan Shanmugam is a deeply passionate Distinguished Engineer at Intuit who thrives on innovation. Over his 26 year career, he’s built scalable and high performing architectures, SaaS solutions, mobile services, multi-domain integration platforms and beyond. He’s designed and developed many protocols such as custom HTTP protocol, SMTP protocol, and OFX Billpay protocol. As a tech leader, he discusses the importance of diversity within teams, his career journey to becoming a distinguished engineer, and how he believes code is like poetry.

Tech Heroes podcast host, Aliza Carpio interviews Rocio Montes. Rocio is a Staff Software Engineer working on Intuit’s enterprise architecture. She’s a lead for scaling and revamping the Open Source & Inner Source strategies and efforts across Intuit and an champion for women in technology. Outside of Intuit, she is on the leadership team of Girl Develop It and the Co-founder of EMAR, whose mission is to connect small businesses in the US who have tech needs with software engineering interns in Peru. As an Intuit Awesome Assessor, Rocio shares her advice for prospective Intuit intern and co-ops, her excitement around Grace Hopper, advice for women at the mid-career level, and the audio books she’s currently listening to.

Listen in as Aliza Carpio interviews Carlos Ambrozak, Principal Engineer at Intuit. Carlos shares his career journey with Intuit over the past 8 years and how he started out, like many, an individual contributor who has evolved to be someone who is passionate about growing and mentoring other engineers. He offers career advice not only for early career engineers, but also mid-career individuals who are interested in switching career paths. Carlos works on the UX Fabric team and shares how the work he does powers prosperity for both customers and engineers.