Kaya Thomas
Kaya is a software engineer and serial founder with a decade of experience building products at companies like Slack and Calm.
She is the founder of Milk Diary, a privacy-first mobile app supporting new parents through infant feeding, and We Read Too, a book discovery app for kids that showcased authors and characters of color.
Kaya is a technical writer with bylines in TechCrunch, Smashing Magazine and Increment, and a contributing author in O’Reilly Media’s 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know. She holds a CS degree from Dartmouth and an MBA and Masters in Engineering from MIT.
When she’s not building, she enjoys mentoring young women and girls, reading, and spending time with her family.
Honing the right engineering skills in the age of AI
How to design work, coaching, and expectations so engineers grow in the areas where human judgment still outperforms AI.
