Krystal Smith-Moore is a Software Engineer Manager at Spotify.  She began her engineering career in Detroit and relocated to Atlanta after years of freelancing and finding her place in tech.  She is a previous engineer and engineering manager at Mailchimp, a member of /dev/color, LeadDev speaker, and continues to mentor engineers as they embark on their software engineering careers.  Krystal has also written a curriculum for Mailchimp’s hands-on learning program Launchpad, created in partnership with Clayton State University, mentored apprentices in the Treehouse Talent Path program, and co-created an internal engineering apprenticeship program at Mailchimp.  Krystal's passion is focused on industry impact and teaching future software engineers who have taken a non-traditional path and share a similar story as hers.