Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Rafia Qutab Kilian is a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Electrical Engineering and began her journey into the software world after an internship at Microsoft. She has over a decade of software engineering experience and has lead development teams at startups and now at NASA JPL. She enjoys strategic problem-solving, building diverse teams, and writing well-tested, clean code. She enjoys camping, exploring local coffee shops, and traveling the world with her partner and pup in her free time.

Strategies for succeeding as a underrepresented engineering leader

Rafia Qutab Kilian will draw on her experience as a Lead Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and as a woman to provide strategies for how to succeed at work, alongside her own stories of how she put these into practice.

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