Shweta Bhandare
Shweta is a Principal Engineer at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, currently working on improving speed, reliability and processing of maps of biology. She is also works on securing and building out the high performance version of the application that enables these maps to be accessible to Recursion partners.
Before Recursion, she spent 15 years as a Senior Software Engineer at Cleo, Pearson, LogRhythm and a handful of other companies focused on design, development of software systems. She is originally from India, but now lives and enjoys active lifestyle in Boulder, CO where she enjoys trail running, yoga, and hiking with friends and family.
How to master the four Staff archetypes and elevate your impact
While the specifics of the job can vary widely, Will Larson has famously categorized the Staff+ experience into four archetypes: Tech Lead, Architect, Solver, and the Right Hand.
How to communicate effectively as an IC
How can ICs communicate the same piece of information effectively to different audiences?
Maps to medicines: One map to an atlas
Shweta Bhandare discusses how Recursion scientists perform CRISPR-Cas9 mediated knockout to understand the activity level of every gene in a specific disease model, which allows new discoveries to be made. These maps are specific to a cell-type.
Embedding on teams as a staff+ individual contributor
Shweta Bhandare shares her learnings with the process of embedding broken down into stages. For each stage, she will describe the focus areas, key relationships to build and nurture, outcomes to anticipate and finally how to unembed, making the team self-sufficient and self-confident in their ability to deliver.
Embedding on a team as a Staff+ engineer
A four-step guide to leveling up your team from the staff plus position.
Common mistakes new staff engineers make… and how to avoid them
Understand how to navigate uncertainty and new challenges as a new staff engineer
