A lot of us have been thrown into the deep end of remote work. Some of us have lost their jobs, and find themselves having to network and interview for jobs virtually. Those of us who are lucky enough to still have jobs will have to work from home for the foreseeable future. Naturally, we are all wondering:

• How can I maximize my chances of getting a job under the current circumstances?
• How can I maintain my productivity while working from home?
• How do I overcome this debilitating sense of isolation?

To help answer these and other questions that you might have, we have brought together a panel of people with lots of experience working from home.

Speakers:

Malinda Coler - Founder, LessonsUp

Malinda, Founder of LessonsUp, is on a mission to close the generational tech gap by applying language-learning frameworks to tech lessons. She has been leading growth teams and operations at startups for ten years. She most recently co-founded Almanac, where she built a network of contributors to share knowledge in the fastest growing wiki for people in tech. She also scaled the customer success team at Aura (FinTech) from 10 to 200 associates across San Francisco and Mexico City to support the financially marginalized populations. Prior to that she scaled an on-demand network from 250 to 2,000 at iCracked.

Saba El-Hilo - Senior Data Engineer at MapBox

Saba is a Senior Staff Data Engineer at Mapbox who specializes in building data-intensive applications, tooling and pipelines. She really enjoys tackling challenging scalability problems and working with complex datasets. She has been working remotely for US based companies for the past 5 years from beautiful British Columbia. Prior to this, Saba was a Senior Data Engineer at Signal Sciences. She has also held tech lead roles at Rocana and Hootsuite. She obtained her BSc in Computer Science from Queens University, and her Masters from SFU.

Julia Amosova - Software Quality Engineer at Automattic

Julia Amosova is a Software Quality Engineer at Automattic, a fully distributed company behind site-building, e-commerce and blogging services such as WordPress.com, Tumblr, and more. Driven by user success, she takes pride in leading quality initiatives for the company's ecommerce platform WooCommerce. She is responsible for improving core product experience through test plans and strategies, automated end-to-end testing, issue triaging and advocating for quality culture. Outside of the virtual office, you can find Julia running in the park, reading and taking photos with a film camera.