Its taken me 5 weeks of — should I write this or not. And years of observations, learning's, evernote’s and discussions. To write this blog. At the end, it was all about — let’s write it, why not :). For folks who live in silicon valley, or have visited silicon…

Word of caution: Before jumping into any conclusions, please make sure you read my complete article, so you understand the view I am coming from. Some facts: My name is Pooja Gada, an Engineer — who is also a woman. I studied Information Security (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) and…

Anyone who has worked in data intensive environments, is aware of the — CPU going bonkers problem. Recently, i was investigating the root cause of high CPU utilization at one of the servers. …

A month ago, i hosted a WomenWhoCode meetup at our Qventus HQ in Mountain View, California. As part of the meetup, i gave a talk about “Scaling in startups — Lessons learned”. A lot of folks had approached me about this and encouraged me to speak. The enthusiasm in the…

Rewind 3 years ago, i was doing my usual ritual of browsing through Quora, reading about everything under the sun. Yes, that happens a lot, i mean a lot on Quora :-P. I ran into this thread, where someone was talking about Adam D’Angelo, Quora founder and previously one of…

It was 3am. After wrapping up assignments, my roommates and i were finally getting back to doing chores, reading emails etc. Our program manager, had emailed us about a hackathon hosted by ESPN called ESPNW at Stanford University. Carnegie Mellon students winning on Stanford turf, was an opportunity that no…

Okay, the title is definitely deceiving, it was actually meant to be :-). I was recently watching few videos from a youtube channel which ranked characters from various tv series. It got me thinking, each one of us, have had this time in our life, where we relied on a…

Alright, so i have been thinking about writing about this from long(Thanks to skillful procrastination, it took so long). Its about time, i finally wrote about this. Lately, i have been reading a ton about Women in Engineering or Being a Women Engineer and stuff like that. One question i…

Alright, this story needs to be told. The flow of events is just not acceptable. Let me jump right away. So my mother was supposed to travel from Hyderabad, India to San Francisco, USA by Etihad Airways. Here is how the initial flight itinerary looked like: Hyd, India — Abu…