By Meta Careers
March is an exciting time of year because we come together to celebrate the many achievements led by bold, courageous and inspirational women. As part of those celebrations on International Women's Day, Facebook’s employee resource group, Women@, partnered with #shemeansbusiness to host a series of 24-hour Facebook Live interviews featuring women entrepreneurs. Business owners, civic leaders, change makers and non-profit visionaries shared their stories of success and failures. See some highlights from the day at the end of this story. We also honored Women’s History Month by celebrating the bold and inspiring women of Facebook, working toward our mission to connect the world. Meet a few of them below and learn what they're most proud of. Happy Women's History Month!
Aidymar B., Engineering Director, Ads Growth and Solutions, Facebook
"My career at Facebook has been varied and interesting. I started my journey on the infrastructure team and, along with others, built teams that were responsible for ensuring that all Facebook-designed hardware deployed in our data centers met our high quality, reliability, and performance standards. I then joined the Connectivity Lab and worked on projects to address the barriers to Internet access around the world. I’m now part of the Ads Growth and Solutions team where we work to make meaningful connections between businesses and people. These have been super exciting and impactful areas to support and create products, but my proudest achievement has been the opportunity to help people I have supported to achieve their career goals. I am lucky to work at a place where I not only create great products, but I also get the chance to help others grow their careers."
Zainab Z., Software Engineer, Facebook
"I am proud of how much Facebook's “move fast” culture has pushed me to grow and set my sights higher. I work on our machine learning platform. In less than a year of joining my team as a new graduate hire, I became the owner of our prediction system. This meant that my team and our customers could depend on me to know the system inside out, jump in to debug, and strengthen our infrastructure. Our prediction system would later also become the topic of my first tech talk at an industry meet-up."
Alex H., Software Engineer, Product Reliability, Oculus
"I am proud of the first public demos of GearVR at the first Oculus Connect, during which I coordinated all the technology in a quick sprint, in the middle of a major SDK release! I'm inspired by the potential of virtual reality, and the amazing future it can create."
June W., Engineering Manager, Instagram
"My proudest achievement at Instagram was shipping the first version of ephemeral messaging on Instagram Direct. I was transitioning to a new role as an engineering manager. I had so much fun as both an individual contributor and manager of the product team working on the project. Together, the team was able to meet the deadline on an important product. The engineering challenges of building an ephemeral messaging system as well as the opportunity to lead the team and help them feel confident and passionate made it a memorable experience."
Shruthi M., Software Engineer, WhatsApp
"I feel proud and lucky to have worked with a very small team of engineers to release Video Calling in WhatsApp last year. It involved building efficient real-time protocols and algorithms for bandwidth estimation, flow control, packet loss, jitter, a/v sync issues, encodings and such networking and video-related concepts. I’m happy to say that the feature is available to 1.2 billion people around the world and helps them stay connected with their friends and family every day. And as cliché as it may seem both Jan and Brian (WhatsApp’s founders) inspire me to focus on what is important for our users - to build a simple, reliable, secure, high-quality product."
Uplifting Conversations on International Women's Day
From an Instagram-hosted speaker series featuring U.S. Secretary Madeline Albright to Facebook's Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams talking with owners of Veritable Vegetable, International Women's Day was filled with uplifting conversations that highlighted the successes of women and connected the community at large.
Facebook Live moderated by the Women@ Facebook Employee Resource Group lead Bettina featured co-founders of wogrammer, a non-profit dedicated to elevating the voices of women in tech and celebrating their technical achievements.
Facebook Live in New York with Jessica Abo, TV journalist and entrepreneur on being bold in your community, career and love life. This was followed by a panel moderated by Michelle Klein, Marketing Director of Facebook North America, that included Erika Wasser, Founder of Glam & Go, Michelle Kennedy, Founder of mobile application Peanut, and Sadie Kurzban, Founder of 305 Fitness. These women have all been bold in being leaders and entrepreneurs.
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