A small, deliberate room of women
running technology in Toronto's largest institutions.
Salon is a gathering of senior women in technology from Toronto's banks and insurance companies, hosted by Spark Recruiting and Adriana Zubiri.
No panel. No agenda. Just the people you've been meaning to meet, in a room small enough to actually meet them.
This is the first one.
"Twenty years moving money. Fluent in five languages, one of them Python."
"Builds the systems behind thirteen million decisions a day. Bakes sourdough on Sundays."
"Migrated more workloads than she can count. Still keeps a printed copy of Code Complete."
"Spent fifteen years thinking about how systems break. Sleeps fine."
"Models risk for a living. Says the unpredictable parts are what make it interesting."
"Started in physical security. Same instincts, different surface."
"Came to insurance from gaming. Says the regulators are friendlier."
"Believes a good runbook is worth a thousand alerts. Plays cello."
"Built her first banking app at twenty-five. Now runs the team that ships them."
"Came from Bogotá by way of MIT. Reads three books at a time."
"Connects systems for a living. The puzzle is what hooks her."
"Reading post-quantum cryptography papers since 2019. Gardens cacti."
"Designs systems that need to outlive her tenure. Half-marathon a year."
"Measures engineering happiness in deploy frequency. Married to a violinist."
"Uses statistics to argue with stakeholders. Wins, mostly."
"Built three apps that made it past two million users. Wishes phones still had buttons."
"Believes incidents teach more than postmortems. Climbs in her spare time."
"A decade on authentication. Still uses a hardware key."
"Started on mainframes. Now runs a team of two hundred cloud engineers."
"Twenty-five years in. Still gets curious about every new technology."
By invitation. Kindly reply.
