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Erica Joy

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Erica is a Senior Engineer at Slack Technologies and advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech, and expanding access to tech education. Erica's career in tech began fourteen years ago doing domain administration for the University of Alaska Statewide System, before becoming a Googler in 2006. Erica's role grew and shifted within Google, growing from Support Technician to Site Reliability Engineer. She joined Slack in 2015, where she focuses on Build and Release Engineering. Erica is on the Advisory Boards for Atipica and Hack the Hood, and is a Tech Mentor for Black Girls Code. Erica is currently based in Oakland, California.

San Francisco, CA June 4, 2016
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In the span of little over a year, I went from relative nobody, putting in my time at a tech company, trying to figure out how to get happy, to relative nobody, putting in my time at a tech company, trying to figure out how to stay happy, but now with a lot more attention on my thoughts about diversity in tech. Join me as I explore that transition and the challenges of moving from an engineer with ideas in my head, to an engineer with ideas in the world.