Reflecting on My Journey
As a Women in Tech Global Awards 2025 winner, what does this recognition mean to you, and how does it reflect your journey and impact in tech?
This recognition is deeply meaningful because it validates a journey that has always been about two things in parallel: building rigorous, real-world AI systems and creating space for others to grow alongside them. It reflects years of work at the intersection of machine learning and large-scale systems from open-source workflow engines to NVIDIA’s foundation models where the goal has been to move AI from research slides into reliable, production environments that actually help people and organizations make better decisions.
It also feels like recognition not just of individual contributions, but of the many teams, mentors, and early-career engineers I’ve had the privilege to work with.
Tech Industry's Most Rewarding Aspects
In your experience, what is the most rewarding aspect of working in the tech industry, and how has it influenced your career path?
The most rewarding aspect of working in tech is the ability to turn ideas into tools that real people can rely on often at a global scale. Seeing a model, service, or system move from a rough prototype on a laptop to something that powers decisions in a factory, a hospital pipeline, or a data center is incredibly fulfilling.
That perspective has shaped my career choices. I’ve consistently gravitated toward roles where I can bridge research and production. Knowing that the work will be used, stressed, and depended on pushes me to prioritize robustness, observability, and clarity as much as raw accuracy or novelty.
My Tech Career Milestone
Could you share a defining moment or a key achievement in your tech career that has been particularly impactful or meaningful to you?
One defining moment was taking ownership of NV-Tesseract at a time when it was effectively stalled and leading it into becoming a foundational time-series model used across multiple industries. That journey required technical reinventionnew architectures, better evaluation metrics, and scalable infrastructure but just as importantly it required aligning internal teams, external partners, and a new generation of engineers around a shared vision.
Another deeply meaningful milestone has been seeing mentees file their first patents and publish their first papers. Watching early-career engineers go from “I’m not sure I have anything novel to contribute” to leading experiments, driving invention disclosures, and presenting their work is one of the clearest signals that the systems and culture we are building will outlast any single project.
Empowering Women in Tech: Real Stories, Career Advice, and Tips
From your experience, what essential advice and practical tips would you offer to women aspiring to establish a successful career in tech?
A few practical things have made a difference for me:
Anchor in real problems. Early on, pick problems that matter to users, to businesses, or to society. It helps you make better tradeoffs and gives you a clear narrative for your impact.
Invest in fundamentals. Strong foundations in systems, algorithms, and data thinking compound over time. Tools and frameworks change; fundamentals let you adapt with confidence.
Ask for scope, not just tasks. Instead of only volunteering for well-defined tickets, ask to own a subsystem, a metric, or a customer use case end to end. Scope is where growth and visibility come from.
Document and share your work. Write design docs, internal posts, and talks. It amplifies your impact, makes your contributions visible, and builds your reputation as a go-to person.
Build your support network intentionally. Seek mentors, sponsors, and peers both within and outside your company. You don’t need to navigate promotions, negotiation, or role changes alone.
Don’t self-eliminate. Apply for the role, submit the paper, file the patent draft even if it doesn’t feel “ready enough.” Iterate in public; growth often follows action.
Who would you recommend to join the WomenTech Network, and why?
I would recommend WomenTech Network to:
Early- and mid-career women in technical roles who are looking for examples of non-linear career paths, role models beyond their immediate team, and practical guidance on progression, visibility, and negotiation.
Technical leaders and managers who want to become better sponsors and allies especially those responsible for hiring, promotions, and building inclusive teams.
Students and career switchers exploring what “tech” can mean in practice from AI and data science to infrastructure, security, or product engineering.
The value of WomenTech Network is that it makes the path less opaque. It provides access to stories, communities, and opportunities that many of us had to piece together on our own. For women who are often “the only one in the room,” having a broader network to learn from, collaborate with, and be inspired by can be a multiplier on both confidence and impact.
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