MICHELLE GLAUSER

About Me

Hi! I'm Michelle Glauser.

Since becoming an engineer in 2012, I've been passionate about helping underrepresented people join, feel comfortable in, and stay in the software industry. To that end, I:

• founded and run Techtonica, a tuition-free tech training and job placement program for women and non-binary adults in need,

• speak about diversity topics, such as impostor syndrome, how to include class straddlers in tech, and building a safe environment,

• develop Twilio's dev community,

• lead PyLadies SF, Diversity Advocates, and a group called LadyNerds,

• wrote a viral tweet about managers covering up lack of pay, title, and team using praise, and

• created the #ILookLikeAnEngineer ad campaign in 2015.

In 2016, LinkedIn chose me as one of the top 10 professionals in software for their first "Next Wave" list.

When I'm not doing techie or community things, I enjoy baking (and consuming the goods), burying myself in a book, going on hikes, and dog-watching.

Community

As I said, I'm passionate about helping more underrepresented people join, feel comfortable in, and stay in tech, and I do that through my community work. I'm especially passionate about locally-focused socioeconomic diversity, intersectional inclusion, and empowerment for women and non-binary people. Learn more about my community work below.

• My talk at a community managers event

• Upworthy's video about the starting stages of Techtonica

• Free coding workshops for women and genderqueer adults at public labs in the Tenderloin (read about the first one here)

• PyLadies SF organizer—I coordinate sponsors and hosts, find speakers, manage the Meetup group, and connect people

• #ILookLikeAnEngineer Billboard Campaign—a campaign to create normalization, awareness, and inspiration around non-stereotypical engineers

• Learning-to-Code Resources—my open-source spreadsheet to gather coding information

• My Story and Women in Tech—a talk I gave at Barcamp Shanghai 2013

• 21 Reasons Why Tech is a Great Field for Women—my post to encourage more women to join tech

• People Can Code Shanghai RailsBridge—first RailsBridge workshop in China, organized by me

• JavaScript and Tech Interview Meetups—meetups I organized for Women Who Code London

Coding

See my GitHub code here. There you'll find my code from the ESPNW Hackathon (full-stack Python), several Get Satisfaction hacks (company updates banner using AJAX and cookies, subscribe to all new topics button in JavaScript, bulk user invitation in Ruby, and a Trinet ideas page), some RailsBridge workshops, and this site, built in Python, Django, HTML, and CSS.

Additionally, check out these projects:

• Techtonica's open-source curriculum

• an open-source Apple keyboard shortcut learning app

• BookFairy: a Python/Django project to check the SF library a whole list at a time

• Revive: a Jekyll/Markdown/GitHub Pages site for a non-profit that sends medical supplies into slums

• ChiShenMa (startup in Chinaccelerator): a Python/Django/jQuery mobile web app to help you pick a place to eat in Shanghai

• Picky: a Python/Django swiping Yelp image food picker built for LinkedIn's DevelopHer Hackday

My Blog

I've been blogging since 2003. Check it out! Highlights:

• How to Survive a Broken Foot—my all-time most popular blog post (with more than 100,000 YouTube views)

• Living in and traveling to India, Ireland, Shanghai, London, San Francisco, Leipzig, Russia, Paris, Scotland, Guilin/Yangshuo, Philippines, Beijing, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Macau, Québec and Montréal, Pacific Northwest, Turkey/Bulgaria/Romania, Poland, Latvia, Switzerland, Italy, Chicago, New York, Boston, Costa Rica, and Mexico

• DIY: City Garden, Landscaping, Quilling, Umbrella Skirt, Audrey Hepburn Silhouette, Sofa Cover, Origami Flowers, and Cheese Making

Contact

Find me on Twitter.

Read about my work history and reach out about speaking opportunities on LinkedIn.

Want to book a consultation with me? Pay here and I'll send you my booking link.