Women in DevOps are back! Join us for our first Woking-based panel discussion in partnership with the wonderful team at IDBS.

What’s beyond the glass ceiling? Tech’s best opportunities are often hidden in plain sight.

On Wednesday 19th March, Women in DevOps is teaming up with IDBS to bring you a panel discussion on how to create a career that works for you.

With the help of our expert speakers, we’ll explore the trends and opportunities reshaping the way we work, including:

  • Mapping out a career path – Feeling lost or unsure of your next step? A managerial position isn’t the only route forward. We’ll explore in-demand skills and how to define meaningful growth with first-hand insight.
  • Maintaining a healthy work/life balance – Tech moves fast. How do we get better at balancing parenting, self-care, wellness, and KPIs?
  • Overcoming Imposter Syndrome – We’ll discuss how to create psychologically safe working environments, improve our self-confidence, and overcome the imposter syndrome that disproportionately affects women and all underserved groups in technology.

Whether you’re looking for the tools to grow your career, develop a more inclusive team dynamic, become an ally, build your network, or learn more about technology from industry-leading voices, our events are safe and supportive spaces to share ideas.

RSVP today to save your space and join the conversation.

Meet our panel:

Sveta Bazhko

Sveta is a seasoned engineering leader with extensive experience in leading platform and infrastructure teams. Most recently, she served as Director of Engineering at Yelp, where she led the Data Infrastructure organisation.
Throughout her career, she has transitioned from individual contributor roles to entrepreneurship as a technical co-founder, and then to engineering management, building and scaling teams, and leading senior managers and Staff+ engineers in globally distributed companies.
Previously, Sveta held engineering leadership positions at BuzzFeed, Cisco Meraki, and Tractable AI, where she fostered a culture of high psychological safety and accountability. She led the development of new systems and services and managed large-scale migrations, impacting millions of users worldwide.

Charlie Walters

As an experienced IT Director, Charlie heads up Engineering and Platform Enablement teams focused on Site Reliability Engineering, Automation and Platforms Ops within HSBC’s Chief Technology Office. Her responsibility within this space is to drive consistent engineering best practices and tooling for the CTO and to manage shared infrastructure platforms used globally across HSBC.

Charlie has worked for over 25 years in a broad range of roles, primarily across software delivery but also operations. She has tackled all types and sizes of challenges both at large insurance and finance corporates as well as in emerging tech start-ups. Her speciality of managing transformational change and agile ways of working has allowed her to deliver on what she truly values, building high-performing teams and delivering efficient, resilient and reliable services.

Charlie is a strong advocate for supporting people to be successful in their careers and is now involved in CTO People and Talent growth. Outside of HSBC she is an ambassador for Everywoman and is passionate about fostering diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. She achieves this through volunteer roles such as being an ambassador for Everywoman, as a careers enterprise advisor for a local council and a mentor (One million mentors). As a speaker at various conference events, Charlie delves into crucial topics such as tech industry culture, empowering inclusivity, and intrinsic motivation.

Dominika Kodadova

Dominika Kodadova is a Principal Recruitment Consultant at Trust in SODA, and the UK and Ireland Lead for Women in DevOps. A passionate advocate for the diversification of the tech workforce, Dom has hosted thought-provoking discussions on what it truly means to empower women in an environment resistant to change, including the recent panel discussion: Empowering Women in DevOps and AI: Breaking Biases and Embracing Advocacy. Dom specialises in connecting diverse talent with inclusive, high-growth career opportunities across the full spectrum of technology. As a community lead for Women in DevOps, Dom is passionate about helping women break down the same barriers she once faced on the road to fulfilling work.

Liz Tyler
Liz leads the global services, customer support and quality functions at IDBS. She has been instrumental in helping to position IDBS as the industry leader in quality accreditation.

In her previous role as Senior Director of Quality & Operations, Liz led teams responsible for Corporate Quality Assurance and Sales & Services Operations. She joined IDBS in 2014, having previously worked for Novartis in various IT management & leadership roles including Clinical Development IT and CIO UK and Ireland Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Prior to this, Liz was a Consultant at Accenture.

She holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge and a BSc Hons in Chemistry from the University of Bristol.