About Kalthyleen Beveridge

Born in Vietnam and Came to California in 1980
Lived in Bay area San Jose until 2004
Undergrad was done in Santa Clara
Had an oppurtunity to go to Spain
Has a Finance Bachelors Degree
Favorite poet is Maya Angelou
Knows how to surf
Worked at Qualcomm and left about 5 years ago
Worked at 3 Companies
- HP Inc.
- Qualcomm
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
Similarities include developing tech for the benefit of the people/world and products are their services.
She loves hightech
She is a senior director of marketing in sales

About Kris Porter

Software Engineer
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Infastructure Engineer
Went to Livermoore highschool
Had no highschool CS classes
Went to UCLA for electrical engineering for bachelors and masters
Failed a programming class retook it and got a C
Stopped programming for 8 years
Studied radar systems, RS systems, wireless communication systems
Created a robot to deploy into the world and it would swing between trees and collect biological readings
Learned how to operate Linux
Fixed computers
Followed his girlfriend to San Diego because she moved so he moved
Worked with a bunch of servers to do automation, data collection, and analytics
Worked at Qualcomm for sbt 6 years doing engineering, monitoring, DevOps
2 years ago starting working at twitter
Thinks continuos learning is important
Did machine learning
Did courses at Qualcomm
Self taught Python
Contributed to a new added Data center at Twitter

What do you think is the most important skill ot have in the tech industry?

What is one of the biggest challenges in the tech industry and how did you overcome it?

Kathyleen’s answer:

Spent 14 years at Qualcomm and its a semi conductor industry and they went through acquisitions, something she had to learn was that Qualcomm was going out and acquiring companies. It was hard for her to be adaptitive.

Kris’s answer:

Interviews are the hardest thing because they are a series of timed random tests and his code had to compile and work in under 30-40 minutes and it was hard for him.

How is your work life balance?

Kris’s answer:

You can talk with companies to negotiate, and they’re are companies that make you work a lot. It’s truly individual and a good question to ask yourself and ask others.

Is there anything you are interested in exploring or learning right now?

Kris’s answer: