Leader spotlight: Heidy Khlaaf
We’re spending Women’s History Month with women leaders who are making history every day in the tech community. Read more about Heidy Khlaaf: research consultant at Adelard LLP.
Political scientist turned coder, Lorena Mesa is a data engineer on GitHub’s software intelligence systems team, Director on the Python Software Foundation, and PyLadies Chicago co-organizer. Lorena’s time at Obama for America and her subsequent graduate research required her to learn how to transform messy, incomplete data into intelligible analysis on topics like predicting Latinx voter behavior. It’s this unique background in research and applied mathematics that drove Lorena to pursue a career in engineering and data science. One part activist, one part Star Wars fanatic, and another part Trekkie, Lorena abides by the motto to “live long and prosper”.
We’re spending Women’s History Month with women leaders who are making history every day in the tech community. Read more about Heidy Khlaaf: research consultant at Adelard LLP.
Every March we recognize the women who have shaped history—and now, we’re taking a look forward. From driving software development in large companies to maintaining thriving open source communities, we’re…