Ushashi Chakraborty

Startup founder currently working on launch of MVP. Lives in the Bay area.Listed on "Women Worth Watching, 2021" by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Previously VP of Engineering at Wisely reporting to CEO before Wisely's acquisition by Olo. Continued as Head of Engineering for the Engagement & Operations business unit at Olo.Previous to that Senior Director of Engineering at Mode running Application Engineering organization with five product teams/engineering managers. Has worked in Groupon, Microsoft, and Thomson Reuters. Holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from North Dakota State University.Also, a seasoned speaker and has spoken at several conferences and panels.Has been involved with improv since 2015. Second City Training Center, Chicago alumni and has performed improv, sketch, and stand up across several small theaters in Chicago.Honors / Positions:• Listed on "Women Worth Watching, 2021" by Profiles in Diversity Journal• Events Chair, Women@Groupon, 2016-2017Highlighted podcast appearances:• Frontier podcast by gun.io • Change Wave by treehouse • Startupcto.ioPast Guest Speaker appearances in company events:• Square: Jan 2021, Women at Square event• Carta: Nov 2019, Women at Carta event• Reddit: Mar 2019, Engineering Leadership eventHighlighted past conference/panels speaking:• Path to VPE, Divhersity, 2021• Grace Hopper Conference, Orlando, October 2019• CTO Summit, NASDAQ, NYC, 2018• Girl Geek Dinner, October 2019• Women in Tech Breakfast, General Assemb.ly, SF, March 2019• CTO Summit, Austin, April 2019• CTO Summit, Chicago, May 2019• VerveCon, SF, May 2019• Guest feature on Anita Borg Technical Leader's Monthly Webinar, May 2019• CTO Summit, SF, May 2019• Code Climate Leadership Summit, SF, May 2019• Grace Hopper Conference, Phoenix, 2014.• Expo: QA, Madrid, 2015.• Geekfest, Chicago, 2016.