Celebrating #IWD2020

by Katie McCaskey on March 8, 2020

This International Women’s Day we celebrate the theme #EqualForEqual.

Here, a collection of some of our favorite pieces produced by, or featuring, women in our industry over the last year. These include profiles of industry leaders, conference sessions led by women, and popular writing here on the Sonatype blog. This small sample shows the many areas in which women shape this industry and our company.

Innovator’s Journey

Our ongoing, multi-year series features people talking about how they started, and established, careers in DevOps.

Jasmine James, Delta
“In that role, coding was always fun to me, but I really loved the way that we were able to make the QA experience more efficient through automation.”
Tina Donbeck, US Patent & Trademark Office
“I fell into technology. I have a degree in Organizational Development-type Psychology, so I fell into the IT world probably about 18 years ago after I got out of the Marine Corps.”
Courtney Kissler, Starbucks (now at Nike)
“He said, ‘What would it take for you to change your major?’ I said, ‘I don’t think I’d be very good at computer science.’”
Shannon Lietz, Intuit
“I remember going to my computer lab at college and being able to log onto the mainframe there. Passwords were really primitive. There wasn’t a validation policy for them.”
Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM
“From my perspective, the idea of breaking down the silos has always been the right answer. I really do think the cultural shift needs to take place. However, I don’t like the term DevOps sort of, because it’s really not dev and ops, it’s really business and development and Q&A and operations. It’s everybody that has to get this transformation.”