Fangfei is a software engineer at Knewton, an edtech company, where she builds features and tools related to content. She is considered the go-to authority in the company for how to not cause outages from Django database migrations. Fangfei earned two degrees from MIT, a bachelor’s in Physics and in Writing and a master’s in Science Writing. Outside of work, she enjoys puzzle hunts and eating delicious food.

Shae Smith is a Smith College ’08 grad and has been writing code for 16 years. She is currently a Software Engineer at Teachers Pay Teachers, an open online marketplace where teachers sell their original lesson plans and other course materials to other teachers. Before that she was a Senior Software Engineer at DoSomething.org, a nonprofit getting young people involved in social change. Her experience in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors has aligned her career with her belief that we can use tech to help the community around us and that we can build technology that leaves a positive impact on the world. 

Rebecca is a software engineer at Cockroach Labs and a member of the SQL query optimizer team. Prior to joining Cockroach Labs, she was a graduate student at MIT, where she worked with Professor Michael Stonebraker researching distributed database elasticity and muti-tenancy. Rebecca holds a B.S. in Physics from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. In her free time, she enjoys rowing on Boston's Charles River and enjoying the great outdoors.