Irina is a Founder & Director of Women Coding Community, VP Lead Software Engineer at JPMC, and ex-Senior Backend Software Engineer at Revolut. Her experience as a Software Engineer included working with large projects, search engines, distributed systems, performance issues, and huge data storage. She worked at Revolut, where she built a platform for retail products. That includes support services to handle 50 million clients, huge throughput and provide law latency for data flow. Irina mentoring mid-level engineers, constantly helps her team to tackle the extra mile and help the company to improve an intervening process, onboarding new hires, navigating interns and running knowledge-sharing activities. As a cherry on top, she helped to launch the inner Revolut Women Guild “RevWomen”. 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: Defining Success on Your own terms: Lessons from a career in Software Development Industry 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: This talk will share a personal and authentic journey through the software development industry, exploring what it means to build a fulfilling and impactful career in a male-dominated field. Moving beyond traditional metrics of success, this presentation will focus on the pivotal mindset shifts and practical strategies needed to overcome challenges like imposter syndrome, navigate career transitions, and find your own definition of professional accomplishment.