How becoming a parent accelerated my path to staff engineer

Parenthood teaches you many things, including how to become a better leader. Here’s how to apply the lessons and fast-track your IC career.

An unfortunate but common narrative presented to women is that a successful career and parenthood are in opposition. Given the number of challenges I’ve already faced as both a female and a Latina in software engineering, this is the last thing I wanted to hear when I found out I was pregnant with twins. So I decided not to listen – and I encourage you to do the same.

I am an example of how parenthood has made me not only a better employee but also a better leader.

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