Team

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Hilary Stohs-Krause

Senior Software Engineer at Red Canary

Hilary is a senior software engineer at Red Canary. She speaks at conferences around the country and internationally, including RailsConf, SXSW and PHP International. Hilary is passionate about the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship and social good, and serves on several community boards (Forward Fest, Social Good Accelerator). She loves sci-fi/fantasy, olives, cats and plants.

Isabel Gutierrez-Pils

Junior Software Developer

Isabel is a Junior Software Developer. Her background includes a Policy Advisor for the Department of Natural Resources and a master’s in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from UW Madison.

Isabel first became interested in web development through a work project a few years ago.  She was provided basic training in HTML and CSS. She really enjoyed coding and began to learn on my own as a hobby and later began attending meetups.  Her first meetup was a Madison Woman in Tech meetup. Everyone was very supportive, and this encouraged her to continue learning. Now she is part of the YWeb Career Academy and working on changing careers. 

She is especially interested in exploring issues related to diversity in technology careers.  She hopes to plan some events around these issues in the next year.

Carolyn Pao

Corporate & Community Engagement Coordinator at United Way of Dane County

Pao is passionate about learning and promoting technology and supporting diversity and women. She was part of the YWeb Career Academy Program that introduced her to tech and entrepreneur frontiers and graduated from their development program. She is originally from Florida so she loves food exploring, traveling, sunny days and hiking.