Partnered Event with PowerToFly — February 15, 2022

A networking event with Yelp’s technology sector, the engineering & data leaders behind Yelp. Hear the honest take on Yelp’s work culture, robust benefits, upcoming projects, and more—all from the perspective of tech leaders. Plus, more about the panel’s best career advice and tips for elevating your tech career.

Event Agenda:

Welcome & Keynote Address from Ana Alvarado-Virag, Engineering Manager
Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A featuring:

Dona Abou-Younes, Engineering Manager
Rob Fernandez, Engineering Manager
Ana Alvarado-Virag, Engineering Manager

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Ana Alvarado-Virág is an engineering manager on the Customer Infrastructure team, a team focusing on building and maintaining Yelp’s internal customer system. Originally from Venezuela, she’s a Computer Engineer with 10 years of experience working in companies such as Oracle and Booking.com. In her role as a database engineering lead she discovered her passion for coaching engineers in their career development and creating a culture of knowledge sharing across organizations.

Dona Abou-Younes is an engineering manager on the Ad Campaign team, a team within the Marterking Engineering group. The team provides a backend solution to create & customize campaigns for on-Yelp advertisers' needs. Dona’s career started in 2000 as a software engineer in the telecom industry, then moved to different R&D roles and industries, and landed in 2021 with Yelp. Her passion is to lead & coach people, and her approach when building teams is setting a safe environment and a shared leadership model.

Rob Fernandez is an engineering manager on the Compute Infrastructure Platform Experience team where he supports a team that provides the underlying platform and infrastructure to Yelp’s developers so that they can focus on delivering value to users. Rob grew up in Montreal and spent the last 20 years working in the telecom industry starting out as a systems integrator, growing into a solution architect and finally making the jump into management and leadership. Rob is passionate about building teams that selflessly support one another and are empowered to succeed.

About Yelp: Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment or purchase. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.

About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run platform that works with companies to identify skilled professionals for networking and recruiting opportunities. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Facebook, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, resulting in countless hires.