Tune in to our conversation with Thusha Agampodi, who is the Director of Engineering at Aurora Solar, a cloud-based solar platform that uses data, automation, and AI to make solar projects simple and predictable. After studying computer systems engineering at Carleton, she worked in various engineering roles at Tread, Magnet Forensics, and Blackberry. 

In this episode we discuss what goes into building an engineering team, how to manage personalization and simplicity when building systems, and approaches to allocating resources in terms of talent, budget, and time in tech projects. We also discuss what it's like being the only woman in the room in male dominated fields like engineering.

Thusha's action items are:

1. Don’t specialize too early.
2. Try things you’re not 100% sure you’ll succeed at.
3. Remind yourself that if you’re in a room where you’re underrepresented, you have just as much right to be in the room as everybody else.