Influencing as an Individual Contributor — tips from a Slack Staff Engineer

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Girl Geek X

5 min readJul 9, 2024

You are invited to join us online for Roojuta Lalani, Staff Software Engineer at Slack, speaking about influencing as an IC on September 4! It’s FREE to RSVP for the livestreaming event at ELEVATE.GIRLGEEK.IO

Sign up for FREE — then bookmark her session to add it to your calendar.

Plus, check out the speaker lineup across 2 tracks (career & tech). Learn tech insights & career advice from women working at Netflix, PlayStation, Goldman Sachs, Intuit, Adobe, Slack, Thoughtworks, Adobe, NVIDIA, Electronic Arts (EA), SailPoint & more.

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Angie Chang, Sukrutha Bhadouria, and the team behind Girl Geek X

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As we get back to work this week, we’re excited to announce that Slack Staff Backend Engineer Roojuta Lalani will be joining us as a speaker at ELEVATE Virtual Conference & Career Fair on Sep 4th!

Her talk on “How to Influence as an Individual Contributor” will share everything she knows about how to get buy-in and get things done as an individual contributor (IC).

She’ll teach you how to:

carve your own unique role in the organization by building domain expertise
play to your strengths
identify & influence the key influencers in your team / org
network intentionally to build your career & expand your influence

Plus, don’t miss the full-day of tech & career-focused talks spread across 2 tracks, and virtual employer booths where you can meet with recruiters in real-time. We also just added a LIVE Interactive Resume Review Workshop to the agenda!

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Hope to see you online this Sep 4!

Angie Chang, Sukrutha Bhadouria, and the team behind Girl Geek X

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