Manivannan Selvaraj
I am a software engineer with experience of working with IT companies in Silicon Valley, USA (Salesforce, Slack, PayPal). After spending about eight years contributing and leading various projects in the USA, I have recently relocated back to my hometown Coimbatore in India last year.
My day job involved dealing with imposter syndrome among an army of coding geniuses at Slack and perform as a Staff Engineer on the side. I've expertise in architecting and delivering large-scale systems in public and private clouds, leveraging technologies like Python, Java, GoLang, Chef, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Mesos, and Aurora. I love open source software and contribute to it whenever I get a chance.
Session
Last year at EuroPython, I gave a talk about leading with imposter syndrome, because let’s be honest, most of us feel like imposters when someone calls us “experts.” This year, I’m diving into something that helped me fight those feelings - mentoring both ways!
In this talk, we’ll explore how mentoring isn’t just about helping others. It’s also a wonderful way to level up your own skills. Whether you’re guiding someone who thinks print() is magic or learning from someone who uses five monitors and dark mode, mentoring both ways will change how you grow in your journey.