Dominique (Dom) DeGuzman is a self-taught software engineer with a background in enterprise desktop hardware support and formalized public speaking. After years in hardware and support Dom moved into software and tools development. Now an Infrastucture Engineer at Twilio, she focuses on development pipeline, infrastructure monitoring, and internal communications tools. Building off of Atlassian’s products, she’s built and customized internal intranets, wikis and issue/bug tracking systems. As part of the Systems Engineering team, she’s administratively responsible for systems such as LDAP, Jenkins, Cloudability and AWS. She’s utilized tools such as Puppet and Chef to manage and provision engineering infrastructure and deployment but prefers to focus on developing tools to automate cleaner and faster deployments.

Alongside development, Dom is a co-founder and co-organizer of the Diversity & Inclusion program at Twilio, and sits as an advisor for Twilio’s Women’s Organization and the LGBTQA Employee Resource Group. Outside of Twilio, Dom is the San Francisco City Director for Lesbians Who Tech, an organization that highlights and elevates queer women in tech and the organizer of two Diversity & Inclusion startup coalitions with over 20 other companies: the Diversity Advocates and the LGBTQ ERG Alliance.

In addition to helping startups create and improve their Diversity & Inclusion programs, Dom is also an advisory board member for Alliance Health Project and a published contributor to Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture. She uses humor and personal story telling to speak about the importance of diversity and inclusion, battling the brogrammer culture, how to overcome impostor syndrome, and highlighting points of intersectionality that are often treated as separated identities.