Finding technical mentors at Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit

Is Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit worth attending if your main interests are software development, architecture, Data / ML, cloud, or security?

I built a mentor directory to help answer that question, starting with the mentoring lineup.

Of the 260 profiles reviewed:

• 49 mentors offer technical mentoring or career guidance within a specific technical discipline.
• 91 mentors have an explicitly documented technical background, regardless of what they currently offer as mentors. Some are now engineering managers, directors, or other leaders with experience in development, data, security, or infrastructure.

These counts describe different criteria and should not be added together.

Software engineering and Data / ML are the most represented fields. Security, Cloud / SRE, and automation are also present, though the choice is smaller.

The directory lets you filter by field, include people with technical backgrounds beyond their current mentoring offer, see the reasoning behind each classification, and search for a mentor on LinkedIn.

Finding help with a career transition

Another useful pattern in the profiles is support for specific transitions between roles:

• From a PhD to software development — Gabriela Majewska.
• From BI to Data Engineering — Michał Lewandowski.
• From software development to Product Management — Patrycja Głaz.
• From engineer to Engineering Manager — Irina Petrushenko.

My hypothesis is that matching by “where I am now → where I want to go” could become one of the directory’s most useful features. A technology filter alone can easily miss these connections.

A specific technical topic can matter more than a title or company

Some profiles offer unusually specific topics: GPU compilers with Urszula Stachowiak, Haskell/Mu with Kamila Sawicka, and type-level programming in TypeScript and compilers with Mieszko Sabo.

A broad “Development” category makes these mentors look similar, even though the problems they can help with are very different. That suggests another useful improvement for the directory: show specific mentoring topics directly in the list, so a rare specialization does not get buried in a biography.

The mentoring lineup is only one part of the conference, but I hope this makes it easier to find people relevant to your interests and decide whether attending makes sense for you.

This is an independent analysis of public profiles. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.

Explore the mentor directory