About the Femgineer

Hi, I’m Poornima Vijayashanker.  I graduated from Duke with double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and moved to Silicon valley to be a femgineer.  I was the sole femgineer at Mint.com, a startup, based in down town Mountain View, which was acquired by Intuit.  Post acquisition I decided to leave Mint and start my own startup.  I truly love coding and solving engineering problems day and night.  When I’m not writing code, I write about coding and software architecture, and my experiences as a little femgineer in a mengineer’s world :)

2009
04/23
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  1. I’m glad I stumbled across your blog on the Women 2.0 twitter stream. I love Mint.com, I’ve been using it for almost a year. FINALLY, there was a solution that helped me keep track of my expenses on the go (mainly, on my phone). I paid off all my credit cards and just have a little over $1500 in school loans. Yes, most of the discipline in paying off the debt came from me but not being able to see how much my real net worth prevented me from getting rid of my debt before.

    It’s great to know there is a femgineer on the Mint team, I wish you much luck in your own startup venture. Incidentally, I went to the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend and thought it was an amazing experience, was Hacker Dojo something similar? I look forward to reading more, I wish I continued my degree in computer engineering, unfortunately, coding is not one of my talents.

    • Poornima Vijayashanker
    • December 16th, 2009

    Thanks a lot for using Mint.com! I’m happy you love it and find it useful and making your life better everyday. Good work on paying off your debt :)

    Hacker Dojo is a place in MV where entrepreneurs/engineers can go to work, its not an conference. Check it out here: http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/13/hacker-dojo-finally-a-hangout-where-coders-can-go-247/

  3. He he – femgineer in a mengineer’s world. I’ll have to remember that.

  4. I just signed up for Women 2.0’s Will it Launch? workshop and saw that you will be there. Looking forward to this workshop, I actually extended my visit to California to attend that workshop.

  5. Great presentation today at the MEMP. It really showed that you had rehearsed it well. I would have expected the same delivery and poise from a CEO twice your age, but not from an engineer. You also gave me and other entrepreneurial MEMP students inspiration to keep working on our own IT ventures with the balance of our waking hours, so many thanks.

    Best luck carrying this momentum and aplomb into your next venture.

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