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, BizeeBee. 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 
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.
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/
He he – femgineer in a mengineer’s world. I’ll have to remember that.
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.
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.
Fabulous blog!
Silly thing, but have you ever thought about enabling Pretty Permalinks in WordPress?
Awesome page you got here.
btw computer does’nt know the difference between femgineer and mengineer’s code. may be soon it evolve to learn about the differences i presume !!
No need to tell the difference, thats what makes it awesome!
Hi Poornima,
Great blog. I am still reading through it. Thanks for pointing out the hacker dojo link. I recently moved to bay area and I was looking for something like hacker dojo
Best of luck with BizeeBee..I am sure it will rock like mint.com !
Deb
I’d like to read about coding and software architecture and your engineering problem solving experiences. But why do you have emphasize so much on the word femgineer, which I am not even sure that’s a valid word. This text area highlights it in red as if it does not recognize that word or as if it was a typo.
Kevin – Thanks I’m glad you enjoy the blog. Femgineer is a made up word! Its how I’ve chosen to brand myself, and all female engineers who aspire to be sophisticated and can code.
Congrats on your blog! And of course the exit with Mint
Best of luck with the new startup! Would love to hear more.
Hi Poornima,
Stumbled across this blog by accident through my Google Reader off another feed. In any event, would love to connect. Sounds like you got a pretty good blog going.
Hi Poornima!
I really like your blog, and I wanted to share another site with you that might be of interest — Stemming (http://stemming.org), a collaborative blog and social network for women in science and technology. We’d love to have your perspective on our blog and on the site in general!
Hi Poornima,
I really enjoyed your talk and chatting with you at the Hub in San Francisco last night. Love your blog, eventhough I am not a Femgineer. Cheers and I hope our paths will cross again.
Reading your blog was inspirational. Keep up the awesome work!