Poornima has been speaking in public for 20+ years and has given hundreds of talks worldwide. She was the founding engineer at Mint.com, and most recently was at Apple as a Senior Software Engineer and Senior Engineering Program Manager — where she deepened her appreciation for how communicating clearly across every context, from one-on-ones to all-hands to cross-functional leadership, is what separates good engineers from great ones.
That experience shaped Femgineer — giving engineers, PMs, and technical leaders the systems to make their expertise, experience, and judgment impossible to ignore.
Built by an engineer. Taught to builders.
Femgineer was founded on a simple observation: the most technically gifted people in the room are often the least heard. Not because their ideas are wrong — but because they haven’t been given the systems to communicate them.
From the early days of Mint.com to Apple, Poornima saw this pattern repeat across every level of the industry. The Communication Stack is the system she built to fix it — layered, learnable, and designed for the way technical minds work.
Everything Femgineer teaches has been tested in the rooms that matter: engineering all-hands, executive stakeholder meetings, technical conferences, and the one-on-ones where careers are actually decided.