Stacy Kirk has always had entrepreneurial dreams but she found that one of the biggest obstacles to growth was fear. Over her 15 years of technical leadership, she found that many of the women that she mentored and led had similar fears that blocked their career and technical growth. Stacy will share her account of how her fears stifled her career and how the realization of one of her deepest fears became her biggest change agent. In this open and honest conversation, she will talk about how she overcame her fears and utilized them to drive both her technical knowledge and business success...
Stacy Kirk
As a software QA architect, agile coach, coder, and speaker, Stacy Kirk champions quality and process innovation in software development. She has led global IT teams to deliver cutting-edge web, mobile, and enterprise applications in a variety of industries from advertising to security. Stacy founded QualityWorks Consulting Group and nodeqa.io, an international firm that has become a global leader in DevOps best practices. Her consultants create products, tools, processes, and frameworks that enable businesses to accelerate software delivery. QualityWorks’ services include manual and automated testing of web and mobile applications, with a specialty in designing continuous delivery automation frameworks for performance, database, API, and mobile test efficiency.