Highlights
“If code is the expression of your idea or solution, then your career path in tech is the expression of your passion and drive.”
That’s my mantra.
Since joining Intuit after grad school, I’ve had the opportunity to be a systems engineer (and one of only eight women in a building of 350 employees), a program manager, a product manager, a dev manager, and a social media manager. As a tech evangelist, I got to work with an amazing team on the Intuit Tech Culture program, with a goal to create an amazing tech ethos at Intuit and be part of the company’s platform transformation journey, where engineers can do the best work of their lives.
Now,as Tech Evangelist at Autodesk, I focus on efforts that galvanize the tech community to write, speak and promote their innovation, open source and expertise internally and externally in order to attract top tech talent, partners and customers.
Blogger
Podcast Host: Intuit Tech Heroes
Webinar Host and Moderator: Intuit Tech Stories
Open Source Program Champion (Autodesk, Intuit)
Inventor - 11 patents
Strategist on Developer Productivity and Experience
Community Builder
Change Management Specialist
Design Thinking Coach (innovation catalyst)
Public Speaker
Image provided by San Diego Magazine
Speaking Engagements:
2024
Moderator, The Big Bang of Universal Scene Description (Open USD), NVIDIA GTC
Speaker, Empower Her series, HireQuotient
Workshop Lead, Reimagine Your Next Chapter, Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Workshop Lead, “Owning and Managing your Imposter Syndrome”, Github
2023
Moderator, The Future of Look Development: Empowering Artists with OpenPBR with Adobe, Autodesk and LucasFilm
Speaker, Girl Geek X Elevate, “Beyond the Base”
Podcast Guest, “Teach the Geek”
Podcast Guest, “Speak your Mind Unapologetically “
Panelist, “Unlock Opportunities by Leveraging Mentorship & Sponsorship” by Athena and Intuit
2022
Podcast Guest, “The Essentials of an Open Source Mindset”, MLH’s The State of Developer Education podcast
Speaker (with ASWF), SIGGRAPH, “Amplifying Inclusion in Open Source: Intentional Actions Everyone Can Take”
Speaker, Girl Geek X Elevate, “It’s a hot market: Do you stay or do you leave?”
Moderator, Game Developers Conference, “Experimenting with USD in Game Pipelines”,
Podcast Guest, “How she got there”: Nxt Level, YouTube
Speaker, Lesbians Who tech: Pride Summit 2022, “Contributing to Open Source”
Speaker, Autodesk University: The Evolution of Open Source in Film Industry
2021
Host and moderator, “The Future is Female: Intuit Women of Data Engineering” webinar
Keynote, HP DevOps Summit, “The Inner Source Journey”
Speaker, GHC 2021 , “Dare to disrupt the numbers:Building inclusivity in Open Source”
Podcast Guest, “Choosing Grit”: Pathways to Resilience
2020
Speaker, Github Universe
Moderator, "Demystifying Software Architecture" - https://lnkd.in/dfukapz
Speaker, Open Core Summit/OCS 2020, "Building Open Source Program on a Shoe String Budget"
Speaker, San Diego Startup Month, "Rockstar Open Source Program"
Speaker, GHC 2020, An Engineer’s Essential Tool is Design Thinking
Keynote, Creative Mornings San Diego, "Spectrum" (as part of San Diego Design Week)
Speaker, Developer Week Global, "Design Thinking in Agile/SDLC"
Speaker, Behind the Brands
Open Source and Inner Source, BuiltIn: bit.ly/BuiltinInnerOpensource
2019
Launched Tech Heroes podcast: https://apple.co/3itWj2d
Speaker, Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC): https://www.intuit.com/blog/social-responsibility/ghc-2019/ ; https://engineering.salesforce.com/10-talks-we-cant-wait-to-hear-at-the-2019-grace-hopper-celebration-4ae87d6d4aa7 ; https://medium.com/@katie.gonzalez/grace-hopper-celebration-2019-vision-action-ed8475d3adb9
Comic-Con Museum + Intuit collaboration on Open Source: https://bit.ly/2XNAovc
Blog, Coding with Compassion (Accessibility): https://intuit.me/3ktj3RM
Industry Award Winner, https://bit.ly/3fIHXJG
Speaker, San Diego startup week: https://bit.ly/3kvff2v
BizTalk Radio, guest: http://kardiaventures.com/aliza-carpio-bistalk-interview/
Notable Achievements
Launched Autodesk Open Source Site
In February, 2022…Launched Autodesk’s first ever Open Source Site
Joined ASWF, Academy of Software Foundation D&I committee
Launched blog series featuring open source contributors and their open source projects
Established Intuit Open Source Office
In October, 2018…Formally established Intuit’s Open Source Office with Tech Lead, Rocio Montes (Staff Software Engineer). In two years,
Grew Intuit open source projects by 4x
From Zero to 32% women in tech maintainers
Intuit Open Source program highlighted in Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), KubeCon, DevWeek
Launched Hacktoberfest at Intuit
Established opensource.intuit.com
2020, San Diego Design Week (Founding Member)
In partnership with San Diego Mingei Museum, Intuit Inc and thought leaders from across San Diego and Tijuana, launched first ever San Diego Design Week.
Launched Intuit’s Tech Heroes podcast and Intuit’s Tech Stories Webinars
Tech Heroes podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-heroes/id1485312342
Tech Stories Webinars: https://talenteq.intuit.com/tech-stories-open-source-women-engineer-day
Resume
Image provided by The Office of Angela Scott and Jimmy Ferrari (Chateau Bel Age)
Aliza Carpio is Director, Tech Evangelist at Autodesk. Prior to this role, she was Technology Evangelist at Intuit. In her past role, she focused on initiatives that create an awesome tech culture for Intuit technologists, which leads to building Intuit's tech brand. A true "multi-potentialite" at heart, she is an inventor with several filed patents, an Innovation Catalyst and was the founder and podcast host of Intuit's Tech Heroes on iTunes which features Intuit and external technologists, the tech that inspires them and the work they love. She is San Diego Magazine's Industry Leader Award Winner of 2018, Outside of work, she conducts pro-bono social media consultation for women owned, micro-businesses in San Diego.
Experience
Director, Tech Evangelist, Autodesk
August, 2021-Present
Principal Tech Evangelist/Head of Tech Culture, Intuit
July, 2018 - August, 2021
Dev Productivity and Culture Strategy Consultant, Creatively Brave Enterprise (proprietress)
Tech Evangelist, Intuit TurboTax & Mint
2014-June, 2018
Social Media Manager, Intuit TurboTax Marketing Group
2012-2014
Public Speaker, Open Source| Dev Productivity and Experience | Tech Culture | Women in Tech - Present
Group Development Manager. Intuit
2008-2012
Senior Product Manager, Intuit
2005-2008
Systems Engineer,Intuit
2002-2005
Front end engineer and Launch Manager, HP
2000-2002
Education
M.A. Communications
Unites States International University
B.A. Chemistry and Economics
University of California, San Diego
Volunteer Experience
Board Member, Designate
EvoNexus
2016-2018
Pro-bono strategy consultant for female owned micro-businesses
2011-Present
Startup Coach (Design Thinking)
2012-Present
ASWF (Academy Software Foundation) Diversity and Inclusion Committee
2021-Present
Co-chair, Product Track || Open Source, Anitab.org Grace Hopper
2020-Present
Girl Develop It, Core Team
San Diego Chapter
2016-2019
Code with Her, volunteer coach 2020 - Present
DevNetwork, Advisory Board
2022-Present
Autodesk Product Guild (CONNECT Lead)
2022-Present
Autodesk Women’s Network Board Member, Women in Tech Global Lead (ERG)
2022-Present
Skills & Languages
Design Thinking Coach
Hackathon Guru
HTML
Javascript
Blogger, https://socialac.medium.com/
Recent Publications and Media
2023
Podcast Guest: Teach the Geek, Speak Your Mind Unapologetically
Builtin.com “What are short term career goals?”
2022
Podcast Guest: How She Got There, Major League Hacking
The State of Developer Education “The Essentials of an Open Source Mindset”
Women Engineer, “Software is Essential”
Testimonials
“Passion, boldness and an insatiable appetite for awesome. These are just a few ways to describe Aliza, although her full impact and skills would take volumes to complete. She has played many roles in her career, all preparing her to execute at the intersection of all of them. Part engineer, part product manager, part communications leader, and all innovator. She bridges disciplines and inspires generations, all in pursuit of impact. She has rare gifts to see what’s missing. The critical ingredient that prevented awesome. She leads with passion, blasting through boundaries like hurricane. Yet her communication skills allow her to be affective across all levels (SVP to front-line engineer) and audience size (1 to many). It has truly been a privilege to work with Aliza and look forward to seeing the impact she’ll make in the future”
“Words that come to mind to describe Aliza...smart, hard working, passionate, dedicated, thoughtful, and fun. Having Aliza on your team is a win situation.”
“Aliza is extremely talented at managing large-scale projects. Her insight into core issues assist everyone in driving to success in every project I’ve had the pleasure of working with her on. Balanced with her positive and caring attitude, she is very well respected.”
