Rupa Dachere
CEO, President & Founder at Thrive-WiSE
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRupa Dachere is an entrepreneurial technology leader and founder with 13 years of experience focused on retaining and advancing women engineers and technologists. As CEO and President of Thrive-WiSE (formerly CodeChix), she builds programs—micro-conferences, safe-space initiatives, ally training, and spotlighting efforts—that blend technical depth with cultural change to keep diverse talent thriving in industry. A recognized thought leader, she’s received IEEE and Anita Borg accolades and has advised multiple university computer science and engineering colleges. Based in Palo Alto, she leverages a network of thousands of women engineers and allies to pilot scalable interventions and drive measurable retention outcomes. Less obvious: she left full-time corporate work in 2018 to pursue mission-driven impact full time, demonstrating a willingness to trade conventional career paths for systems-level change.
13 years of coding experience
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
proximity-sensor7
proximity4
linux4
gpio4
sensor4
python3
machine-learning3
home-automation2
openflow2
automation2
devrel2
raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rdachere/whosthere
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:100 commits in 1 month
CodeChix-OpenSource/CodeChix-Technical-Curriculums
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 months
hands-onpythoncorporationshandsmachine-learning
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