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Our speaker today is Jocelyn Goldfine, and she is director of engineering at Facebook.

She has a really fascinating history.

In fact, she started out sitting in your seats.

She got her bachelor's degree in computer science at Stanford.

She went on to co-found a company called Message One.

She went on to become a vice president at VMware,

and it's now been at Facebook for the last three years.

So we're going to do an interview today.

I'm going to spend about 40 minutes interviewing her,

and then I'm going to open it up to questions from the audience.

So I hope you'll spend some time thinking about the types of questions

that you'd like to ask Jocelyn.

So Jocelyn, welcome. Thank you very much. Why don't you start out by telling us a little bit about your career path from the Stanford student to a director of engineering at Facebook?

Boy, I could probably spend the entire lecture just answering this question.

Well, when I was a student, I really had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up.

And I had majored in computer science because I loved programming.

I loved the logic and the sort of analytical nature of it.

But I didn't really have a super clear idea of what being a software engineer was like, even after multiple summer internships.

And so I joined, straight out of college, I joined a company called Trilogy that was based in Austin, Texas,

mainly because Trilogy had a very different recruiting pitch than a lot of the other big software companies.

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