HashiCorp / IBM
Anna J McDougall
Award-winning engineering leader, TEDx speaker, and author of Amazon bestselling career guide "You Belong in Tech". She started coding at 8 and has since led teams across consulting, health tech, AI innovation, and media. In 2024, she won Software Engineering Leader of the Year with the WomenTech Global Awards; and in 2025, her technical interview structure, "The McDougall Method" was revealed in a blog post which shot to prominence.
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