As a software designer at Intuit, it’s my responsibility to create products and services that everyone can use, regardless of their level of physical, sensory, or cognitive ability. After all, people depend on Intuit applications to lead independent financial lives, and that kind of empowerment begins with accessibility. I joined Intuit’s Accessibility Champions team (now 1000-members strong) to help fulfill this mission, and to make sure we’re accommodating the needs of all of our customers. And then discovered in the course of my work that I had accessibility needs of my own.  My journe ..read more

The premise of data science is simple enough: turning data into insights, and using these insights to solve problems. But it’s a field with possibilities as diverse as the people who practice it.  Whether tracking the spread of COVID-19, predicting the future impact of climate change, making smart factories smarter, or delivering personalized e-commerce shopping experiences to consumers, applied data science has become ubiquitous in modern life.   For Intuit data scientists, it’s all about unleashing the power of data to transform the world of consumer, self-employed, and small ..read more

How do you get from the cockpit of a helicopter flight simulator to the top ranks of the global data science community? For Shir Meir Lador, the journey was fueled by twin passions for math and leadership.  As a flight instructor in the Israeli Air Force, Shir loved teaching, coaching, and helping people grow into their full potential. When her data science career brought her to Intuit, she saw an opportunity to apply the same skills as a team leader while gaining a broader perspective on the business. “I wanted to develop other parts of my brain, and now I get to be a mentor here, as wel ..read more

“The open source community is an environment of mutual respect and trust for everyone, with appreciation and value for other people’s opinions. It’s a welcoming and inviting place for people to work together and share goals and ideas. Beyond the technical aspect, it reveals a wonderful side of human beings.”           — Rocio Montes, Staff Software Engineer, Intuit In a tech industry where diversity remains a work in progress, the open source movement offers both cause for optimism and a practical way forward.  With low barriers to entry and a focus on what you ca ..read more

This blog post is co-authored by Intuit Staff Software Engineer, Rocio Montes, and Principal Tech Evangelist, Aliza Carpio. InnerSource isn’t just a methodology. It’s a way of life.  Just as open source has reshaped and overturned traditional notions of ownership across the global software development community, InnerSource changes the way we work and innovate inside our own organizations.  By allowing other engineers to contribute to a codebase, not just the members of your own team, we can deliver better results for our business and our customers. At the same time, InnerSource can ..read more

It started with a dare. At KubeCon 2018, one of the Kubernetes Founding Engineers at Google asked us  – with a wink – to let him know when we planned to migrate TurboTax to Kubernetes. At the time, this was an audacious challenge—the task seemed almost unsurmountable. Very few organizations had done more than tiptoe toward running business-critical applications on Kubernetes. Intuit was already running microservices in production, but as a complex application involving hundreds of microservices and serving millions of customers, TurboTax was another matter. Would the technology be able to ..read more

When faced with a new situation, sometimes our response is to shrink ourselves, minimize our personality or style to fit in, and make less waves. Ruby Sherman has the opposite advice and the experience to back up the claim that disruption leads to progress, especially in the tech world. As a Senior IT Group Manager of Tech 4 Intuit and site co-leader of the Intuit Latino Network, Ruby offers her insights on how supporting diversity leads to more creativity and accelerates innovation. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what brought you to Intuit. I am Native American, Mexican and Jewish an ..read more

Time and again, data science has been touted as the hottest career option in the 21st century. But what does a day in the life of a data scientist look like?  We have numerous stories of engineers solving complex challenges that result in incredible benefits to Intuit customers. Our engineers from various disciplines, titles, global locations, and backgrounds speak of their career trajectories at Intuit and how they unlock financial challenges for millions of people.   Analytics India Magazine (AIM) got in touch with Sadaf Sayyad, data scientist at Intuit, who described a typica ..read more

As a software designer at Intuit, it’s my responsibility to create products and services that everyone can use, regardless of their level of physical, sensory, or cognitive ability. After all, people depend on Intuit applications to lead independent financial lives, and that kind of empowerment begins with accessibility. I joined Intuit’s Accessibility Champions team (now 1000-members strong) to help fulfill this mission, and to make sure we’re accommodating the needs of all of our customers. And then discovered in the course of my work that I had accessibility needs of my own.  My journe ..read more

The premise of data science is simple enough: turning data into insights, and using these insights to solve problems. But it’s a field with possibilities as diverse as the people who practice it.  Whether tracking the spread of COVID-19, predicting the future impact of climate change, making smart factories smarter, or delivering personalized e-commerce shopping experiences to consumers, applied data science has become ubiquitous in modern life.   For Intuit data scientists, it’s all about unleashing the power of data to transform the world of consumer, self-employed, and small ..read more