Tech Talks: The Business Skills Every Developer Needs | Meetup #3
About this event
Tech Talks: The Business Skills Every Developer Needs | Meetup #3
No matter your role or seniority level, this talk will change how you show up at work. 💜
We're back with our second online edition because distance shouldn't be a barrier to any woman in our community learning, growing, and connecting. 🌟
We believe in supporting women's growth wherever they are. And this time, we're bringing you a guest speaker who knows better than most what it takes to build solutions that actually land: a Senior Data Scientist and AWS Community Builder who has spent years at the intersection of technical excellence and real-world impact: Darya Petrashka.
Whether you're a junior developer finding your footing, a senior engineer leading projects, or a data scientist navigating complex stakeholder environments, the skills Darya will share are the ones no one teaches you in a course, but everyone needs to grow.
Join us for an evening of honest conversation, practical takeaways, and real talk about what it actually takes to make an impact in tech.
Agenda
18:00 – Welcome & Introduction: Who we are and what drives this community
18:15 – Talk: "You are an intelligent business analyst": how I learned to talk to business -
Darya Petrashka - Senior Data Scientist at SLB | AWS Community Builder | Woman in AI.
18:45 – Q&A with Darya
19:00 – Closing & What's next
Event Details
📆 Date: Tuesday, 23rd June 2026
📍 Where: Online — link will be sent to members
Talk:
"You are an intelligent business analyst": how I learned to talk to business
Level: 100–200 / All levels welcome
Developers don’t need to become business analysts, but they do need business skills. This talk shows how learning to communicate with stakeholders, uncover real business needs, and bridge gaps between tech and business can dramatically increase your impact. Learn practical techniques to become a trusted technical partner and deliver solutions that truly matter.
I never planned to become a business analyst. In fact, I avoided it. I imagined endless meetings, unclear requirements, and conversations that had nothing to do with “real” technical work. I wanted to stay hands-on as a developer and data scientist.
But reality proved something important: you can't escape the business side if you want to build meaningful solutions. And once I learned how to talk to business stakeholders, everything changed: my impact, my influence, and the outcomes of the projects I worked on.
In this talk, we’ll explore the practical business skills every developer needs but is rarely taught:
✨ How to identify key stakeholders and understand what they really want
✨ How to navigate communication in international, cross-functional teams
✨ How to uncover business pain points before they become blockers
✨ How to fix broken communication loops
✨ How to become the go-to technical partner the business trusts
By the end, you won’t just see yourself as a strong technical contributor: you’ll see how to position yourself as an essential part of the broader business ecosystem, shaping better decisions and delivering solutions that truly matter.
Speaker: Darya Petrashka
Darya Petrashka is a Senior Data Scientist at SLB with over five years of experience specialising in Natural Language Processing and Generative AI. She builds intelligent, cloud-native solutions that solve concrete business problems.
An AWS Community Builder since 2022 and AWS Community Hackathon winner, Darya is a frequent speaker at AWS User Groups, AWS Community Days, PyCons, and AWS Summits across Europe and Asia. She holds multiple AWS and Microsoft certifications, including the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Specialty and the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
She is also an active and dedicated mentor, guiding aspiring data and cloud professionals, many from non-developer backgrounds, in developing the skills and confidence they need to grow in tech.
We can't wait to see you there. Let's learn, connect, and build an incredible AWS community together! 💜
Caroline, Jagoda, Martina, and Suzana
Code of Conduct
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