Poornima Vijayashanker

Poornima Vijayashanker is currently the founder at Femgineer, an education startup that helps empower engineers, founders, and product leads to transform their ideas into tangible, high-impact products.
Poornima has also been a lecturer at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and an entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups.

She was the founding engineer at Mint.com, where she helped build, launch, and scale the product until it’s acquisition in 2009.

When she’s not building products or companies she enjoys Bikram yoga, rock climbing, and running. Poornima lives in sunny Palo Alto, CA with her boyfriend and two cats: Colby Jack and Riley.