About Hilary Stohs-Krause, Ifat Ribon

Hilary Stohs-Krause is a senior software engineer at Zscaler. She volunteers regularly with several tech and community organizations, including as an organizer for Madison Women in Tech and board member for Forward Fest, Wisconsin’s largest tech and entrepreneurship festival. She loves board games and bourbon barrel-aged stouts. She’ll read any fantasy or sci-fi she can get her hands on.

Ifat is a Principal Architect at LaunchPad Lab in Chicago. She enjoys untangling complex problems, finding the right words for hard things, and helping teams make confident technical decisions. She’s a big fan of good abstractions, long runs along the lakeshore, and finding the signal in the noise.