Meet the QCon London 2027 Committee Members
QCon London 2027 Committee Member
Blanca Garcia Gil
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Transformational Coach and Principal Engineer, Founder, International Speaker, QCon London PC
Blanca Garcia Gil is a transformational coach for Staff+ engineers and an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). She has spent about 20 years in tech as an engineer. Over 7 years at the BBC, first as a senior engineer and later as a Principal Engineer on the Data Platform team, she built large-scale data ingestion pipelines and led teams that improved data warehouse access and data visualisation. She later built a data analytics platform from the ground up as lead analytics engineer at fintech startup topi.
Blanca founded StaffPlusEngineer.com, where she coaches Staff+ engineers, architects and technical leaders and runs workshops for engineering teams. She is a coach mentor and educator at Coach Masters Academy. She has been on the QCon London programme committee since 2023.
Blanca grew up in Spain, has lived in the United States and Australia, and is based in London.
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Session
Coaching Skills for Staff+ Engineers
Staff+ engineers hold more together than their titles show. They listen to a team that is stuck. They get several teams to agree on one design. They hand a hard problem to the right team and let that team grow.
