About me : Hello there, I'm Ananya Jayakumar - 33 years old when I start this blog , 5 months into my pregnancy , 10 years experience in tech : Operations / Data analysis / ETL / dash-boarding / managing teams / Solving problems. Pregnancy - Slowing your career I just completed a personally fulfilling year onboarding a team and training them to perform, tackling fraud, building dashboards and creating automated ETL behind the dashboard. But since I'm going on maternity leave, I'm training folks on my job - making it easy to replace myself and jeopardizing a promo that I'd otherwise been well placed for and also having to coming back from maternity leave - and starting from scratch as if all the stuff I did before the leave does not count. It's also a time when my company is getting acquired, the business and products are changing and not the best time to be planning maternity. I feel like I have potential to be in a better place. Pregnancy - the baby's most i...