Free mentorship for underrepresented groups in tech
Tupu is a non-profit initiative to offer free mentorship to women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups in the tech industry
For mentors For menteesEncouraging diversity in tech, one at a time
Statistics say that close to 40 percent of women with engineering degrees either leave the profession or never enter the field, and women quit jobs in tech at twice the rate that men do. Mentoring has been shown to drastically improve retention rates and help women advance faster in their careers. Our mission is to use the power of mentorship to help increase diversity in tech.
Mentoring for every tech role
Tupu is available for every role in tech (software engineer, SRE, manager, product manager, tech writer, marketing, etc.) and every career level (from juniors to VP level). We are doing our best to match mentors and mentees based on their aspirations, experiences, and interests. Typically we are matching more senior mentors with more junior mentees, but matching at around the same level can also work well. Even pretty senior mentees are benefiting from mentorship because there’s always room to grow. And we hear all the time that the mentors are learning just as much from their mentees.
Free mentoring with amazing volunteer mentors
The mentors on Tupu are volunteers. We ask them to spend around 30 minutes per week or every two weeks with their mentees, over Zoom, at a time that is convenient for them. They do this because they want to contribute back, because they’d like to see more diversity in tech, and because they often learn a lot from their mentees as well.
Meet a few of our amazing mentors

Adeyemi Adekorede
Senior Software Engineer, Eko Innovation Centre NG

Anagha Mudigonda
Engineering Manager, Dropbox

Andrew Moldovan
Principal Cloud UI Lead, Elastic

Anna Ossowski
Developer Relations, Elastic

Bill Mulligan
Telco Developer Advocate, Kubermatic

Blayze Stefaniak
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Carlos Pérez-Aradros Herce
Principal Engineer, Elastic

Chinedu Orie
Software Engineer

Christian Ștefănescu
Freelancer

Christina Braks
VP of Product, Avea Solutions

Cody Fletcher
Software Developer & Entrepreneur

Eloy Coto
Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Ewa Fijołek
Director of Software Development, Dynatrace

Friedrich Koebler
Vice President Of Engineering, Exasol

Harry Marr
Senior Engineering Manager, GitHub

Israel Carberry
Engineering Manager, Firebrand Technologies

Javier Uruen Val
Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

Jon Plummer
Director Of User Experience, Concentric Sky

Jorge Salamero Sanz
Director of Product Management, Sysdig

Kim Beaudin
Director of Development, Yellow Pencil

Leah Brezovec-Ryding
Project Manager, Deloitte

Lorenzo Mangani
CEO, QXIP

Madhura Chopda
Director of engineering, Elastic

Mick Halsband
Founding Partner, Lunar Ventures

Natalie Pistunovich
Lead Developer Advocate, Aerospike

Nicholas Roche
Growth Consultant, Salesprocess.io

Pablo Musa
Curriculum Architect, Elastic

Panagiotis Moustafellos
SRE Technical Lead, Elastic

Raluca Badoi
Software Engineer, HeyJobs

Raya Fratkina
Director of engineering, Elastic

Sabeen Syed
Engineering manager, Hashicorp

Stephanie Jackson
Site Reliability Engineer, Elastic

Thomas Reynolds
Executive Technology Director, Instrument

Tim Banks
Technical Account Manager, Mission

Vijay Samuel
Member Of Technical Staff 2, eBay