From Appwrite and Microsoft to a Master's in CS - Haimantika Mitra on DevRel

The Rollback Café · Sep 4, 2026 · 34m

Women in tech are still too often told they have to choose between engineering, community, and leadership - Haimantika proves you can build all three into one powerful career. She also opens up about the “silly” side projects that quietly became career accelerators - including a GitHub Roast app that went viral, a Gen Z translator, and an AI plank coach built to solve her own workout problem. Those experiments weren’t just for fun. They became the fastest way to learn new tools, understand how products really work, and create proof that she could go far beyond tutorials.

You'll discover why…