Monica started Tupu after leaving Elastic when she realized that she will miss the internal mentoring program at Elastic and that no other free mentorship platform exists. In her day job, Monica is the founder & CEO of Xata.io, a serverless database for Jamstack and Low-code. Before, she served as Director of Engineering at Elastic for many years, after her company Packetbeat was acquired by Elastic in 2015. Outside work, she enjoys traveling and is usually busy raising her daughter.