Blanca Garcia Gil

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.