Madrina: A Slack Career Coach Built for Women Software Engineers

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After the Grace Hopper Celebration was cancelled 14 days before it opened, the author built Madrina, a career coach that lives in Slack, during Anthropic's Code with Claude: Women in AI Hackathon. The tool is designed for women software engineers who often stall after hiring, citing limited advancement and being handed non-promotable "glue work." Madrina offers features such as a level-gap dashboard, weekly focus checks, drafted manager notes, promo-ready win logging, and a brag doc export. The demo uses a fictional engineer, Ana Rivera, and Madrina never sends messages on a user's behalf. The project also includes an MCP connector so users can check their progress outside Slack.

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