# International Women in Engineering Day: reflections from our VP of Engineering, Myra Fulton

DevFeed: [International Women in Engineering Day: reflections from our VP of Engineering, Myra Fulton](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/international-women-in-engineering-day-reflections-from-our-vp-of-engineering-myra-fulton-32386.md>)

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Author: Skyscanner Engineering

Published: 2022-06-23T08:08:17Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Stories by Skyscanner Engineering on Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stories-by-skyscanner-engineering-on-medium.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [Support](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/support.md>)

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## AI overview

An interview with Skyscanner VP of Engineering Myra Fulton about her path from hospitality studies to software engineering leadership. She discusses lessons from support and mortgage development roles, including the importance of documentation, code quality, testing, and the real-world impact of software defects.

## Source excerpt

Skyscanner VP of Engineering, Myra Fulton She is Skyscanner's most senior female engineer, but Myra Fulton's career as she knows it almost didn't happen -- a last-minute decision to change her university course from hospitality to engineering set her on a completely different path to the one she'd intended. This International Women In Engineering Day, we sat down with Myra to hear her about her journey to the top. Myra, what lead you to engineering originally -- was it always the plan? Engineering was very much not the plan -- I wanted to get into hospitality, and had dreams of running a hotel group. But fate -- in the form of an amazing teacher called Mr Haggerty -- intervened. He convinced me to take up computer science and basically changed the course of my career. He then did the same for a fellow engineer here at Skyscanner, Mhairi McClair several years later! So thank you, Mr Haggerty. The way Mr Haggerty taught computer science brought the subject to life -- I loved how you could solve problems in really interesting ways, and doing that with technology was exciting. It suited my analytical brain, so I decided to switch my uni course from Hospitality Management to Computer Studies. What happened next -- what was your journey to Skyscanner? I graduated with a first class honours spent a year's placement with IBM. After graduating, I got on the grad programme with a bank and spent nine years there. My career started in a number of first and second line support focused roles where I learned the importance of good handover documentation and run-books. I then got the privilege to lead the mortgage development team where I started to learn the other side of software development. It was during my time there that said bank had announced they'd undercharged people for mortgages due to a bug in services. While I wasn't involved in that bug, it really taught me the fragility of software and the importance of the quality of code, of testing and of the impact that can be made on