Abby Fichtner

Abby built her career developing bleeding-edge technology for startups and coaching teams on how to improve how they develop software. These days, she focuses on helping hackers and entrepreneurs working to build amazing things. Hacker in Residence for Harvard Innovation Lab and creator of Hack Boston, Abby was named an Innovation Amplifier by the Boston Globe and one of the top women in Boston Tech. She launched Boston’s Big Data Hacker Space and spent a couple of really fun years as Microsoft’s Evangelist for Startups, where she got to help hundreds of early stage companies as they build out the next generation of technology. Abby writes one of the Top Agile blogs (HackerChick.com), runs Boston’s 3500 member Lean Startup Circle, teaches workshops for MIT, Harvard, Northeastern and TechStars (to name a few) and just started working on her very first book.