Build With Her Magazine

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Build With Her is an independent editorial magazine. We cover the women building the infrastructure, AI systems, and platforms that power the modern internet. We assume technical fluency. We do not simplify.

Editorial Mission

The work that doesn't make the keynote.

Build With Her covers the engineering work that rarely earns a keynote slot: the architecture decisions, the incident postmortems, the platform rewrites, the reliability work done in the hours nobody tweets about. We commission stories from the people who were in the room. We edit for precision, not polish.

Issue 01 Contributors

Jordan Hayes, Imani Brooks, and Maya Reyes are the founding editorial voices of Build With Her Magazine. Their bylines appear throughout Issue 01.

Jordan Hayes
DevOps, SRE, reliability engineering
Imani Brooks
Artificial intelligence, ML systems, research
Maya Reyes
Cloud architecture, distributed systems
Editorial Standards
  • All stories are independently reported and edited.
  • We disclose any material relationships relevant to coverage.
  • We do not publish press releases or sponsored content.
  • Corrections are published prominently and without delay.
  • Contributors own their words. We own the edit.
Submissions

We accept pitches and full draft submissions. We are particularly interested in production war stories, architectural decisions with real tradeoffs, and perspectives from people doing the load bearing work.

Submit your story
Build With Her Magazine · Issue 01 · May 2026 · Published on the open web