Mary Ann Belarmino

Mary Ann Belarmino is currently the Sr. Director of Software Quality at Western Digital. Before Western Digital, she was the Director of Quality Services in Pegasystems where she lead multiple quality-focused groups - Quality Excellence group (focused on quality discipline and shift-left best practices, and quality assurance), and Quality Productivity group (focused on building test frameworks, visualization and productivity tools). Prior to this role, Mary Ann was also the Sr. Product Manager for Application Quality in Pegasystems. Before Pegasystems, Mary Ann worked at MathWorks for 14 years where she held multiple roles - product lead, software engineer, quality engineer - in the areas of embedded targets, digital signal processing, and cloud. Mary Ann graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in BS in Applied Physics. Her experience also includes being a junior instructor at the University of the Philippines (UP) & University of Asia and the Pacific (UAP), and volunteer teaching for high school students from under-represented communities in the Philippines.