Women engineers entering the field now are definitely in a better support system. By Sujata Menon (Java Developer, Marqeta) For a woman in tech today, there are quite a few resources out there to help one advance technically and professionally. This was not the case even 5 years ago. Being the lone woman engineer in [...]
Posts Tagged "DevChix"
From “n00b” To Engineer In One Year
October 3, 2012 – 8:00 am
I am joining Red Hat as a Associate Software Engineer. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco) It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, Twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer. Yes, the same person that [...]
Are You Aspiring To Code? Join The Club, Literally…
June 4, 2012 – 10:00 am
A conference attendee said she didn’t study computer science in school and didn’t know any code a year ago, but is now working as a full-time developer. By Melissa Tinitigan (Founder, Event Digerati) I’ve always been fascinated by technology, and I was hoping to learn more about the booming tech industry in San Francisco by [...]
Awesome DevChix Speakers At Fluent Conference (May 29-31 in San Francisco)
May 26, 2012 – 6:00 am
Here are awesome women developers who will be speaking at O’Reilly Fluent Conference (May 29-31 in SF). By Sarah Allen (Founder, Blazing Cloud) The O’Reilly Fluent Conference 2012 in San Francisco on May 29-31 has an incredible line up of speakers. The conference is generously supporting DexChix and other community projects with booth space. Come [...]
Femgineer Celebrates 5 Years Of Blogging Changes, Starting Up
March 18, 2012 – 6:00 am
A femgineer discusses the Silicon Valley and women in engineering. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) It’s been five years since I started blogging at Femgineer. I can vividly remember the process I went through when I was deciding on a name for the blog, I wanted something that would capture being feminine and [...]
Why Should We Increase Women’s Participation in Technology, and How To Start Coding
July 5, 2011 – 3:00 pm
By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder & Front-End Developer, Balance Media) A week ago, I read a letter to the editor in the New York Times penned by Dr. Jane Margolis, a researcher at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. In her letter, Dr. Margolis expressed the importance of continuing to support the participation [...]
How Do We Find, Hire, and Retain Women Developers?
May 20, 2011 – 12:05 pm
By Sonia Lyris (Member, DevChix) Calling all women developers for your opinions, experiences, advice, musings, rants, anecdotes or anything else you want to tell the companies who hire women developers about how they can do this more effectively. Please send your writings and include explicit permission for me to use your work in the final [...]
Breaking Up With “Technology” Was the Best Thing I Did Before Love With Food
March 21, 2011 – 10:06 pm
By Aihui Ong (Founding CEO & CTO, Love With Food) “I have a Computer Science background and I’m supposed to love technology.” I spent the first 8 years of my career specializing in enterprise financial systems, and made a name for myself in the enterprise world. I’ve consulted and engineered many Fortune 500 financial systems [...]
