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 "Woman Engineer"
Interview With JPL Systems Engineer Nagin Cox
February 13, 2013 – 8:00 am
The following are excerpts from an interview with JPL Engineer Nagin Cox. She helped send the Curiosity Rover to Mars in August 2012. By Sophia Viklund (Co-Founder, BackCode) & Esther Nam (Web Developer, Cars.com) Nagin Cox joined Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1993 and has since served as a systems engineer and manager on multiple [...]
Women With Dreams Of Becoming Software Engineers
February 6, 2013 – 6:00 am
Hackbright Academy is an all-female web development class that turns beginner programmers into employable junior software engineers. By Susan Tan (Alumna, Hackbright Academy) As a code challenge for BloomReach, I wrote a program in Python that took in 500,000 lines of input and distributed half a million unique wine bottles to 99,999 people, each with [...]
Pissed Off For Greatness
August 15, 2012 – 6:00 am
“If you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that means you’re okay with being mediocre.” – Ray Lewis By Ellora Israni (Co-Founder, she++) It’s extremely hard to sit down and write a blog post when you’re not entirely sure that what you have to say is interesting or relevant or even remotely helpful to the rest [...]
Why Shouldn’t A Woman Start A Software Technology Company?
May 27, 2012 – 9:00 am
“It’s high time we use technology and build the solution. This is why I – a woman, a mother, a professional – started and am leading this software technology company.” By Catheryne Nicholson (Co-Founder & CEO, MommaZoo) I’m an engineer. I’m a mother. I’m a leader. I’m co-founder of MommaZoo. As with most women, the [...]
How Poornima Vijayashanker Fell In Love with Building Software
May 25, 2012 – 8:00 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Semil Shah (Operations, Votizen) “In the Studio” continues this week with an engineer who began programming at the end high school, double-majored in CS/EE in college, dropped out of Stanford’s graduate CS program to become the second employee at Mint.com, and after spending some time at Intuit [...]
Engineering An Adventure, An Experience, An Opportunity To Grow
May 23, 2012 – 6:00 am
“I was only 22 and… the second engineer of a deepwater exploration project… in offshore Angola.” By Griselda Cuevas (Product Manager, Liquid Elephant) The timer had started running 30 minutes ago. I was sweating from the exertion of rigging up a 500-pound tool string with my crew and the nervousness of being responsible of running [...]
How I Won First Place At My First Hackathon
May 18, 2012 – 8:00 am
I am really amazed that we had completed a working product in less than two days. By Kimberly Hsiao (Co-Founder, Piggyback) Friday, May 11 was the first day of my first hackathon. Myself and Andy Jiang, co-founders at Piggyback, heard about the Chartboost Hackathon from Startup Digest and decided to check it out. The first [...]
Kleiner Perkins And Sequoia Fund $6.5M Round For Cross-Device Ad Targeter Drawbridge
May 10, 2012 – 1:00 pm
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Anthony Ha (Writer, TechCrunch) When two of the biggest names in venture capital (arguably still the biggest) both invest in a startup, you know it’s probably time to take notice. So yes, take notice: A cross-device ad targeting startup called Drawbridge has raised a $6.5 million Series [...]
Letters To A Young Engineer: How To Decide Where To Work
May 1, 2012 – 10:00 am
Here is advice a startup CTO would writes to herself – in hopes that other young people may find benefit. By Niniane Wang (CTO, Minted) Oftentimes throughout my life, I wished that I could time-travel and ask my future self for advice. I felt sure that in five or ten years, I would know exactly [...]
