16 Inspiring Women Engineers to Watch
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Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com 16 Inspiring Women Engineers To Watch Women's engineering school Hackbright Academy is excited to share some updates from graduates of the software engineering fellowship. Check out what these 16 women are doing now at their companies - and what languages, frameworks, databases and other technologies these engineers use on the job! Software Engineer, Aclima Tiffany Williams is a software engineer at Aclima, where she builds software tools to ingest, process and manage city-scale environmental data sets enabled by Aclima’s sensor networks. Follow her on Twitter at @twilliamsphd. Technologies: Python, SQL, Cassandra, MariaDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Software Engineer, Eventbrite 1 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Maggie Shine works on backend and frontend application development to make buying a ticket on Eventbrite a great experience. In 2014, she helped build a WiFi-enabled basal body temperature fertility tracking device at a hardware hackathon. Follow her on Twitter at @magksh. Technologies: Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, Redis, Backbone, Marionette, React, Sass User Experience Engineer, GoDaddy 2 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Terri Wong is in the user experience and design group at GoDaddy, where she helps bring innovative product concepts to life in design and development. She helps define and deliver new features, testing new concepts. Follow her on Twitter at @terriwonglee. Technologies: JavaScript, React, Node, Less, SCSS, Framer, Sketch, Figma, InVision Software Engineer, Google 3 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Nicole Ziemlak spent over a year as a software engineer at Minted developing their e-commerce infrastructure after Hackbright, then joined the Google Store team to help build an e-commerce platform to sell the latest hardware from Google. Follow her on Twitter at @imnikkiz. Technologies: Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and a host of Google proprietary technologies Data Engineer, IMVU 4 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Marlene Hirose is a data engineer at IMVU, where she maintains and creates tools for automation of data ETL for use by data analysts and scientist. She joined IMVU as a consultant, and celebrated her one year full-time-versary this week! Follow her on Twitter at @mariki816. Technologies: HiveQL, Hadoop, Scala, Spark, Python, Tableau Software Engineer in Test, Kahuna 5 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Shilpa Sirur works in software development at Kahuna to design and execute testability of a product feature, providing feedback on its quality. Prior to attending Hackbright's engineering fellowship, she worked as a QA engineer at SurveyMonkey for two years. Technologies: Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Pytest, Nosetests, Unittests, Jenkins, Testrail, Sauce Labs, Google App Engine, SQL Software Engineer, New Relic 6 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Erika Arnold writes stable, lightweight machine code at New Relic that monitors the performance of customers' applications. She gives back by volunteering as a Mentor at Hackbright Academy from the New Relic Portland office. Follow her on Twitter at @erikabugs. Technologies: C, Go, PHP, Python, Docker Software Engineer, Radius Intelligence 7 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Susan Chin is a software engineer at Radius Intelligence, where she aggregates data to pass down the pipeline that builds the Radius Business Graph. She joined Radius first as an engineering intern after Hackbright, and is now full-time. Follow her on Twitter at @susancodes. Technologies: Python, Spark, Databricks, AWS (S3, EC2, EMR, RDS), PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Rundeck Application Engineer, Slack 8 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Carly Robinson works as an application engineer at Slack - building product features, design and implement API methods, and improve performance and reliability of Slack's backend infrastructure. Follow her on Twitter at @carlyhasredhair. Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Hack/HHVM, AWS, Solr, Redis, Java, Linux Software Engineer, Square 9 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Liana Lo is building the payment routing system behind Square Cash along with a front-end admin user interface for simple payment routing rule management. After Hackbright, she worked as a full- stack developer at Prezi for a year before joining Square. Follow her on Twitter at @lilohacks. Technologies: Java, MySQL, Ruby, JavaScript Lead Software Engineer, SurveyMonkey 10 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Louise Fox is the tech lead for the mobile team at SurveyMonkey, where she's been working for over 3 years. Her role involves code reviewing, new features, and creating React patterns for other people to use. Follow her on Twitter at @kaboomfox. Technologies: Python, Node, React, sometimes Java and Objective C Technology Leadership Program I Engineer, Target 11 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Paola Socorro is in her first rotation in Target's Technology Leadership Program, where she is building APIs and restructuring the CI/CD pipeline to meet the newest standards. Follow her on Twitter at @paromi. Technologies: Java, Groovy, Scala, Spock, Springboot, Gradle, Chef, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nginx, node-proxy, Gatling, Openstack Software Engineer, Terra Bella (Google) 12 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Danielle Levi works on the front-end web application at Terra Bella (acquired by Google), enabling order entry for satellite imagery and status tracking in the imaging pipeline. She is currently volunteering as a mentor at Hackbright Academy. Follow her on Twitter at @danislevi. Technologies: JavaScript, Polymer, (Google) Closure, Karma/Jasmine Software Engineer, Uber 13 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Theresa Cay is a software engineer at Uber on the developer experience team in core infrastructure. She works to increase developer productivity and efficiency through automation, tooling, and information. Follow her on Twitter at @theresa_clare. Technologies: Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, Tornado, Flask, Node, React, MySQL, Jenkins, Puppet, Vagrant, AWS (EC2 & S3), Elasticsearch, Sphinx, Phabricator, Git Software Engineer, Wantify 14 / 16 Hackbright Academy Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than UC Berkeley and Stanford each year. https://hackbrightacademy.com Breanna Turcsanyi is a software engineer and team lead at Wantify. She leads a team of 6 at an early-stage startup, building a product for small businesses with scalable, modular architecture that allows for feature changes and future adjustments. Follow her on Twitter