How to Speak Up in Engineering Meetings as a Woman in Tech
For most of my first year as a software engineer, I barely spoke in engineering meetings. I had answers, opinions, even tech…
For most of my first year as a software engineer, I barely spoke in engineering meetings. I had answers, opinions, even tech…
The first time my phone buzzed with a PagerDuty alert, I was three months into my first software engineering job, alone in a…
For two years, I was the only woman on a team of eleven engineers, and most days I did not realise how much energy I was spe…
This is a story about lessons from debugging as a junior software engineer, but really it is a story about what happens when…
Your first code review junior developer moment is not the moment you find out whether you are good enough. It is the moment…
I used to start almost every Slack message with "sorry to bother" or "just wondering, no rush." I though…
The thing nobody tells you about pull request feedback is how personal it can feel when you're already the only woman on…
Photo by CoWomen on Unsplash I used to do this thing without even realizing it. Every time I walked into a lecture hall, a m…
Photo by Bluestonex on Unsplash They teach you data structures. They teach you algorithms. They teach you how to think…
There is this moment I keep coming back to. I was sitting in my first algorithms class, and the professor asked us to pair u…
How My CS Brain Helps Me Travel Smarter (And Why You Should Think Like a Programmer on Your Next Trip) Sometimes the best …