January 7: Women in Tech Weekly Issue 40

It’s officially 2020, a new year, a new decade even, and we’re back with more wonderful stories and brilliant resources from and for amazing women in our Women in Tech Weekly! I hope you had a great time during the holidays and I wish you only that you remain as awesome and inspiring as you are… Everything else, you’ll achieve yourself, because you’re a badass! ?
Hope you enjoy the read, and make sure to check out the submission form below, so next time, you can read about yourself ?
Featured Woman ??
Karina and Nina Talks
Karina is the definition of a badass! By the age of 22, she has already managed to win countless competitions and challenges and created a name for herself in the sphere of UX in Brazil! How was she able to do it all? Because she doesn’t get scared of her ambitious goals and just goes for it. Follow her for a regular dose of inspiration and to learn more about UX and design!
Learn about Karina’s story here!

Celebrations ??
Christina made a career change from Marketing to Development!
In her own words:
“I taught myself to code while working in Marketing full-time. This month, I accepted an offer for my first full-time software development job! This is a huge accomplishment for me since I’m self-taught. I’m nervous but really excited for this high-growth season!”
A post shared by Christina (@christina.codes) on Dec 29, 2019 at 5:11pm PST
Magda won an Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Foundational course and got selected as one of a few student leaders!
In her own words:
“I won an Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Foundational Udacity course! New year, new skills, can’t wait to start learning ??? Also, I got selected as one of a few student leaders for the 10k+ community! ?”
Tomorrow is my last day working at my current company and the main thing I'm doing right now is handing over my projects to other people AND working on documentation. 👩🏻💻 One of the main skills any developer should have is to be able to 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 to others ❗Remember that 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 👯 Commenting is an additional tool that a developer can choose to use or not. For me, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞. What do you think? 📸@digitalwandering #programming #python #coding #datascientist #developer #datascience #girlsinstem #womeninstem #stemgirls #geekgirl #digitalnomadgirls #digitalnomadlife #techinfluencer #travelingprogrammer #polishgirl #coder #codergirl #womenwhocode #womenintech #techlife #techgirl #techinfluencer #developer #devgirl #developers #geek #careergoals #newjob#developer #devgirl #developers #geek #careergoals #newjob
A post shared by Magda | Data Scientist (@travelingprogrammer) on Dec 10, 2019 at 5:20am PST
Anto started making YouTube videos!
In her own words:
“Was feeling called to create new things in 2020 and share what life at university for Computer Science will be like starting this semester.”
A post shared by anto || CS student (@thatcodingyogi) on Nov 28, 2019 at 4:45pm PST
Natasha published her work in Nature journal!
In her own words:
“We got a Nature paper published a couple of days ago. The paper is very meaningful in the field of AI and medicine.”
A post shared by @ blonde_ai on Dec 28, 2019 at 1:44pm PST
Jenny registered her company!
Codenbyte LLC is an official company now!!
This is huge, Jenny, congratulations! We are all so excited for you and very proud of you. Can’t wait to see what you get up to with it!