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Jennifer Konikowski - Hot Takes on Being a Woman in Tech

Season 4, Episode 3 | October 19, 2021

In today's episode, Dan and Bekah talk to Jennifer Konikowski about building community for women in tech and her own experience as a woman in tech. She gives us some of her hot takes, and we are here for it 🔥

Jennifer Konikowski

Jennifer has 10 years of experience as a software engineer, working in Ruby and Rails, Go, Swift, Scala, Rust, PHP, Javascript, Java, Perl, and Python. She was the founder and organizer of PyLadies Boston and a founding member of Boston Ruby Women. She currently resides in Pittsburgh and works remotely at Splice. She also really loves Negronis.

Show Notes:

This week we welcome Jennifer Konikowski to the show to talk about being a woman in tech and building community for women in tech!

Jennifer brings her experience creating communities like Py Ladies Boston and Boston Ruby Women to the podcast, and talks about the value of learning to code even if you don't want to be a developer. She also talks about getting through toxic work environments, moving forward, and her hot takes on community and being a woman in tech.

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