#103: Madelyn Tavarez - How a Part-time Bootcamp helped her Become an Android Engineer
Breaking Into Startups24 Loka 2018

#103: Madelyn Tavarez - How a Part-time Bootcamp helped her Become an Android Engineer

Our guest on the podcast has a remarkable story. Madelyn Tavarez did a part-time bootcamp, while holding a full-time job. She taught herself how to code. And became a software engineer at Pinterest now building products for hundreds of millions of people. She is also a Dominican Republic-native who grew up in Washington Heights and due to her own drive and curiosity was able to change her circumstance. Her senior year of college she went from being a bartender to an “eat, pray, love” moment which took her to Italy. Which eventually played a big role in Madelyn deciding to teach herself how to code. Fast-forward to today, she works as an Android engineer at Pinterest. She also continues to get actively involved in different community projects, including the TECHNOLOchicas among others.

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#78: Ana Díaz-Hernández - Head of Sales for Interviewing.io & a Leader for the LatinX Tech Community

#78: Ana Díaz-Hernández - Head of Sales for Interviewing.io & a Leader for the LatinX Tech Community

Ana Díaz-Hernández is the Head of Sales at interviewing.io, a platform for engineers that set technical interviews and land jobs at top tech companies. Sacramento-born, Ana talks about how she leverag...

3 Maalis 20181h 5min

#77: Vicki Tan - Product Designer at Headspace talks about Mindfulness

#77: Vicki Tan - Product Designer at Headspace talks about Mindfulness

Prior to her current role as a rockstar product designer at Headspace, Vicki Tan holds an impressive portfolio having worked previously at Lyft and interned at Google. She has worked in the HR and als...

24 Helmi 20181h 13min

#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia

#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia

Gary Vaynerchuk does not need an introduction. For those of you who haven’t heard of him yet, he is not only a rockstar entrepreneur, he's an author and a speaker. He's a four-time New York Times best...

19 Helmi 201856min

#75: Heather Swan - Journey From Retail to an Enterprise Account Executive at Zoom

#75: Heather Swan - Journey From Retail to an Enterprise Account Executive at Zoom

A San Jose-native, Heather Swan is the Chief Happiness Officer at Zoom, a video conferencing tool that works on any device. She started as an employee #15 and now Zoom has grown to over 700,000 client...

31 Tammi 201832min

#74: Ian Harriman - from a Sales Development Rep to an Account Executive at Checkr

#74: Ian Harriman - from a Sales Development Rep to an Account Executive at Checkr

Southern Californian-native, Ian Harriman is a rockstar salesperson. He started as a sales development representative until he rose up to the ranks of being a mid-market account executive at Checkr, a...

12 Tammi 201855min

#73: Kyle Woumn - Software Engineer at Twilio, who Turned an Internship into a Full-time Offer

#73: Kyle Woumn - Software Engineer at Twilio, who Turned an Internship into a Full-time Offer

Today, we take a closer dive into getting internships and how you can leverage those to get full-time offers. Kyle Woumn is a fullstack engineer on the messaging experience team at Twilio, a cloud-co...

30 Joulu 201750min

#72: Marco Morawec - Founder of The Firehose Project (Remote Coding Program)

#72: Marco Morawec - Founder of The Firehose Project (Remote Coding Program)

Born in Germany, Marco Morawec is the co-founder of The Firehose Project, an online coding school that helped over a thousand people learn how to code remotely and become engineers. They also got a 1-...

18 Joulu 201752min

#71: Jon Deng - U.S. Army Captain who Became a Software Engineer at Snapchat

#71: Jon Deng - U.S. Army Captain who Became a Software Engineer at Snapchat

Jon Deng is a mentor who has helped several people break into tech. He is widely known as a software engineer at Snap Inc. Prior to tech, he was actually a platoon leader in the U.S. Army with 40 men ...

2 Joulu 201752min