Awalin Sopan is a software engineer at FireEye, an enterprise cybersecurity company that provides products and services to protect against advanced cyber threats. FireEye’s clientele include Target, Sony and even Bangladesh Bank. Awalin Sopan did her undergrad in CSE from BUET and then moved to America to pursue a graduate program in Machine Learning and Data visualization from University of Maryland, College Park. During this time she did a summer internship at IBM and then joined MicroStrategy as a research scientist. After a year, she joined FireEye.
In this episode we talk about security, being safe on the internet, extracting useful information from a dataset, strategies when learning something new, women in STEM, mentorship and much more.