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From Roasting Coffee to Backend Development - Jessica Greene

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We talked about: 

  • Jessica’s background
  • Giving a talk at a tech conference about coffee
  • Jessica’s transition into tech (How to get started)
  • Going from learning to actually making money
  • Landing your first job in tech
  • Does your age matter when you’re trying to get a job?
  • Challenges that Jessica faced in the beginning of her career
  • Jessica’s role at PyLadies
  • Fighting the Imposter Syndrome
  • Generational differences in digital literacy and how to improve it
  • Events organized by PyLadies
  • Jessica’s beginnings at PyLadies (organizing events)
  • Jessica’s experience with public speaking
  • The impact of public speaking on your career
  • Tips for public speaking
  • Jessica’s work at Ecosia
  • Discrimination in the tech industry (and in general)
  • Finding Jessica online


    • Links:

    • Ecosia's website: https://www.ecosia.org/
    • Ecosia's blog: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/
    • PyLadies Berlin: https://berlin.pyladies.com/
    • PyLadies' Meetup: https://meetup.com/PyLadies-Berlin
    • Code Academy: https://www.codecademy.com/
    • Freecodecamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/
    • Coursera Machine Learning: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
    • ML Bookcamp code: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp
    • Google Summer code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
    • Outreachy website: https://www.outreachy.org/
    • Alumni Interview: https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2020-03-17-alumni-interview-jessica
    • Python pizza: https://python.pizza/
    • Pycon: https://pycon.it/en
    • Pycon 2022: https://2022.pycon.de/


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