Portfolio

Co-hosted an episode of The Playbook, an MIT LGO Podcast to interview Andrea Jones (LGO ‘06) for Season 4 Ep. 1 where we discussed all about Andrea's journey creating her own consultancy based on a...

I finished my first triathlon! The Rev3 New England Olympic consisted of a 1500m swim, 40k bike ride and a 10k run. I was so proud to cross the finish line and have all my months of training pay of...

Launch day for Irth App! Irth is founded by Kimberly Seals Allers, the founder of non-profit Narrative Nation, author, journalist and maternal health advocate. I worked with Kimberly and a incredib...

I spoke about creating inclusive products and futures at Worklife.vc’s first annual meeting “Now, New, Next” in the Shifting The Future of Business & Design track.

I wrote a blog post about how I stumbled into computer science and wished I had a resource like Girls4Tech – an educational initiative from Mastercard now supported by Discovery Education - which h...

Launched We Read Too for the iPad!

I rode my first century! Started in Oakland and rode up to Sacramento, 108 miles, 4k+ feet of elevation and 7 hours 44 minutes later we were done. Amazing group of folks who encouraged me along the...

I was a guest on Range's Lead Time Chats podcast which features conversations about engineering leadership. I spoke with Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, about common challenges early career e...

I wrote a chapter "How to Help Your New Grad Engineer Navigate Work" in 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know, edited by Camille Fournier and published by O'Reilly Media.

Swift for Good is a book all about Swift and iOS development written by over 20 top authors in the mobile development community. All the proceeds of the book were donated to Black Girls Code. I wro...

I wrote for the Debugger about Apple's fall event from the developer perspective.

I wrote an article on The Debugger, a Medium publication, about Telepath a new social network aiming to be a kinder Twitter.

I spoke with Saron Yitbarek and Josh Puetz on DevNews.

I was interviewed by FastWeb about my software engineering career for their Women in STEM series.

I was a panelist for VMWare's Engage and Empower Series: Celebrating Black Voices in Tech.

I gave a talk at try! Swift NYC on customizing iOS notifications.

I spoke in Amsterdam at AppDevCon about best practices for notification features.

I gave a talk at UIKonf in Berlin about inclusive and accessible mobile development.

I taught two workshops on Collection Views with Lists at the Swift Alps, an online experimental conference.

I was featured on the App Store about my developer journey in creating We Read Too.

I did a Q&A with Poets&Writers about my plans for We Read Too.

I spoke with Teen Vogue about by journey in launching and growing We Read Too.

I interviewed with Motherboard by Vice about why I created We Read Too.

I interviewed with Mashable about We Read Too.

I spoke with Anna Wiener about the tech industry's lack of diversity for the New Yorker.

I was featured on Scientific American's blog for a STEM Student Spotlight.

I spoke with Scott Hanselman on his podcast Hanselminutes about studying computer science versus being a software engineer in the "real world".

I was a guest on the Revision Path podcast.

I discussed my journey of launching We Read Too on the podcast Launched.

I was interviewed by Michaela Pereira on the HLN network to speak about We Read Too.

I spoke with Bustle about my journey in tech and the importance of mentoring & having a love of learning.

I chatted with Tolu Ajayi on her podcast UI Narrative about how designers can better collaborate with engineers and best practices for UI on iOS.

I was a guest on Another Round hosted by Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton.

I became a CODE2040 fellow, joining the 5th cohort since CODE2040's founding.

I was interviewed by the Apple Newsroom team about We Read Too and trends in Black literature.

I gave a talk at Laracon NYC about launching side projects.

I gave a talk at dotSwift Paris about Swift Techniques in testing.

I was the opening keynote speaker for the 360iDev 2019 conference.

We Read Too for Android launches on the Google Play Store, the first version was developed by Julia Nguyen and afterwards has been maintained and updated by me.

Successfully raised over $15k on Indiegogo to expand We Read Too to Android and invest in an app redesign.

Launched the first iOS version of We Read Too in the App Store. We Read Too is a mobile directory of children's and young adult books written by authors of color.

I wrote an article on the path to management for Increment, a print and digital magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale.

Received the Making A Difference Girl Award at the Black Girls Rock! Award show hosted on BET. The award was presented to us by First Lady Michelle Obama.

I co-wrote an article on Slack's Engineering blog about how ways we make the Slack iOS app accessible.

I hosted the first Mobile Meetup at Slack's headquarters in San Francisco.

Started an internship at Apple in the Frameworks department on the MacOS Accessibility team. During the summer I worked on making Xcode more accessible for VoiceOver users.

Started a software engineering internship at Intuit where I was on the Mint mobile team. I worked on the Mint iOS app and implemented local notifications for the weekly financial summary feature.

Finished my undergraduate career at Dartmouth College and earned my Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science.

Published my first TechCrunch article urging investors to fund more underrepresented founders. I wrote several TechCrunch articles during my year as a permalancer.

I was honored as one of Glamour Magazine's College Women of the Year.