
Extend Women in Tech Podcast
By Extend Women in Tech Podcast by Jonah Andersson and Tsedey Terefe

Extend Women in Tech PodcastNov 07, 2023

Extend Women in Tech Podcast - Interview with Audrey Willis, Co-Founder and Code School Director of CodeCrew
Welcome to another exciting episode of the Extend Women in Tech Podcast! In this episode, we are thrilled to bring you an inspiring and empowering story that celebrates the incredible achievements of women in the world of technology. Join us as we sit down with a true inspiration in the tech industry, Audrey, the co-founder and Code School Director of CodeCrew. She is also a Obama USA Leader, Technology Workforce Builder, LITE Memphis and STEM Influencer. Audrey's journey is a testament to the power of determination, passion, and the ability to break barriers by teaching programming and building a code school. Audrey, a visionary leader and tech enthusiast, has dedicated her career to bridging the gender gap in technology. She was vital in establishing CodeCrew, a remarkable initiative that transformed lives and fostered diversity in the tech community. In this episode, Audrey will take us on an incredible journey, sharing her personal experiences, challenges, and the driving force behind her commitment to empowering women in tech. Discover how Audrey's innovative approach and dedication have made CodeCrew a beacon of hope for aspiring female technologists. Learn how she has inspired and led countless others to pursue their dreams in coding and build a code school from such passion. Listen to the remarkable story of Audrey, who has not only paved her path as software engineer but has also illuminated the way for countless others. Her journey and this conversation will inspire you to welcome your passion for learning, overcome challenges, and make a lasting impact in the world of technology. Please take advantage of this exceptional episode of the Extend Women in Tech Podcast as we delve into Audrey's inspiring journey and discover the transformative power of CodeCrew. Be prepared to be motivated, encouraged, and empowered to follow your path in the tech world. Join us and let Audrey's story be the spark that ignites your tech journey! Stay tuned for this incredible episode, available now! Follow Audrey Willis and CodeCrew - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreypwillis - CodeCrew School: https://www.code-crew.org Follow Podcast Hosts Jonah & Tsedey: - Jonah Andersson - Tsedey Terefe Follow Extend Women in Tech Podcast: - Anchor: https://anchor.fm/extendwomenintechpodcast - Twitter: https://twitter.com/extendwomentech - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/extendwomenintechpodcast/ - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3bXdNjZYomEg2FEwUkEFXB - Call for Speakers: https://sessionize.com/extend-women-in-tech-podcast

Extend Women in Tech Podcast- Interview with Jonah Andersson, Author of Learning Microsoft Azure (O'Reilly) Book
Join us for an insightful, interesting, inspiring and exciting conversation with Jonah Andersson, who is a Developer and Cloud & DevOps Engineer Lead. She works as a Senior Azure Consultant at Solidify and just started her own Azure training company Jonah Andersson Tech.
Jonah Andersson is also known as an International Public Speaker, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Azure, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Developer of the Year Finalist for Nordic Women in Tech Awards 2023.
In this episode, we will learn more about Jonah Andersson, not as a co-host of this podcast, but as someone who inspires many developers with what she does for the tech developers community, specially women in tech.
This episode focuses on the Jonah's journey in her first book technical book project and her journey of writing her first book "Learning Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing and Development Fundamentals" at O'Reilly Media. It is a book for IT Professionals, IT Organizations, and Developers who wants to get started with the cloud computing and developing solutions with Microsoft Azure as a cloud computing platform.
Listen to this episode and be inspired by Jonah Andersson!
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Extend Women in Tech Podcast - Interview with Emilie Lundblad about GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Open AI and AI for Coding
Join us for an insightful, interesting, and exciting conversation with the Emilie Lundblad, based in Denmark, who works as the Managing Director at Amesto Nextbridge in Copenhagen.
She is a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, she has been nominated in 2023 for Hyperights Nordic top 100 for Data & AI, Director of Data and AI, and National Board Member of Pioneer Centre of AI.
Emilie holds a minor in Machine learning & AI with MIT, in addition, she is finishing up her executive master in IT management at ITU in Copenhagen, she holds a candidate in quantitative finance & econometrics, and 15+ certifications in data science, AI, ML, data engineering & BI. She has previously done research projects with MIT & DTU on ML for dynamic pricing, as well as Data & AI for sustainability.
In her career Emilie has been both head of BI, Data & AI Manager, speaker on Data & AI at Danish IT, as well as Microsoft, nominated for Berlingske’s talent 100 & Nordic women in Tech’s Diversity leader of the year.
In this episode, we had a great and interesting discussion about a lot of things about the following topics and more.
- Emelie's Tech Story and how did she got started working into IT
- AI technologies like Codex, GitHub Co-pilot, Chat GPT for development and coding
- Using natural language and other great AI tools to write to help write code
- How to properly give good instructions to AI tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Co-pilot for its learning and for assistance
- Discussion on how developers find the balance of coding with with AI-powered developer tools like GitHub Copilot
- Azure Open AI, Open AI Codex, AI & ML
- Security considerations and Responsible AI when using AI-powered tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, etc.
- Biases in AI and how to we can help improve it
- Daily Routine to keep balance at work
- Deep work and switching focus between work tasks
Listen to the rest of the podcast episode and be inspired by the great and interesting topics we discussed!
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Extend Women in Tech Podcast - Interview with Steffi Anniefred Sylvester, Workday Solutions Manager at Cambio Group

Extend Women in Tech Podcast - Interview with Audrey Mengue, Software Engineer, Speaker and Community Leader
Join us for an insightful and inspirational tech conversation with Audrey Mengue, a Software Engineer, Speaker, and Community Leader based in Gabon.
In this episode, we learned and were inspired to hear about Audrey's journey to working in the tech industry and how she got interested in working as a web developer. Learn about her inspiring story, career, and advice as a developer working with web application development technologies like React for the Frontend.
Find out how Audrey learns Azure through micro-learning and how much she values the communities. We also discussed the current situation of technology exposure, women in tech, and tech communities in Africa.
Finally, we shared insights about building a community regardless of where you are and choosing the job you love.
The advantages of using open-source technologies.
Listen to the rest of the episode to get inspired!
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Extend Women in Tech Podcast: Interview with Marija Genčić, Senior Software Engineer at H & M Group
Join us for an insightful conversation with Marija Genčić, based in Stockholm, Sweden, who is now a Senior Software Engineer at H & M Group. She has worked in different organizations as a software engineer and earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer science from the University of Belgrade.
In this episode, we learned and were inspired to hear about Marija's tech story and how she started her journey to tech. Learn her inspiring story about her hobby of playing video games to become a software engineer today. She works with Machine Learning, developing Python, automation, and multi-cloud projects at her workplace.
We talked about the automation of workflows on her project and micro-services, serverless, and other modern technologies used to create workflows with event-driven architecture.
Marija also shared her advice to junior software engineers who are still starting their careers in tech.
Listen to the rest of the podcast episode and be inspired by the great and awesome topics we discussed growing, learning, finding the best job for you, and so much more!
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Extend Women In Tech Podcast: Interview with Kristina Devochko, Microsoft MVP and Software Architect at Admincontrol
Join us for an insightful conversation with Kristina Devochko, an expert in software architecture with a passion for cloud technologies, cybersecurity, and DevOps. As a Microsoft MVP for Azure and a Software Architect at Admincontrol. Kris shares her experiences and insights on developing with cloud-native technologies, Microsoft Azure, and AKS (Azure Kubernetes) development in her tech journey.
We also discuss Kris's involvement in various tech communities as a public speaker, board member of NNUG Olso, Moderator at StreamingClouds, Co-Organizer of Cloud Native and Kubernetes Oslo and DevReal. Jonah and Kris, as speakers and Azure MVPs also reflect on their experiences speaking at the Swetugg Stockholm Conference 2023.
Kris shares her story of overcoming challenges and her drive to share her knowledge to help others succeed in tech.
We delve into the importance of community engagement and mentoring, including Kris' involvement with StreamingClouds and other initiatives.
We also explore what Kris believes can be done to make the tech industry a more inclusive workplace for everyone.
Find out what are her advise developers who are still beginning their tech journey.
Tune in to gain insights and inspiration from Kristina's fascinating journey in tech.
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Extend Women In Tech Podcast: Interview with Marilag Svennevig and Michelle Anne Tabirao - Filipinas in Tech and ULAP.org Founders

Extend Women In Tech Podcast - Interview with Nikos Delis, Senior Cloud Engineer at Helo
In this Extend Women in Tech Podcast episode #3, we interviewed Nikos Delis, our first male guest.
Nikos shared his career journey into tech and what he loves most about this field with a piece of advice to those looking to drive into tech.
Having some focus discussions on cloud development and architecture with Microsoft Azure, cloud engineering, community and programming languages. An interesting discussion at the end where we discussed on how we can inspire kids into tech with different programming tools.
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikos-delis-83435232/
- Blog: https://www.ndteknik.com/
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Jonah Andersson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonahandersson/
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Thank you for tuning in and listening to us!
Until next time :)
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Extend Women In Tech Podcast - Working as Developers: Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, DevOps and Cloud

Extend Women in Tech Podcast is back with a new host Jonah Andersson

Interview with Smriti Mishra, head of AI at Earthbanc
Smriti is on a mission to battle the climate crisis with Artificial Intelligence (AI). She has been using neural networks for research and applications in healthcare and mental health, in the industry, and as part of research at KTH. We spoke about her work and research, ethics in AI, and how her growth mindset and attitude helped her to develop meaningful connections.

Interview with Linda Almqvist, Tech Lead at Prototyp
Linda Almqvist shared with us her insights about pair programming, getting into new technologies, transforming a PoC to a scalable production product, Tailwind, and career switches.

Interview with Jonah Andersson, Fullstack Software Developer, Azure Hero, Public Tech Speaker
Jonah Andersson is giving talks about Azure, studying for Azure certification and enjoying working in the cloud. When she's not doing all of this, she mentors junior engineers and is working to make the tech industry more inclusive. Listen to our episode to hear her fascinating journey, that started in the Philippines and continues in Sweden.
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- Blog: https://jonahandersson.tech/
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Follow and Contact Jonah & Tsedey if you want to be our guest.
Jonah Andersson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonahandersson/
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Thank you for tuning in and listening to us! Until next time :)
Feedback: Please feel free to email us extendwomenintechpodcast@gmail.com

Interview with Varsha Singh, a iOS Developer at Apegroup
In this episode we will be discussing about Mobile App development technologies, about immigration and return after maternity leave.

Interview with Paula Dozsa, a lead developer and co-founder at imagiLabs
Paula started working with imagiLabs, who help kids to learn how to code from their mobile phone, from Hong Kong. In our first episode, she tells us what led her to moving to Stockholm, how she overcomes the challenges that are part of her work, and share with us precious tips from her career.
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