Empowering Girls & Women in the Tech Industry: An Interview with Amanda Cavallaro
In this edition of the column, we are going to talk about how Google Technologies can empower and bring more women in STEM careers. For this publication we have the special invite to Amanda Cavallaro, a Google Developer Expert in the Google Assistant category 🤖.
Who is Amanda Cavallaro?
Amanda is a software developer, passionate about Cloud technologies, Human-Computer Interactions and Conversational actions.
During the day she works as a software developer and when the sun goes down she wears the cape of Google Developer Expert for the Google Assistant.
She is a Women in Tech ambassador and a community lead at Developers Cloud Community in London.
You can speak with her in Portuguese, English, Italian and a little Japanese.
More info about her on her website.
How she started and keeps herself motivated to remain in a tech career
In English:
In Brazilian Portuguese:
She shares experience being a Google Developer Expert (GDE)
What she recommends girls to pursue or even consider being in tech:
Get into Women in Tech Communities, specially the ones showcases folks around the world that are driving diversity and inclusion through local events within the tech community. You can find role models who are real people in your regions!
Look for local communities (may they be online or in-person) to interact with other people who are learning and teaching, so you can have a supportive community to assist your learning.
She created a learning playground to facilitate the learning of girls’ learning HTML & CSS in a playful way during a previous International Women’s Day:
What steps should be taken to attract more girls & women into tech?Don’t be discouraged if you enter a room and you do not feel represented or included there. Your participation is crucial, you can share your perspective and even become a role model for allowing other folks to consider being there as well.
Final message to women, as we celebrating International Women’s Day 2020 👩💻👇
