December Tech Talks

Join Women Who Code for a fun and casual night with great talks by the Boston community - growing yourself and your teammates and making puzzles with Unity Game Engine!

6:00 - 6:15 pm: Welcome
6:15 - 7:15 pm: Talks
7:15 - 7:30: Q/A

• TALKS *

** Strategies for growing your teammates while growing yourself **

> Amanda Muñoz

When we start our careers as developers in tech, we generally mark our success based on tangible outputs: how much code did we deliver? How many features did we build?

As we become more senior in our careers, whether we remain individual contributors or become
managers, our success is based less on our outputs as individuals, and more on our impact on the success of our teams. This can be a shock to new leaders, as our metric of success has changed, and this new metric is harder to measure.

During this session, we will discuss leadership strategies to grow your teammates and yourself. As a new engineering leader, whether you still mostly write code or are now a full time manager, you will leave this session with practical tactics to improve the health of your team, and new ways to measure and frame your own success.

** Making Magic Puzzles with the Unity Game Engine **

> Leah Tynan

Leah Tynan is an artist and software developer working with web technologies and the Unity game engine. She works at the Museum of Science, Boston with interdisciplinary teams to create screen-based and mixed digital/physical exhibit interactives, as well as independently on original, open-source works. In this talk, she will present her new work Magic Puzzles, a digital puzzle experience (made in Unity) that blends illustration, animation, music, and game design. Leah will discuss the project's art production, collaboration process, software architecture, and lessons learned.

Developing a Growth Mindset: How to Use Google to Launch Your Career in Tech

> Rizel Bobb-Semple

Rizel is a Software Engineer at a Boston tech startup with a nontraditional background. Starting a career in Software Development can be difficult, especially during a pandemic. The journey can feel intimidating and isolating. It can also be costly in both time, energy, and money. In this session, Rizel will discuss how to make those setbacks empower you to continue your career as a new developer. After this discussion, you will learn how to develop a growth mindset.

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