#ApplaudHer 2017

This is a collection of all of the #ApplaudHer’s that were collected and published in the CODE Review over the course of 2017. Here you will find tales of women who found new jobs, earned promotions, started businesses, and were asked to participate in prestigious industry events. We hope you enjoy and take inspiration from these stories.

Eunice Obugye has been leading the JAVA Programming Workshops for WWCode Accra.

WWCode Kuala Lumpur Director JecelynYeen has been promoted to Google Developer Expert.

WWCode DC Ruby on Rails lead Zuri Hunter was featured on Code With Veniin an article about her hackathon experiences.

Sílvia Mur, who has helped launch WWCode Barcelona, has joined Barcelona-based startup Typeform as a Senior front-end dev.

WWCode SV member April Wensel, Founder of Compassionate Coding, traveled to Stockholm to speak at the TechDays Sweden conference.

Ida Heathcote-Fumador has assisted WWCode Accra with the creation of flyers and scouting venues for event locations.

WWCode Hong Kong member Joyz Ng became the first woman in Hong Kong to participate in the Software Testing World Cup (Asia division).

WWCode LA member Emily Lam spoke at the first annual Alexa Conference at Vanderbilt University.

Riana Shah of WWCode SV was promoted to Senior Associate, Business Analyst at the Advisory Board Company.

Chandreyi Saha of WWCode London launched an edtech chapter for Skyline.

Billimarie Lubiano Robinson of WWCode Philadelphia is now the co-founder and Director of Legal Tech & Design at CLASP (Community Legal & Advocacy Services Project).

Patience Teiko-Tetteh has been helping to source locally made T-shirts and plan events for WWCode Accra.

WWCode ATL Network Director Erica Stanley Erica Stanley accepted a job as an engineering manager with SalesLoft.

Elise Schultz of WWCode Huntsville is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of WxIntegrations, a weather analytics, women owned start-up.
WWCode Delhi Director Jigyasa Grover has been nominated as a finalist for the Red Hat Women in Open Source Academic Awards. Vote here!

WWCode SF Director Georgia Andrews joined women-founded RideAlong as Director of Engineering.

Holly Peck, Reetu Mutti, Zoe Alexandre, and Elgin-Skye McLaren launched the WWCode Vancouver Network.

Judith Agbotse of WWCode Accra worked with sponsors to secure venues and helped with the implementation of several Network events.

Chloe Acheampong led a Python Labs Session for WWCode Accra which was the back drop of a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Live Session Event.

WWCode UK Expansion Director Sheree Atcheson spoke at the World Economic Forum about the Knowledge Economy and Cities as Hubs of Innovation.

Luisa Morales of WWCode NYC was interviewed on Learn To Code With Me.

Nadia Bajwa of WWCode Chicago was featured in an article by Cosmopolitan entitled “What No One Tells You About Working in Tech as a Woman”

Grisel Ancona of WWCode Merida launched her first project as a project manager.

An article written by Mavi Jimenez of WWCode Barcelona inspired one of Spain’s largest mobile apps (Wallapop) to offer 200,000 euros in scholarships for women.

Sarah Masud of WWCode Bangalore gave a talk on open source licenses at FOSSMEET 2017 at NIT Calicut.

WWCode Accra Director Afia Owusu-Forfie has secured venues, run workshops, and raised 11 leaders in support of the first Women Who Codenetwork in Sub-Saharan Africa.

WWCode London Director Gen Ashley was invited to be on two panels and to give the closing keynote at Accenture’s Girls in Stem 2017 event.

Kerry Dougherty of WWCode NYC accepted her first full-time developer position as a Software Engineer at Credibility Capital.

WWCode NYC Member Jenise Araujo started her first engineering job as an Associate Software Engineer with Priceline.com

WWCode London Lead Claire Tran won the annual award at the Gumtree UK’s yearly summit for the category “Extra Mile” for creating a great work environment.

Jessica Bell of WWCode DC launched her new podcast about the lives, passions and narratives of technical workers in the DC Metro Area.

Anthonia Carter of WWCode Birmingham was awarded a Fulbright grant to pursue a Masters degree in Multidisciplinary Innovation.

Elizabeth Heinlein of WWCode Portland has recently joined New Relic as a Software Engineer.

WWCode Belfast Lead Heather Campbell recently organised a Machine Learning event for National Coding Week.

Suzie Squier of WWCode DC has been hired as Executive Director of the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC) — houses the Retail ISAC.

WWCode Vancouver director Holly Peck started an internship at Kindred.ai as an Experimental Scientist.

WWCode Portland Community Lead Keeley Hammond published her first npm module for geojson.

Allie Brandenburger of WWCode DC is co-founder of TheBridge — a network of political & tech professionals working to connect the Bay Area and DC.

WWCode Delhi Director Abi Aryan was invited to speak at E-Summit 2017.
Irene Zhao of WWCode ATL accepted an offer from Insiten as Software Engineer.

Morgan Senkal of WWCode Portland has been promoted to Software Architect at Metal Toad.

WWCode Chicago lead Prajakta Pardeshi accepted a machine learning internship at Siemens Chicago.

Bharati Sethiya of WWCode Toronto hosted the “Introduction to Android App Development” workshop for the Network.

Dr. África Periáñez of WWCode Tokyo was a keynote speaker at the Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit in Shanghai.

Cath Jones of WWCode Sydney founded Elixir Girls, which fosters diversity in tech by facilitating workshops to help women further their understanding of Elixir and Phoenix.

WWCode Recife Director Andreza Leite, presented a paper, for a Latin America conference on Women in Computing (Córdoba-Argentina).

WWCode Chicago director Saumya Pandey was promoted within 13 months at Infor.

Mavi Jimenez of WWCode Barcelona started a new job as a senior developer for HolaLuz, a female founded startup.

Genny Centeno of WWCode Mérida participated as a mentor at Hackatour @ Yucatán 2017.

WWCode Accounting and Compliance Manager Brittani Smalls helped create an app to allow people with disabilities to use public transportation better.

WWCode LA member Ya-Mia Dawson started a Consulting firm (YQD Consulting) in Northridge, CA.

WWCode NYC member Meg Adams accepted the role of Engineering Manager for Glamour Magazine with the Condé Nast group.

Wai-Yin Kwan of WWCode Atlanta is leading a 5-part series to guide female coders to create a web app. CodingForProduct.com.

Asabea Asare-Mintah has been a phenomenal Evangelist for WWCodeAccra.

CEO & Founder of Incubsence and WWCode Delhi member Diksha Deo, incorporated her new venture based on IoT solutions and products.

WWCode DC member Mandy Moore was featured in an article in Glamour Magazine.

Helena Ford of WWCode Bristol and her company DashHound, has been selected to participate in Wales’ first National Tech Accelerator — Digital Dozen.

WWCode Belfast Network Director Claire Burn spoke at Europe’s leading Cyber security conference, OWASP’s AppSecEU.

Marie Filbey of WWCode ATL was hired by SOLTECH, Inc. as an Interface Engineer.

WWCode Tokyo member Kristen Huber accepted her first engineering job with Rakuten.

Originally published at www.womenwhocode.com.