From Roasting Coffee to Backend Development - Jessica Greene

We talked about: 

• Jessica’s background
• Giving a talk at a tech conference about coffee
• Jessica’s transition into tech (How to get started)
• Going from learning to actually making money
• Landing your first job in tech
• Does your age matter when you’re trying to get a job?
• Challenges that Jessica faced in the beginning of her career
• Jessica’s role at PyLadies
• Fighting the Imposter Syndrome
• Generational differences in digital literacy and how to improve it
• Events organized by PyLadies
• Jessica’s beginnings at PyLadies (organizing events)
• Jessica’s experience with public speaking
• The impact of public speaking on your career
• Tips for public speaking
• Jessica’s work at Ecosia
• Discrimination in the tech industry (and in general)
• Finding Jessica online

Links:

• Ecosia's website: https://www.ecosia.org/
• Ecosia's blog: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/
• PyLadies Berlin: https://berlin.pyladies.com/
• PyLadies' Meetup: https://meetup.com/PyLadies-Berlin
• Code Academy: https://www.codecademy.com/
• Freecodecamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/
• Coursera Machine Learning: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
• ML Bookcamp code: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp
• Google Summer code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
• Outreachy website: https://www.outreachy.org/
• Alumni Interview: https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2020-03-17-alumni-interview-jessica
• Python pizza: https://python.pizza/
• Pycon: https://pycon.it/en
• Pycon 2022: https://2022.pycon.de/

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