Hour of Code

Sarika graduated in 2019 from UT Austin with a bachelor’s in Linguistics and a minor in Computer Science. Sarika knew she wanted to pursue linguistics, the study of human language and communication, when she took an introductory class offered at her high school. In college, she learned to combine her passion for studying language with her interest in using computer science to analyze data for a field called computational linguistics. While learning how to program and code was initially difficult, Sarika owes her success to incredible mentors—both professors and peers—who encouraged her not to quit. It was through this lesson in perseverance that Sarika became interested in other computer science work! Currently, Sarika works at Dell Technologies as a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Developer. RPA is a growing tech field that helps automate a variety of repetitive computer-related tasks. Sarika hopes to experience many different roles during her time at Dell, including data analytics work and eventually language data analysis, and in the future, she plans to pursue a graduate degree in computational linguistics. In her free time, Sarika loves woodworking and DIY projects, as well as gardening, writing, and practicing other languages!