Girlstart @ Discovery Green Spring Break 2022

Agent Sheets

Jennifer Hakala is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at Bloomfire in Austin, Texas, and she has over four years of software engineering experience. Hakala specializes in front-end technologies, specifically React, and is also skilled in JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Redux. Hakala studied communication at the University of Texas and briefly worked in design before …

Penny Battery

Priya Ramachandran heads R&D Global Operations at NI. She is responsible for the operational efficiency and effectiveness of NI’s R&D organization, and she supports and enables engineering teams to deliver innovative products. Her division manages financial, talent development, employee engagement, and strategic planning operations. Priya is passionate about building high-performance teams that develop and deliver …

Binary Bracelets

Joy Chik is a software design engineer who currently works as a corporate vice president for Microsoft. Chik graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998 and first joined the Microsoft team as an intern. She rose through the ranks of software design to become a developmental lead in …