How I went from a part-time bootcamp to a full-time coding job
Madelyn Tavarez is a self-taught engineer who is working on the Android app development team at Pinterest.
Madelyn sits down with the Ruben Harris, Artur and Timur Meyster from Breaking Into Startups Podcast to talk about her journey from growing up in Dominican Republic, living in Washington Heights with her mom and here trip to Turkey that sparked her interest to become a software engineer.
Madelyn shares how she was one of the first software engineering apprentices at Pinterest and eventually joined the Android app development team building products used by hundreds of millions of people.
She taught herself how to code by attending a part-time coding bootcamp while holding a full-time job as a bartender in New York City.
Madelyn is a Dominican Republic-native who grew up in Washington Heights where no one around her was working in tech.
Her senior year of college she went from being a bartender to an “eat, pray, love” moment which took her to Italy. Which eventually played a big role in Madelyn deciding to teach herself how to code.
Fast-forward to today, she works as an Android mobile engineer at Pinterest. She also continues to get actively involved in different community projects, including the TECHNOLOchicas among others.
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