Marlene Mhangami - Zimbabwean Software Engineer
Channel: Story Untold ZW🇿🇼
Date: 08/12/2022

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In episode 27 we sat with Marlene Mhangami - a software engineer currently occupying a Developer Advocate role at Voltron Data. She has also worked at Nvidia and was the first African to occupy a seat on the Python Software Foundation board in 2017.

Marlene was also chair of the first ever pan-African PyCon (Python Conference). She co-founded ZimboPy, a non-profit that empowers young women in Zimbabwe to pursue careers in technology.

In the episode Marlene shared how she transitioned from molecular biology to software engineering, what her current work role looks like, her experience starting a foundation that teaches girls to code and more...

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Intro 0:00
Developer Advocacy - current role 0:38
Transitioning from molecular biology to software engineering 2:03
The massive opportunity of tech 6:27
Remote work experiences 8:46
Barriers to solving problems in Zimbabwe 12:56
The problem being addressed by ZimboPy 16:40
Becoming the first African on the Python Software Board 21:33
Where Zimbabwe needs to catch up 26:10
The Python Software Foundation's mandate 31:13
Joining the Association for Computing Machinery Board 32:33

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