Angelica Inguanzo
Frontend Engineer
YouTube
San Bruno, CA USA
“Coding isn’t a skill where you don’t break things if [they’re] not broken. You have to break everything in order to figure out how it works. That’s the only way you learn.”
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By Roadtrip NationAngelica Inguanzo
Milestones
My road in life has taken me all over.
Born and raised in the Silicon Valley in San Jose, CA.
Growing up, even though she lived in one of the biggest tech capitals in the world, she didn’t have access to a lot of technology at home or in school.
In high school, she developed passions for both math and film production, taking several advanced placement classes and learning how to edit film.
Attended the University of California, Berkeley—she explored a lot of different majors before landing on a dual degree in film studies and computer science.
During her freshman year, she interned for one of her professors, taking photos and editing video for a nonprofit she ran, and later edited a movie for the Hispanic College Fund.
With these experiences on her resume, she got the opportunity to do two non-technical internships at Google in Enterprise Strategies and Product Quality Operations.
After graduating from college, she was hired on full time by Google and was able to start utilizing her technical background as a Quality Analyst and Developer.
She is now a Frontend Engineer working on the YouTube Go for Android app, exploring intersections between film and technology, while pursuing her interests in graphics and visual effects.
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Education
High School
Career
Frontend Engineer
I develop the YouTube Go app for Emerging Markets using the Android platform.
Career Roadmap
My work combines:
My work combines:
Technology
Numbers
Learning / Being Challenged
Day to Day
My day starts by logging in to everything! Review peer code, review bugs / feature requests, build them, write tests, test features on several devices / networks (this is specific to working on Emerging Markets), attend a few meetings to talk about what I built or what needs to be built, repeat.
Advice for Getting Started
Here's the first step for college students
Give it a shot, even if you haven't tried anything computer science related its worth learning about if you have any bit of curiosity about it.
Recommended Education
My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:
Hurdles
The Noise I Shed
From Peers:
"You shouldn't do a double major. It takes too much time and isn't worth the effort."
Challenges I Overcame
Gender & Racial Discrimination
First-Generation College Student
Imposter Syndrome
Interviewed By
Small Town Tech
Tech opportunities in surprising places
