Angelica Inguanzo
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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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Advice for getting started
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.
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Computer Science
University of California-Berkeley
Bachelor's Degree
Film/Cinema/Media Studies
University of California-Berkeley
Life & Career Milestones
I've taken a lot of twists and turns
1.
Born and raised in the Silicon Valley in San Jose, CA.
2.
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.
3.
In high school, she developed passions for both math and film production, taking several advanced placement classes and learning how to edit film.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
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.
8.
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.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Peers:
You shouldn't do a double major. It takes too much time and isn't worth the effort.
How I responded:
I heard this from a lot of different people, but I also heard positive things about double majoring too. Eventually, I realized that I wouldn't be happy or satisfied choosing one major. I dedicated myself to figuring out ways to combine my interests instead of choosing between them.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
My race and gender were occasionally a hurdle for me in school while learning computer science. At the time, I had no idea that tech was a male-dominated field. There just weren't very many female Latinas like me in the program.
I was the first in my family to go to college, which was challenging in some ways and liberating in others because I didn't have anyones expectations influencing me.
Since I started late in learning computer science, it was really hard for me in school. I developed imposter syndrome and constantly felt like I didn't belong.
I was raised in San Jose, CA, less than a few miles away from some of the biggest tech companies in the world, but I didn't know that because I didn't grow up with access to it.