Laura I. Gómez
Founder
Atipica
Palo Alto, CA USA
“Stay true and loyal to your potential—not anyone else’s but your own.”
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By Roadtrip NationLaura I. Gómez
Milestones
My road in life took a while to figure out.
Her family immigrated to America when she was eight years old and settled in the Silicon Valley area.
She was an undocumented resident until she was 17, when she got her work permit; shortly afterwards, she got an internship with Hewlett Packard.
No one at her internship looked like her, and she hated it; it made her want to stray away from tech.
However, her mother—who’d come to the U.S. to make a better life for her children—saw that tech would be an incredible opportunity and pushed her daughter to continue.
Determined not to let the industry make her into a victim, she decided she’d work in tech, “whether the industry embraced her or not.”
Believes she made the right choice going forward with tech; now, years later, diversity is dominating the conversation in the industry.
Since then, she’s worked at huge companies like Twitter and YouTube, helping them translate and localize their applications for a global audience.
Her latest endeavor, Atipica, helps tech companies find and hire diverse candidates; says she’d rather fail trying to solve the problem of diversity in tech than to never tackle it.
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Education
High School
Career
Founder
I lead companies that work toward providing meaningful diversity and inclusion solutions for tech companies.
Career Roadmap
My work combines:
My work combines:
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Accomplishing Goals
Day to Day
I lead data-driven initiatives that allow top level leaders to understand the business benefits of machine learning in recruiting and diversity. I spend a lot of my time seeking to understand the pipeline and the recruiting funnel for tech businesses and how we can create technology to bridge the gaps. Because I am an entrepreneur, I tend to spend a lot of time talking to investors and finding new ways to get funding for my projects.
Advice for Getting Started
Here's the first step for high school students
People can get into tech with all types of degrees and experience! Learn the basics by taking a computer science class or related subject.
Hurdles
The Noise I Shed
From Myself:
"I don't want to be the victim of immigration services because I'm undocumented."
Challenges I Overcame
First-Generation Immigrant
Gender and Racial Discrimination
Interviewed By
Code Trip
Increasing representation in the world of coding
