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Amie Tornincasa Highlight
A lot of the things I consider ‘accomplishments’ aren’t my credentials or my degrees; they’re those little moments when I felt really insecure and I made it through.
About Amie
- Says that when she tells people she works in computer science, they assume she’s a coder working late at night and living off of Mountain Dew.
- On the contrary, she works in a very social role at Netflix, managing teams of coders and acting as a liaison between them and the business managers.
- When she first got out of college and was working as a coder, she felt like her bosses and her teams didn’t know where to put her.
- Because she’s a stubborn person, she refused to be classified as the “dumb girl,” and always worked hard to prove herself.
- Says that her stubbornness sometimes meant she’d spend three times longer on a project or studying for a test, but she was always willing to put in that extra time.
- Wishes that there were more women in her field so that she didn’t feel the need to prove herself every time she starts a new job or new project.
- Says she gets competitive about mental exercises; if she sees someone doing something she wants to be able to do, she makes herself learn how to do it.
- She’s passionate about tech because she believes its capabilities are growing exponentially right now—we’re living in a time where it can make big changes in people’s lives.
