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I'm from San Jose. I didn't even know that San Jose was the Silicon Valley or what that meant until college. And I really lived within 15 miles of some of this stuff. I had no clue what was going on. I went to college intended film major and then I took CS randomly because a friend was like, have you heard about this class since you like film? The professor also teaches an animation class, maybe you should do it. We started doing these little graphic projects, and I was really interested in them. And then I was like wow, there's so much I can do with this, and there's so many intersections between film and the film world and technology. I knew I wanted to work in a space that kind of intertwined both of those spaces, and then two years after graduation, here at YouTube doing engineering. I build the YouTube app for emerging markets which is YouTube Go. We're building for spaces where data is both slow and expensive. And so this is essentially to give access to YouTube and everything that it provides to these different communities. So just try things that, even if they spark a tiny bit of interest, I think it's worth trying. 

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.

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.

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.

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You shouldn't do a double major. It takes too much time and isn't worth the effort.

Angelica Inguanzo

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