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Angelica Inguanzo Highlight
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.
About Angelica
- 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.