Jennifer Creighton - English Grad Turned Software Architect, Speaker #47
Biography
Jenn Creighton is a frontend software architect and conference speaker. She lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online @gurlcode.
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Episode Summary
“Doing a major in English is very technically heavy, and so I think a lot of that transfers into engineering. You pay attention to composition a lot. You are working in specific languages, and so you’re getting used to what they look like, how they’re composed and what are the best practices with them.”
—Jennifer Creighton
In this episode we’ll cover:
- Why Jenn chose not to get a formal degree in software engineering
- How is it that so many English majors become front end engineers?
- The differences between a junior engineer, senior engineer, and a software architect?
Key Milestones
Selected Links from the episode:
https://www.writespeakcode.com/ - Conference that promotes the visibility and leadership of technologists with marginalized genders
