281 – 💻 Empowering Women in Tech with Arit Amana

What this episode covers

In this episode, we get to speak with Arit Amana: Software Engineer, Founder, Writer, Mentor, and Conference Speaker. We discuss Arit’s day-to-day as a Software Engineer and her career journey. We also dive into Arit’s organization OurTimeForTech.org, a nonprofit online program that empowers early-career & career-changing Women in Tech! ✨ Episode Sponsor * Auth0: https://auth0.com* Auth0 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/auth0* Auth0 on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/auth0* Auth0 Avocado Labs online meetup events: https://avocadolabs.dev/ 🔗 Episode Links * Twitter: https://twitter.com/AritAmana* Website: https://arit.dev/* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritamana/* Founder: https://ourtimefortech.org/* Github: https://github.com/msarit* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AritDeveloper* CodeNewbie Podcast – What it’s like to break into tech as a mother Arit Amana: https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/what-it-s-like-to-break-into-tech-as-a-mother* Virtual Career Talk with Arit Amana: https://youtu.be/c-njpDjJOy0* Firehose Project: http://thefirehoseproject.com/* Forem: https://www.forem.com/* Host: Frederick Weiss: https://twitter.com/frederickweiss* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/i74Swu8Us-A 📜 Transcript: Frederick Weiss: [00:00:00] I am Frederick Philip von Weiss. Thank you for consuming the Thunder Nerds, a conversation with the people behind the technology that love what they do, and do tech good. Let’s go ahead and get to our guests. We have a super special guest today. I’m really excited to have her. We have  Software Engineer, founder, writer, mentor, conference speaker, Arit Amana. [00:01:14] Welcome to the show. [00:01:16] Arit Amana: [00:01:16] Thank you so much. Frederick. That was great. You, I think you’ve covered it all. Thank you for having me. [00:01:23] Frederick Weiss: [00:01:23] I try it’s a lot right at the beginning, but anyway, thank you so much for spending a Saturday with us. I know Saturday morning is not the easiest thing to negotiate with a family and everything going on. [00:01:36] Everybody’s yeah, it’s Saturday. And then Oh wait, I gotta do this thing. So thank you so much.