TechOpps

01/25/2021

We are glad to play a part in DataCamp's mission of democratizing data science and bring data fluency to the masses. We are proud to see that DataCamp Donates have reached 10,000 people. As we celebrate this incredible milestone, we prepare to reach and impact even more people.

Here's to 25,000 subscriptions! 🎉

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Nonprofits, public schools, and social welfare organizations are now eligible to receive free hands-on data education through DataCamp Donates.

10/19/2020

We apologize for the inactivity, we have been preoccupied with academic and personal events. Rest assured that we will be back with more projects and events for the tech community!

09/11/2020

TechTalks Series: Entering and Sustaining Product Management

Ankita Mishra recently joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as a Product Manager II for their flagship server product. As a part of her Master's program, she interned with HPE in the summer of 2019. She wants to reach out to students and PM aspirants who want to transition to product management, as well as new PM's to share her journey and answer questions which she once had. She loves her job and is eager to learn from and encourage more people who want to be great Product Managers.

Catch Ankita on Saturday, September 12 at 5 PM EST on the App! https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-entering-and-sustaining-product-management-88472885271

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPlzQd5-QtfycY9lRGUuyQ

08/31/2020

TechTalks Series: Lessons Learned from Building the Fastest Growing Design Community as a Student

Grace Ling is the Founder & Design Lead of Design Buddies, the fastest growing design community and a UX Design Intern at Electronic Arts. She is also a Design Lead at Augment (a community of intern leaders) and Admin at intern.club (the largest intern community worldwide). She is also a Computer Science & Engineering student from California

Outside of design and community building, she has her own art business, and creates content for social media and her blog. She also enjoys drawing, running, and traveling. You can check out her work at: https://grace-ling.com/

Catch Grace on Monday, August 31 at 8 PM EST on the App!
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Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPlzQd5-QtfycY9lRGUuyQ

08/24/2020

TechTalks Series: How Young Leaders Around the World can Plug into our Revolutionary Community

Gary Sheng is a technologist and social entrepreneur based in NYC who is dedicating his life to building tools, guides, companies, and systems that help people 1) unplug from everything that is facilitating human downgrade, and 2) become agents of a better future. After leaving Google, he co-founded Civics Unplugged, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering leaders of Gen Z to build the future of American Democracy (and soon the free world).

Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garysheng/

Catch Gary on Tuesday, August 25 at 11:00 AM EST on the App!
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-how-amazing-young-leaders-around-the-world-can-plug-into-our-revolutionary-communi-81220388593

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
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08/24/2020

TechTalks Series: How to break into ML/AI domain when your primary job is not directly related to ML/AI

Ashwin D.V. is a Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer networking industry. Ashwin is skilled in ML/AI, networking technologies, Python, SQL, Splunk. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) focused in Electronics and Communications Engineering from PES University, Masters degree in Software Systems from BITS Pilani and currently pursuing PG diploma in ML/AI from IIIT-B.

Catch Ashwin on Tuesday, August 25 at 5:30 AM EST on the App!
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-how-to-break-into-ml-…

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
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08/23/2020

TechTalks Series: Taking Up Space: Create Your Own Path To Leadership in Tech

Jennifer Ponder is a Sr. Front End Architect/ Sr. Leadership Fellow at Women Who Code. She is a Software Developer who specializes in React and React 360 virtual reality development. Jennifer has over 6 years in technology between technical product research and software development, and technology coaching. Her journey into tech started with a role in the healthcare technology sector as a Software Product Research Analyst. Likewise, during her time as an Associate Program Director for an online radio network she started her journey with learning to code which led her to complete the Georgia Institute of Technology Full Stack Software Development certification program in 2018.

Catch Jennifer on Monday, August 24 at 6:30 PM EST on the App!
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-taking-up-space-create-your-own-path-to-leadership-in-tech-79732743194

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech.opps/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechOppsOrg
Fiesta: https://fiesta.app/u/techopps

08/15/2020

TechTalks Series: Importance of Leadership - How to Become One

At her university, Snigdha Gupta built a 290+ member strong community from scratch that mutually helps and supports each other. She believes in sharing knowledge, resources, and experiences to help others, and she strongly thinks that we grow as a society only when we contribute back to the community. Snigdha also has 3+ years of industry experience as a Software Developer which became a leverage to support women engineers and to try to help them in any way possible. She is also a reviewer for Software Engineering Track Committee for GHC 2020 and currently a Summer Intern at Esri Inc.

Catch Snigdha on Saturday, August 15 at 4:00 PM EST on the
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-importance-of-leadership-how-to-become-one-15553354233

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech.opps/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechOppsOrg
Fiesta: https://fiesta.app/u/techopps

08/15/2020

TechTalks Series: How I Got an Internship at FAANG

Sandhya Subramani is currently studying MS in Business Analytics at the University of Texas - Dallas, specializing in the Data Science and Marketing Analytics tracks. She previously worked for three years as an AI Engineer at Fidelity Investments, focusing on Applied AI Research. Sandhya helped build Machine Learning based personalized recommendation engines, intelligent automation tools, and analytics capabilities for the organization to solve complex global business problems.

Catch Sandhya on Saturday, August 15 at 5:00 PM EST on the App!
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-how-i-got-an-internship-at-amazon-73656306600

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techopps2020/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech.opps/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechOppsOrg
Fiesta: https://fiesta.app/u/techopps

08/14/2020

TechTalks Series: From the Wealth of Nations to Cracking the Coding Interview

Shriya Bansal is a rising third year at the University of Chicago studying Computer Science and Statistics. She is currently an Explore intern at Microsoft where she does both software engineering and produce management. She has experience in Human-Computer Interaction research using Natural Language Processing and topic modelling to analyze large data sets. Last summer, she was a teaching assistant with Girls Who Code, and she continues to share her love for tech education with middle school girls through compileHer.z

Catch Shriya on Saturday, August 15 at 10:00 AM EST on the App!
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-from-the-wealth-of-nations-to-cracking-the-coding-interview-86611646886

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechOppsOrg
Fiesta: https://fiesta.app/u/techopps

08/12/2020

TechTalks Series: Becoming a Data Scientist in Tech

Sreeta Gorripaty is a Sr. Data Scientist at Uber. She focuses on using Machine Learning and optimization techniques to develop algorithms for transportation applications in the areas of Driver Engagement and Loyalty, travel time prediction, pool matching, dynamic pricing algorithms. Prior to Uber, Sreeta pursued her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, her M.S. in Transportation Engineering in UC Berkeley, and B.S. in Civil Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

At Berkeley, Sreeta was working on developing decision-support algorithms, used data mining techniques to improve the airport planning process, and behavior modeling to quantify lifestyle changes and impact on transportation choices. She has also worked with Apple Maps to develop an evaluation framework to improve their routing algorithms using user data. Sreeta’s accolades include the WTS Beverley Swaim Staley Leadership Legacy Award and ACRP Graduate Research Award.

Catch Sreeta on Wednesday, August 12 at 11:30 AM EST on the App!
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-becoming-a-data-scientist-in-tech-84518213321

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techopps/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techopps2020/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech.opps/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechOppsOrg
Fiesta: https://fiesta.app/u/techopps

08/06/2020

TechTalks Series: Landing Internships in High School

Andrea Ha is an incoming freshman at the University of Washington and is currently working as a summer intern at a start-up company, Mount Locks.

Catch Andrea on Thursday, August 6 at 3:00 PM EST on the App!
https://fiesta.app/e/techtalks-series-landing-interships-in-high-schools-93918832033

Missed an episode of the TechTalks Series? Check out our YouTube Channel to watch past recordings of TechTalks!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPlzQd5-QtfycY9lRGUuyQ

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techopps/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techopps2020/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech.opps/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechOppsOrg
Fiesta: https://fiesta.app/u/techopps