November 4, 2013

21 Rising Technical Superstars: Meet The Diverse Engineers Who Just May Become The Next Fortune 500 CTO!

Of the Fortune 500 companies, only two have a recognizable female CTO. Fear not – here are 21 women engineers to watch. Talented engineering managers and […]
November 1, 2013

Meet Startup Co-Founder And CTO Maia Bittner of RocksBox!

Maia Bittner is the co-founder and CTO of RocksBox, where she is single-handedly running the entire tech stack. Maia has two to seven years of experience […]
October 25, 2013

Women In Engineering Teams: Where Are The Numbers?

By Tracy Chou (Engineer, Pinterest & Mentor, Hackbright Academy) The first Grace Hopper conference was held in 1994, bringing together 500 technical women. The second was […]
October 23, 2013

12 Diverse CTOs You Should Know – and Follow on Twitter!

These female chief technology officers (CTOs) are leaders of startups and technology companies. Women who can code AND lead are role models who inspire and motivate […]
October 23, 2013

Heroku Engineers Host Hackbright Academy Fall 2013 Field Trip and Workshop

Thanks to the engineers at Heroku for giving us a tour of their new office in San Francisco’s SOMA district today. We enjoyed a walking tour […]
October 21, 2013

Picking Projects (Hackbright Academy – Week 4)

I’ve been “dressing up” during the week (um, wearing collared shirts and sometimes cardigans), so on the weekends, I like to wrap myself in the ridiculous […]
October 17, 2013

(Video) Hackbright Alum & Eventbrite Software Engineer Nicole Zuckerman Talks About Her Final Project, Hackbright – And Life After The 10-Week Engineering Program

Nicole Zuckerman (Eventbrite engineer) Eventbrite software engineer Nicole Zuckerman went from college textbook publishing to software development. In this talk, she shares her experience at Hackbright Academy […]
October 16, 2013

Hackbright Engineering Fellows Enjoy Lunch With Twilio Engineers And Embark On TwilioQuest!

An epic adventure to solve programming challenges, earn loot and bring glory to the guild. At a “lunch & learn” field trip to Twilio’s office in […]
October 15, 2013

10 Girl Geeks Who Rule – Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day

For the annual celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and math – “Ada Lovelace Day” – we celebrate the women engineers who have climbed the […]
October 14, 2013

Leaprobo Project – AKA Gizgig Goes For A Walk – From Silicon Chef: Hardware Hackathon For Women

80% of the 150 attendees at Silicon Chef 2013 were WOMEN – and for many of the attendees, it was their first time coding, hardware hacking, […]
October 9, 2013

Switching Careers – A Pragmatic Guide (Or “How I Left A Four-Year Career In Finance And Became A Software Engineer In Five Months”)

Gulnara currently works at Jibe as a software engineer. She attended Hackbright Academy in the spring of 2013. Prior to Hackbright, she spent four years working […]
October 4, 2013

How To Send An SMS Text Message In Python – By Pushing A Button On Your Arduino!

Welcome to the Arduino tutorial I wish existed when I started hardware hacking. Arduinos are awesome! But an Arduino doesn’t in and of itself do anything. […]
September 30, 2013

Learning to Code: Meeting, if Not Exceeding, Expectations

Rosette currently works at Bills.com as a Software Engineer. Prior to that, she was an Engineering Fellow at Hackbright Academy and prior to that she took […]
September 25, 2013

Hackbright Tech Talk #1: Facebook software engineer Zainab Ghadiyali on the Facebook Platform API

The Graph API follows a simple HTTP request based model. A user performs an action which are you can post by HTTP request to Facebook. Facebook […]
September 19, 2013

Couchsurfing Senior iOS Developer Gemma Barlow

Gemma is a senior iOS developer at Couchsurfing and a mentor at Hackbright Academy. Previously, she worked as iOS developer at Intunity and Lonely Planet. She […]
September 17, 2013

Impostor Syndrome and Saying Yes

I was dealing with a good case of impostor syndrome, the mindset where you feel like an impostor or fraud because you think your accomplishments aren’t […]