#21 The Journey of Ata Mkrtchyan

In this episode Ata Mrktchyan, a "Universe Engineer" at LiveIntent, talks about her journey, sharing about her studies and her different jobs as QA Engineer and Software Engineer using different programming languages. She tells about how challenging herself and being curious helped her grow and chase her dreams, sharing valuable lessons and advice to everyone starting their journey. Listen to the full episode to learn more about her inspiring and exciting story!

00:00 - Introduction

03:27 - How She got interested into computers and programming

04:39 - Her Education path

05:06 - Her first job as a QA Engineer

07:08 - The challenges she had faced during her first professional experience

09:17 - How she applied to her dream company and got the job

11: 34 - How she progressed in her career and moved to Europe

13:10 - Working as a Full Stack Engineer

15:28 - Her positive mindset 

17:40 - The "Tech jobs" stereotypes 

22:40 - Her current role at LiveIntent

25:57 - About learning Scala

27:30 - Her first talk at a tech Conference

30:02 - Her next challenges

31:13 - Advice

33:06 - Special advice to women

 

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