Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Tracy Chou: Software Engineer at Pinterest


Tracy Chou has worked hard throughout her career focusing on her software engineering skills. Most of the work she has done is in the social networking industry.

·        2007 She was a Google Intern
·        2008 She was a Facebook Intern
·        2009 She received her bachelor’s degree at Stanford University
·        2010 She received her masters at Stanford University
·        2010-11 she was the Quora engineer
·        She is the Pinterest engineer since 2011

According to linked in she is currently working in San Francisco, California. She started working at Pinterest in 2011 she states in an interview on The Muse, why she likes working for the company.

“I think it’s kind of exciting to be defining this new product. It’s not just about building this really cool product from the ground up but also building a team around it and thinking about those organizational challenges and how to scale out that team and preserve that culture. Joining Pinterest now is a really fabulous opportunity to build a product that can change a lot of people lives for the better. It is something that we hope don’t just use but actually love. There is so opportunity ahead of us it is a little freighting and very exciting at the same time,” described Tracy Chou.

Women opening up the opportunity’s in the in computer industry to say women are empowered to make a different. Tracy Chou’s career development can gives a lot of value to the importance of why women should go into the computer industry. It is always about building networking but changing the way things are developed.
As the world continues to become more connected through technology, social networking it is essential to our development into careers, organizations, lifestyles to have these websites. Everything is connected online. Tracy Chou is one of the biggest affects to our community by working with the different online social networks and is an aspiration to us all. Google, Facebook, Quora and Pinterest all have extensive works that she has developed with her software engineering.

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6 comments:

  1. This is awesome to learn about! More women should be involved in the computing world. This field is so advanced and more women's names should be involved. Tracy Chou is a good role model for any woman who is interested in involving themselves in this field. Pinterest is a very well known media for our society. Our generation uses this site to learn recipes. Her quote was perfect to include in your blog

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  2. I absolutely enjoyed this post and for this women to do all this in her career, is a great accomplishment.Her career can show that many women that want to give up to keep trying, and I feel as if there aren't enough women in this field because we are so discourage of what and how some men treat us.

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  4. This was a wonderful post. I am a big fan of Pinterest. I had no idea that the software engineer of Pinterest was a women. This was a perfect way to acknowledge women that are contributing to the computer industry. This has encouraged me to learn more about women that are working in this industry.

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  5. I also enjoy using Pinterest so it is great to hear about women doing important jobs in social networking that I use. I think that Tracy Chou sounds like a very accomplished person! I am really impressed with how much she has done at what seems to be a very young age! She is an inspiration to not only women in the computing world, but women in general. I really liked getting to learn about what she has done.

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  6. This post really stood out to me personally. I find it extremely interesting to learn more about the women in the industry and to see how successful they are. I feel like their abilities and successes are somewhat downsized in our society so I think it is great to learn more about such a successful person. I absolutely love Pinterest, so it made it even more fun to learn about someone who is behind all of the action!

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