Build

There has been a lot of conversation in the tech community about how to build a pipeline of computer scientists for the next generation, bring awareness to groups that aren’t current represented and improve diversity numbers. While there’s been a lot of work and initiatives that have cropped up over the years, there’s still a lot to be done. Whether you believe in diversity or are skeptical about it, at some point your organization is going to want to scale its recruiting efforts. In today’s episode, Jessica McKellar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McKellar) and I are going to skip past the usual complaints, and get down and dirty into what is and isn’t working and why. Jessica is currently an engineering manager at Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) and was previously the Director of the Python Software Foundation (https://www.python.org/psf/). Jessica has also co-authored two books about computer programming (Twisted Network Programming Essentials - https://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Network-Programming-