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Shabana Ahmed is a Senior UX Designer and has spent over 10 years designing experiences and interfaces for International companies & startups. Her experience covers everything from finance to health tech and she’s presented and led UX workshops around the world.

Shabana’s passion for design and improving everyday experiences is so apparent in everything she does. She’s also written and illustrated a children’s book!

Key Lessons From This Episode:

⭐  How to evaluate if a job aligns with your values and the benefits of changing jobs frequently (5:02)

⭐  The growth that comes when we are brave and accept change (8:05)

⭐  How to keep going when things don't work out as you expect (10:36)

⭐  How Shabana approaches solving UX problems (19:07)

⭐  The lessons Shabana learned from Hajj (25:47)

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we're excited to have Shaheen Sultana

Shaheen is a QA Analyst at Aventum Group. She loves to speak at various conferences and blogs to share knowledge and connect with more people in the community.

• Once you have knowledge, you can demand what you're worth (10:10)
• The more you do wrong, the more you learn (17:33)
• Don't limit yourself by only asking for feedback and guidance from only your field (19:00)

Show Notes and Transcript: https://www.tech-sisters.com/2022/12/shaheen-sultana

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we're excited to have Zahraa Al Sahili.

Zahraa is a current PhD Student at Queen Mary University of London and Google DeepMind PhD Scholar. Zahraa is also an AI Session Lead a Udacity.

• Zahraa's experience studying in Beirut during the height of the economic crisis (2:32)
• Zahraa's favourite AI project (7:30)
• The complexity of removing implicit bias from AI (10:00)

Show Notes and Transcript: https://www.tech-sisters.com/2022/12/zahraa-al-sahili/

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we're excited to have Marwa Jawad

Marwa enjoys developing things that live on the internet. Her interest in web development started back in 2018 when she decided to try to make her ideas into real projects with HTML & CSS! Fast-forward to today, and Marwa had the privilege of working on a variety of real projects using the latest techniques

• Marwa's experiences as a developer in Iraq (2:00)
• Be ready for opportunities before you get them (4:30)
• Without mistakes, you never learn (11:10)

Show Notes and Transcript: https://www.tech-sisters.com/2022/12/marwa-jawad/

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we're excited to have Fatma Elasouad

Fatma is a hardworking, motivated and knowledge-hungry developer; currently working as a cloud data engineer at BT. She’s also a co-founder of @Inclusive.Code a community that shares their experience as Early Career Developers, many of whom have made a career switch into Tech, in order to spread visibility and hopefully show others who have the same ambition that Tech needs their passion and unique perspective.

Fatma was also part of the winning team of the ShowCode Athena 2022 hackathon and was recently shortlisted as a finalist for both the Rising Star of the Year - Tech and the Role Model of the Year - Tech, for the Women in Tech Excellence Awards 2022

• How Fatma built up her experience while she transitioned from education into tech (5:32)
• What led to Fatma co-founding Inclusive Code (10:52)
• Fatma's insights as a STEM ambassador (23:29)

Show Notes and Transcript: https://www.tech-sisters.com/2022/12/fatma-elasouad/

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we're excited to have Esraa Qandeel.

Esraa is a software engineer at Trilogy. She graduated from Al Azhar University and has a master's degree in computer software engineering from Arizona State University

• Esraa's top tips for surviving technical interviews (9:25)
• Don't face huge complex problems head-on. Break them down into small pieces first (19:35)
• Esraa's experience working in tech as a niqabi (28:43)
• If companies care about the quality of their code, I should care about the quality of my life (40:10)

Show Notes and Transcript: https://www.tech-sisters.com/2022/11/esraa-qandeel/

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we're excited to have Shahed AlMashni

Shahed is currently a software engineer at Google working on Sovereign Cloud. Previously, Shahed has held internships at Amazon, Meta, and Google.

• How competitive programming helped Shahed pass her technical interviews (3:53)
• What kept Shahed applying for internships even though she didn't get any responses for two years (6:00)
• Shahed's growth mindset and how it helps her become a better version of herself every year (12:00)

Show Notes and Transcript: https://www.tech-sisters.com/2022/11/shahed-almashni/

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we're excited to have Hawa Camara

Hawa is a freelance Copywriter working with the Brandz Bee on the Tech Sisters rebranding project.

She loves to write personality-filled copy that goes right to the heart and boosts conversions.

• Why Hawa feels her ADHD is a blessing and a curse (11:39)
• "Good copywriting is when you understand what people want, how they want it, and when they want it" (14:53)
• "No one can touch me because I'm comfortable with who I am" (21:50)
• Find a way to keep going. Even if I fall, I have to get up and figure it out, even if I don't know how. (27:50)
• "If someone doesn't like you, it doesn't matter. They don't pay your bills, and they never will!" (45:47)

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Today on Tech Sisters Stories we’re excited to have Yulianna Frederika

Yulianna is a multi-faceted creative with expertise in graphic design, branding, social media & content creation across various industries who believes that thought-provoking content inspires actionable change.

She’s a social media manager at Rice Media and co-founder of Lepak Conversations which focuses on engaging social change-makers around issues concerning the Malay/Muslim community

• Design and tech should be available and accessible to everyone (3:50)
• Yulianna's approach to inclusive social media (14:45)
• Why Yulianna sees being a minority as her superpower (22:00)

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