10 Inspiring Women in Tech - Ada Lovelace Day

Adele developed the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming. Smalltalk has had a big impact on the development of many other programming languages like Objective C, Java and Ruby.

Carol was one of the first female commercial video game designers. She’s mostly known as the designer for Activision’s River Raid on Atari 2600. Her co-worker Mike Albaugh called her the best programmer of the 6502 and probably one of the best programmers period.

Leonora shares her knowledge about Rust, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript under the name of Nora Codes. Her Rust posts and tutorials are very popular among our colleagues.

Una makes very easy to understand and very educational content on her own channels. She’s also one of the regular faces for CSS and devtools related news at Google. And she hosts the CSS Podcast. One of our favourite content creators.

In 2015 Ineke founded Girl Code to close the gender gap in tech. Since then she's been organising Girl Code meetups throughout the Netherlands. Check out the meetup page for upcoming events

Corinne is founder of Codam College. This unique educational institution is born out of her passion for innovation and technology. As a student at Codam, you do not pay tuition fees and you do not need any previous education. Our colleague Roos feels very lucky to have studied at Codam and finds Corinne very involved with the students.

Rachel works as a Technical Writer at Google. She shares her knowledge about the web and is (co)author of more than 20 books. Besides that she’s also a member of the CSS Working Group.

Lea is researching how to make web programming easier at MIT CSAIL. She speaks a lot at conferences and has multiple publications in her name. Lea is also a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group & CSS Working Group. 

Margaret was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. It was her code that got Apollo to the moon. She also came up with the term 'software engineering' and made it, despite the criticism it got at first, very popular. Nowadays people are proud to call themselves a software engineer. 

Marleen Stikker is a internet pioneer and founder of Waag. As the creator and 'mayor' of De Digitale Stad, she developed the first free gateway to a virtual community on the internet. Waag has grown into a leading European research institute for technology and society, encouraging active citizenship by developing open, fair and inclusive technology.

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