product manager Microsoft
Currently a product manager for the SwiftKey team in Microsoft London. I work closely with developers, data science, and community to build user-centric features with decisions driven by data.
[october 2018 - present]
I'm a 2018 alumna from the University of Pennsylvania with a BSE in computer science. One of my deepest interests is diversity & inclusion in tech. During college in 2015 I founded FemmeHacks, one of the world's first annual hackathons for those identifying as women or non-binary.
I also helped with other STEM outreach in the Philadelphia local community. Our Women in Computer Science club regularly hosted events like coding workshops and panels where I taught or advised students. Many of us WiCS members were also teachers for Tech It Out Philly, a weekend web-development program for inner-city students. I spent a few years as a teaching assistant for CIS110, Penn's intro CS class.
Outside of tech you'd find me enjoying all water sports 🌊, finding new 100% bean to bar chocolate 🍫, and petting shibas in one of London's many parks 🐶. Talk to me about anything Balkan-related!
skills
Product management
Work w/ dev, design, data science, and marketing teams
Java
Most of my coding experience derives from Java and some C
Python
My first programming language! (With the first project being a video game)
Web dev
Learned for fun outside of school and work
Languages
Fluent in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian; conversational in Spanish
Work Experience
program manager intern Microsoft
PM in Office on the File IO team in Redmond, WA. I researched and wrote a technical spec on the
File->Move and File->Delete features that Word, Excel, PowerPoint were pursuing.
[summer 2017]
software engineering intern Qualcomm
SWE intern on the Modem Performance team in San Diego, CA. I built an internal tool that allowed my team to test mobile phone modems in our lab's simulated cellular network.
[summer 2016]
undergraduate technical intern Intel
Technical intern on the Internet of Things team in San Jose, CA. I researched IoT solutions for Intel to invest in and wrote docs on the now-retired Edison makerboard.
[summer 2015]
Education
I graduated in 2018 with a degree in computer science. Some classes I took were:
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Operating Systems
- Machine Learning
- Software Design
My favorite classes were in the Russian & Eastern European Studies and Gender Studies departments, taught by professors like Kristen Ghodsee.
I attended an all-girls high school outside of Philadelphia which encouraged me to pursue STEM!
Read more about FemmeHacks
March 2017
The beginning
Here is a 2017 article I guest-wrote about my initial feeling of being unsuited for studying computer science and how FemmeHacks' "culture" hopes to refute that feeling in others.
February 2016
Penn's student newspaper
The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn's student newspaper, interviewed organizers and participants. With the help of an incredible organizing team, FemmeHacks has grown from 30 to 250+ annual participants (with great sponsors like DuckDuckGo and Jane Street in tow)!
March 2019
University visitors
Penn's President Dr. Amy Gutmann and Engineering School Dean Vijay Kumar dropped by in 2019 to hear from hackers themselves about their experiences.