Gilda Castillo

Gilda's Story I first encountered a computer back in school in 2009, and I was captivated by it. I even participated in a blog creation competition using Blogspot and won. It was during this time that I realized optimizing the blog required knowledge of programming, but I hesitated to pursue it further. Here, women don't typically attend university, especially in fields like engineering or technology, which made me apprehensive. Two years ago, I worked in a customer service role at a company where I had communication with the product team, including the programmers. I found their work incredibly interesting. Surprisingly, there were very few women in the team, maybe just one or two among over 50 programmers. This experience drove me to visit schools and share with students that there are many more career options within the technology industry than what is commonly known here.