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# Damana Madden - software engineer, girl geek, technologist
- URL: https://katecarruthers.com/conversations-with-annie-kate-guest-damana-madden/
- Published: 2020-07-23T23:36:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T13:31:38.000Z
- Author: Kate Carruthers
- Tags: ideas, podcast, startups, technology, women, featured, #wp, #Import 2026-10-03 23:30

For this episode of the *Conversations with* [*Annie*](https://annieparker.me/?ref=katecarruthers.com) *&* [*Kate*](https://katecarruthers.com/) we had another fascinating chat, this time with Damana Madden. Apart from having the coolest headphones, Damana has diverse experience working across many industries as a software engineer, and has some strongly held opinions.

> Damana is in her twenty-third year working as a software engineer. She resides in Seattle, Washington and works for Amazon in the Amazon Publishing organisation. She manages software engineering teams who build high availability large scalable systems.  
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> Damana has worked in many verticals from finance, media, biometrics, government to books books books now.  
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> She founded Girl Geek Dinners in Australia and NZ, and describes herself as: “Ex-Thoughtworks. Ex-Microsoft. Ex-compliant.”

This episode (and all the others) are available on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAgT1MYIT7XIY3CA3qAanrw?ref=katecarruthers.com) and your favourite [podcast apps](https://womenswork.me/2020/06/23/conversations-with-annie-kate-links/?ref=katecarruthers.com).