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Damana Madden - software engineer, girl geek, technologist

For this episode of the Conversations with Annie & Kate 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.

Damana has worked in many verticals from finance, media, biometrics, government to books books books now.

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 and your favourite podcast apps.

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