Back to Tech

Hi, I’m Natasha.

I’m a 22 year old trainee web developer with nology.io and I happen to be the only woman on my intake.

I haven’t done anything with tech since I was 16 years old. Where I was once told that I could make “a million pound app” – which led me to instantly laugh at my teacher in disbelief. Not knowing that it would be the comment that would push me back into the tech industry 6 years later. (well that, and “if you don’t get an A* overall grade in computing I will break your legs”)

I shortly went from finishing year 11 with 2 IT qualifications (I was half a mark away from an A* -if anybody was wondering- and some how managed to escape without broken legs) as well as some catering and hospitality qualifications to then throw myself into a hospitality degree I didn’t overly enjoy. It did however, set up my career for the last 6 years.

After 6 years in hospitality working my way up to a supervisor at 17 becoming a manager by 19; changing from working in a cinema for 5 years to doing a year in a hotel as part of the events management team. I still had my computing teacher stuck in the back of my head pulling me back to tech.

Being one of two females in my school computing class and being the only female on my _nology intake, it has become important to me that I find amazing role models and strive to be one for others too. I have always found that female tech role-models are difficult to come across. The _nology team have been amazing making sure I am comfortable in the office, introducing me to other ladies I can talk to and sending me links to female only meetups based around the tech industry. So as my course goes along I will be dipping my toes into the meetups and network. Hopefully finding a great role-model and may be becoming one for someone else along the way.