VUW Women in Tech Profiles

SAS is focused on empowering people and organisations through knowledge and insight and I’m proud that I am going to be a part of that.

I know I have a support network that is understanding so I know I’ll never be left alone in the dark.

The feeling of being challenged with a task that has not yet been implemented before and finding a solution is the most rewarding part of my role and one of the coolest things in general in software engineering.

Failure isn’t failure if you learn something from it – then it becomes a stepping stone. People don't like to talk about bad times so it's hard to know, but more ‘successful people’ than you may realise bombed at something else before they started succeeding.

For me personally, coming out of University at the age of 20, I really wanted to be part of something that had some kind of relevance.