Community Spotlight: Elaine Marino
summary
Career change into Ruby and running a tech-events business leads to launching Equili and running Go Code Colorado, a state data hackathon that runs in five locations, sends 10 finalists to a mentor weekend, and awards the top three teams $25,000 each. Observes Colorado communities like Grand Junction, Montrose and Durango actually shipping work, diagnoses a “pipeline” versus a bigger “leaky faucet” retention problem, argues teams need a critical mass of three or four underrepresented engineers and concrete policies (maternity, childcare, respectful Slack norms).
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:32Elaines Bio
- 2:24Colorado Tech Trends
- 4:13Colorado vs Silicon Valley
- 5:47Is it possible to be happy in Colorado
- 7:19GoCode Colorado
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