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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Taylor Poindexter.

Taylor Poindexter is the co-founder of Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to provide a safe space for Black Engineers to collaborate and grow their skills. In addition to this, she is a Senior Back End Engineer for a startup called tech co. A company that is working to make a more participatory democracy. Some awards she\u2019s received include: 2019 Power Woman of DC Tech, DC Fem Tech\u2019s 2018 Power Woman in Code, DC\u2019s 2017 Top Technologist, and 2017 Power Woman of DC Tech. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, working out, whiskey tasting, and spending time with her two amazing nephews.

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A note from Grant

Taylor Poindexter is a proud University of Virginia alumni, earning her degree in computer science\xa0 before launching her career in tech where she\u2019s held down roles like automation engineer, test engineer, back end engineer and now senior software engineer. \xa0

Never one to slow down, Taylor also co-founded the Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to provide a safe space for Black Engineers to collaborate and grow their skills in the Washington DC area. She has collected several awards including being selected as one of DC\u2019s Top Power Women as well as DC\u2019s Top Technologist in 2017.\xa0

-Grant Ingersoll

Quotes

\u201cThe amount of imposter syndrome I\u2019ve felt until the last 6 months has been at times overwhelming and there were genuine times when I thought that I couldn\u2019t make it in tech.\u201d

\u201cOn the back end I\u2019m handling all the data that is passed to the front end for you to be able to see and manipulate. I also write the algorithms to potentially be able to save that data to the database and then serve to the user when they come back.\u201d

\u201cI have several mentors I\u2019ve picked up along the way but they\u2019ve all happened very naturally. And I think those are the best types of mentor relationships because they genuinely care about the advancement of my career.\u201d

\u201cWhile I may have my own tickets to complete, I have to also make sure to be thinking of the broader vision and the implication of the tickets we\u2019re working on now so we\u2019re set up for success.\u201d

\u2014Taylor Poindexter

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