Today on the show I'll be speaking with Amber Kearney.

Amber is a product manager at Capital One. Prior to Capital One, Amber worked at Deloitte Digital, a creative consultancy within Deloitte Consulting, as a product manager. Amber is also experienced in various business and marketing roles and holds an MBA with a concentration in Leadership. Amber’s interest lie at the intersection of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and product management. Her mission is to empower and educate minorities and women to pursue roles in technology.

In our conversation, we get into...

• Her journey into Product Management and her role as Product Manager at Capital One
• Balancing between product management and technical product development
• Diversity and inclusion in the work place at a large company
• The hard problems that are solved in product management
• Branding and content creation for yourself vs a company

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did, let's go!

Amber Kearney:

• Website: www.amberkearney.com
• Twitter: @amberkearneymba
• Instagram: @amberkearneymba
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberkearney/

INTP Podcast:

• Twitter: @INTPPodcast
• Website: www.intppod.com

Today on the show I'll be speaking with Poala Mata.

Paola is an iOS Engineer, a tech community leader, and a strong advocate for diversity. She is currently building great cooking experiences for The New York Times, and co-organizing the Women in iOS community. Paola regularly devotes her time to supporting and guiding new programmers of color. She does all this from the comfort of her home office in Philadelphia, where she is also raising a puppy.

Socials:

Paola Mata:

• Twitter: @PaolaNotPaolo
• Website: pmatanyc.github.io

INTP Podcast:

• Twitter: @INTPPodcast
• Website: www.intppod.com

Today on the show I'll be speaking with Sidney Buckner.

Sidney is a Software Engineer living in St. Louis, Missouri. During the day, she grumbles and makes faces at her code and helps mentor the next generation of awesome minds in STEM. By night, she can be seen grumbling at the faces she makes in her videos about tech, lifestyle, and giving unsolicited advice.

In our conversation, we get into...

• Her journey from working as a property management assistant to becoming a software engineer
• How two coding bootcamps brought about two TOTALLY different experiences for her
• Taking advantage of the mentorship opportunities in a fresh new position, and much more
• How to approach refactoring old code
• Introspection and change during a global pandemic

Socials:

Sidney Buckner:

• Twitter: @sidneybuckner18
• Youtube: Sidney Buckner
• Website: www.sidneybuckner.com

INTP Podcast:

• Twitter: @INTPPodcast
• Website: www.intppod.com