Software Engineer, Panoply
Valerie Woolard Srinivasan is a software engineer at Panoply in Washington, DC, where she builds tools for podcasters in Ruby on Rails. She has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. She has taken a particular interest in teaching programming as a means of diversifying the field of software engineering. She leads the Women Who Code DC algorithms meetup and is always looking for fun and creative approaches to programming education. In addition to programming, she will gladly speak at length about running, American musical theatre, vegan cooking, and podcast recommendations. She lives in DC with her husband, who is also her best editor and advocate.