Elaine Zhou
Software Engineer
Playlists
All Videos (22)
- What I Do
- Captricity Software Application
- Typical Day
- Great Part
- Cool Projects
- Why a Software Engineer
- Why Girls Should Consider Software Engineering
- Challenges
- Skills to Develop
- Education
- Favorites
- Skills From Childhood
- Did It Anyway
- Heroes
- Goals
- Staying Motivated
- Family Support
- Advice
- Advice Mandarin
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Leadership Tips for Girls
- Teamwork in Software Engineering
Bio
Watch Elaine Zhou, VP of Engineering at Captricity, a high tech startup in Oakland, CA, share how she manages a team of over 20 software engineers and product managers to build a program that can recognize your handwriting on a piece of paper and turn it into digitized data. The most rewarding part of her job is getting to work around brilliant people as they work as a team to solve this enormous challenge. Her advice for girls who want to be engineers is to start early and especially explore the fun part of science, technology and math subjects.
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