Hi there! I’ve been busy, but I promise it’s all for great reasons.
First, I was accepted into Phase 1 of the Cloud Native Foundations course for the SUSE Scholarship program by Udacity.
I started this challenge June 7th, the same day I started an internship, and finished in time for the 4th of July weekend. I dedicated around 2–3 hours per day, 3 days a week for completing the activities after my internship. Of course, I left room to rest my brain and enjoy the outdoors.
In the Udacity course, I understood different cloud concepts such as monoliths and…
Growing up, I would be called on by family members to troubleshoot issues with a computer or the Internet. At the time, I didn’t consider working in the technology field. I studied sociology in college and was all set on law school.
While working in case management, I learned a few aspects of computer and IT support from helping colleagues fix minor issues with their computers. Because I worked in the company’s IT building, technical support was just a walk up the stairs. Lots of ideas and collaboration took place, and it was the first time I heard about AWS…

From Sociology to Cloud Computing. This is the story of #BlackGirlMagic