Five Great Tech Women. Happy International Women’s Day.

World is celebrating the International Women’s Day. This 8th of March will be her day! I think celebrating her happiness for just one day is not fair. I consider every day as Women’s day! Of course we all have women in our life. Caring mother, loving sister, sweet wife and a darling daughter. Every girl is special and has her own special life. She makes other’s life special as well. Today, here at Tech Samay, we are also celebrating this wonderful day. We are going to feature five ladies around the globe who are working in the IT sector and making their country and family proud. These girls has immense knowledge and power. Let us see the women who made our life simpler by their work and also how they became icons to other female IT aspirants. Have a look.

This list is randomly selected which I felt best. Of course there are many other women too who are working best. People says that women can’t handle IT solutions and they can’t be programmer. But this this totally wrong. Even women have same logical and programming skills as men. You will be amazed to read this about these techy girls. Just read on.

Ruchi Sanghvi

She really has a great mind. Ruchi Sanghvi, born in 1982, considered as the first lady engineer at the most popular social networking site Facebook. She was responsible for the design and creation of the “News Feed” concept of Facebook. She gave an awesome thing to Facebook. Now you can see the news feed just in the homepage! In 2010, she quit Facebook and started a new company called Cove. Later on the company was acquired by Dropbox and so as the employees. She became VP of Dropbox! Besides this, she invest in other companies too and she is worth Millions of dollars now.

Gina Trapani

She hacked millions of life in January 2005! Gina, founder of lifehacker.com is now one of the popular lady bloggers in this world. She developed many products which made revolution in tech market. Todo.txt was the hit from her. Lifehacker is a blog about technology and now many professional bloggers work there. It has listed to top 500 sites of the world. She got many accolades for her blog.

Kumud Srinivasan

Kumud Srinivasan presently work as Intel India’s President. She worked with Intel more than 25 years and given her awesome knowledge to the company for their benefit. She has master’s degree in information and library science from Syracuse University. She also completed her doctoral coursework in information science at the University of California—Berkeley. She is inspiration to many other women.

Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya

Hey, don’t go in her looks. She can hack you! Kristina is Russian hacker and computer expert. She hacked many bank accounts including Bank of America. Now you may wonder why this lady is in the list of great peoples. Yes, she is great in her mind. She has awesome knowledge and expertise over programming and hacking. She can easily hack many big databases. She is money mule hacker. Transferred millions of dollars in her account! To feature her in this list is to show the power of girls. Even girls can hack easily. She did it in wrong way. She can also use her knowledge in good works too.

Rashmi Sinha

The face behind SlideShare! Yes, Rashmi Sinha, an Indian-American businesswoman and CEO of SlideShare.com. Her SlideShare project comes under top 100 website in the world. SlideShare is web based documents sharing website. Mainly PowerPoint presentation is shared in this website. You can get presentation of almost everything from pin to piano! She is Indian and she was born in Lucknow. Educated at Brown University and UC Berkeley. Before this she did BA and MA (in psychology) from Allahabad University.

And there are many more… Women are growing in IT industry too with great success. Today, almost fifty percent of IT employees and students are girls, making this world more awesome. After reading this post I hope you deleted that misunderstanding file from your mind’s hard drive that women cannot be ITian! I hope you liked this article. Share this with your friends, sisters, mothers and everyone. And if you are a girl, I want to wish you a very Happy Women’s Day! Take care of yourself, world need you! Go through these words.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

-Michelle Obama, First Lady, United States.

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