Android software engineer

Brianna Smith* is an Android engineer with over 10 years of professional experience. She works at a company in the retail industry that has over 10,000 employees worldwide. Brianna is on the mobile team of six engineers with a mix of Android and iOS developers.

Brianna discovered that she wanted to be a software engineer back in high school, when she was a junior and heard her calculus teacher say something funny. “My teacher said, ‘A girl in computer science can write her own ticket.’ I was 16 at the time and didn’t know what that meant, but it sounded good.” At that time, she was already spending a lot of time on the computer and phone and became more interested in the computer science field. She quips, “Someone will pay me to do things that I love? Sounds like a great deal!” She decided to take some computer science classes offered at her high school and went on to major in computer science in college...