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So it's just me, I've been at this since 2019,
right, don't try to marry it as a
lecture but as a little chat
So I'll tell you mine Oh
wait, my trajectory
here in frontiend development and
also within the spectrum autistic I'm going
to give another description of myself I'm a
black woman I wear glasses I have
brown hair I'm wearing a
striped polo shirt a jacket a
saffron coat jeans and a t-shirt
So as there wasn't much here
to put my first talk I
I've been a Frontier developer at zup
since 2020. I made my
career transition in 2019. And I have a degree in
literature from USP. In other words, I made a career transition.
Let me see, so I'll tell
you a little bit about what I did
before in my Frontier
here I will also describe
my slides here are two
embroidered photos, one of the flags of
Spain and the other of the United States
because I was an
English and Spanish teacher
before joining the field, I stayed, I
worked from 2015,
not 2005. until 2012 after 2012 I
started working in a
translation and proofreading agency,
also always in the Spanish and
English area, proofreading and translating
documents, but I left that company
in 2017, I didn't really know what to do,
I was fighting depression
as well, what I wanted, I knew I did
n't want to go back to work as a
teacher,
so I started studying
some forms of
career transition and I
started studying HTML CSS on my own,
that was until 2018 and until The first
stop here on my little boat
was the laboratory, how I found out about this
project,
I was on Facebook, then I
was there on Facebook, there was a
post about the laboratory's selection process,
I didn't even know what it was at the time,
I went to get Pinheiro before I
can register here you can
see two Polaroid photos, one
with the laboratory logo on the
left and a Black girl sitting on the
sofa with the computer on her lap here on the
right, it is an initiative that emerged in
Peru in 2014 and arrived here in Brazil in
2018, the objective was not to include
women in the technology field, so I
went through a selection process in which
I
firstly, the first phase of the process was
a general knowledge test, a
logical reasoning and
personality test, then I passed for
pre-work, this pre-work was
basic programming classes,
but after the pre-work I
went through an interview that was
in person at Ibemec headquarters and in the
last phase was a mission beach
where I went and returned the request from Ibmec.
for three days to get to know the girls
who were also at
this stage, get to know the laboratory team
and also to find out what the
methodology is like. Since it is a bootcamp that
lasts 6 months, well, in
December I received the and -mail saying that
I was one of those approved
and so
it was a very complicated journey because
it was six months and we had classes from
Monday to Friday from 1pm to 6pm, then
taking public transport there and
then returning home by train, I
live in west zone
and
at the same time it was a very
difficult request for me because I was very
anxious that I wanted to go back to work
anyway I was there with the
Tax syndrome there at the highest level
thinking that I had stolen
another girl's place something like that
and with a certain difficulty also to
assimilate the botecamp contents it was
a very tough journey it was a
tough experience for me because I was in this
transition process but at the same time
it was a cool experience because I
met a lot of wonderful people with Who do
I have contact with to this day
and after six months I
and at the end of that time the girls
receive a job recommendation and
participate in an event called Talent
Fest,
it's an event that several companies
participate in
and I didn't receive a
job recommendation In the end, I still
wasn't ready to be able to work
as a developer at Frontier
But that's okay, I was disappointed,
but there was no other solution than to
continue studying, right?
So what did I do, I continued in
contact with the people at laboratory
mainly with Samanta, who is a
wonderful psychologist who always provided
support for the girls
and she referred me to
another psychologist who was going to do a
job interview simulation, right,
with all the students who graduated, I
got there on the day at the scheduled time,
everything was always there at Ibmec, which was all
in person,
but later Samanta told me that the
psychologist's opinion, she said that
she suspected something,
was suspicious of something I
might have and suggested something that I I
had to go through a neurological exam, but
I couldn't afford it. Neurological things
are very expensive.
So, I continued studying.
I was preparing for a surgery
that I was going to have through the SUS
and it was in 2020.
discharge home
when I received an email,
a message on WhatsApp
inviting me to participate in a
selection process for a program called
generating twins from this company here, which is
a zombie, don't leave it,
leave it here, zoop is a
High Tech consultancy, I think you Have you heard
that it was created in Uberlândia in
Minas Gerais in 2011? Here's
one on the left with the WhatsApp logo in the
middle. I
had to answer some
questions in the first phase, then
after that, I had to
record a video of up to 30 seconds
telling why I was making a
career transition. After this phase
of the video, I presented a project, in
fact it was supposed to be just one project in three
that the two people who were going to do it
with me gave up for some reason
and I ended up doing the project alone
but it was really cool, it was a lot of work but it was
cool, it was a react project that was about
sharing videos
and I
was there alone in a room at Google MIT
with 15 people
extremely nervous because I was there
trying to decide my future and my
career. I was one of the 10 people
approved for this genius program
and I spent six months in this program.
In fact, I think it's being
discontinued, I even need to inform myself
properly
and after these six months I feel like it's an
Itaú project that remains for those who don't
know
for those who even know, Itaú bought the ups
in 2019 So now it's the PT that
belongs to the Itaú group
and I'm on the WhatsApp triggers project,
which is a system for receiving
messages, sending messages
about
products, services for
warnings, understanding the life of
undue payments, so I'm a developer at
Frontier there on this project and I
work with an angle which is the Framework
that was approved, it is approved by the
bank,
so regarding the issue, I had said
that I had seen a psychologist and
the psychologist had suspected
something and was suggested to take an exam,
I was just recapping it. I told
this manta that I was not in a position to
do this neurological exam yet but
that as soon as I
partially recovered from the surgery I would go after
it,
so I went through the selection process and
got into the UP and on the day I received the
news, some people
came in. contacted me saying that
they knew I was going to undergo a
neurological examination and I would have to undergo
an evaluation by a psychiatrist first,
as I had already been at ZUP for about three four
months, I went to a psychiatrist
from the company's health plan and he
sent me to another psychiatrist who
was not part of the plan but who was going to do a
more detailed assessment of me. I went to the
clinic that day, it was a very long session,
it was a one-hour session and then I
received a very high diagnosis,
two polaroid photos written autism on
English
and from that day that I received the
diagnosis it was not
something that I considered a
tragedy, quite the opposite, but since
I have this information I need to know
what I want to do with it and I
started to research more about autism I
started to research more about this
condition that I have
and so before I don't know if you have
heard of the
statistical manual and diagnosis of
mental disorders this manual is a reference for
psychiatrists all over the world
and before the fifth edition autism is the
divided it was Asperger's syndrome
autistic disorder And
oh boy, it's
autistic syndrome Asperger's syndrome is a
milder form in which we have
difficulty communicating difficulty
interacting with other people
autistic disorder is a little more
serious because it
has impairment in learning impairment in
verbal communication impairment in interaction
also with other people
and there is another type of autism which is a
regression In fact a regression that is
either gradual or sudden in
children over two years of age who may
lose the ability to speak There can be a
huge loss of communication
after the
dsm5 was published in 2013,
all these types of autism became
one, right, it was just that it was autistic
and now this disorder is divided into
levels, level 1, level 2 and level 3, level
1 it is the level at which I find myself which is
also impaired in social interaction
difficulty in communication that does not have any
impairment in learning level 2
impairment of cognitive activities
and with the person there may be difficulty in
speech as well and level 3 level 6 becomes more
serious because It's the level at which the person
needs
assistance to do some
things like taking a shower, brushing their
teeth, 15 minutes to go,
damn I spoke really fast and
so did I
when I found out that I have
autism spectrum disorder and I
started researching better about this
condition
I felt it was a relief for me, in
fact it was a very big relief
because I started to better understand how
I communicated with other people, I
started to understand myself better, the reason
that
for a long time of my life I
was always like that a very shy,
very withdrawn teenager,
so I
went from being a psychologist to a psychologist
even after I was an adult and I had to
live with the frustration of not knowing
how other people do,
not having the same type of behavior
as other people, I was something that
left me extremely upset,
especially in adolescence, it's a
phase when everyone has friends
and goes out to have fun and do a
lot of things and I
and I at the time didn't have the desire to
do these typical things that a
teenager did, so
it was a good request complicated
and so I was going to ask a question
that I should have asked before, has anyone
here gone through a
career transition too,
yes
and has anyone here also been
diagnosed with a disorder
as an adult with some disagreement Nilda, yes,
yes,
I would like to have I received this
diagnosis after, I don't know, still in
my adolescence, in my childhood, I
would like it because maybe the damage
wouldn't have been so great for me,
but
yes, it's okay,
now I understand, I understand myself better,
even after many, many years, I
'm starting to understanding myself better
and within the area of ​​technology was a
place in which I found myself, as
I
felt a lot of frustration for doing something
that I didn't want to do and that I
wasn't prepared for,
even with the pressure from my family, I
did it for a certain time but I
felt very bad about myself,
thinking that my classes were very bad
that the translation I did was very
bad
and within the area of ​​technology I
found myself I still have some
some holes there that I need to
fill, yes I do. mainly
in the part that refers to logic and also
within my trajectory as a
developer in Angola, I will
leave this for lectures, but
in the future,
and
if you or if you know
someone who suspects something, you
suspect that you may have it, so you may be
suspicious. have autism,
Attention Deficit Disorder or
something similar, take this
distrust to the end Look for a
specialized professional I know I know it
is
I know it is extremely expensive and I
couldn't I couldn't afford
it before but after I came back
working, right? I'm even going to work
in the middle of the pandemic, it was on the first
of June 2020 that I joined zup,
I've been there
for three years, I
've been on this project for the Itaú project on
WhatsApp triggers for more than three years now. It's been a couple of
years too
and what's my message here, right?
Vodka on this stage for you,
10 already
damn, technology is accessible
to everyone,
technology is something that
's changing my life a lot, it's changing
my life a lot. life and
the lives of all the different people I
've met as well
what I want to convey here is that it doesn't
matter if you don't matter what type
of Nildo divergence you have if
you have autism spectrum disorder
if you have ADHD
what
am I What can I say?
He has to insist, he has to insist
because it's not a very easy path,
I myself have found myself crying several
times, especially during the time
I was in the laboratory thinking Oh my
God, will I be able to do it? I was
extremely I'm anxious, right? Because I had
n't worked since 2007,
my family was already on top of me wanting
me to go back to work anyway
and I was still at the height of my depression,
so what I want to say here is
that it's a journey, it's not, it's not anymore. It's not
easy, I know it's not easy anymore,
but
I found a lot of cool people who have
supported me a lot inside and outside the
same laboratory and outside of Azul,
as well as
a wonderful community that welcomed me
and
this, my first talk here,
is precisely one of the ways that I want to
reciprocate
the welcome I received from the Technology community,
mainly
trying to inspire other women and other
girls
to enter this area, which is
still a mostly male area, but
I believe that
if there are more women, if there are more
women who can serve as a reference
of inspiration,
right, I'm far from that but
I believe that we can balance
things within the area and not just
for women and girls but
also for people who are
afraid of seeing people like me
I want I want mine message is that
it is possible
even though
working from Home Office has helped me
a lot it has helped me a lot
I know that not all companies now
want more Home Office work they want
work at least it is half face-to-face
half Home Office
But I believe that I believe that
there is room for everyone within
this area, whether as a Frontier As a back
end, whether in cyber security or in
laying down
what I can say is always see
what you see what you want to do
experiment what you want to do And then
you follow, right
? Try different things within the
same area and then you decide what you
want to do. If you want to, you're
also already in the area and want to move to
the back end. There's no problem. In this
case, we're going to have to study
a lot, so that
's something that I have also done every
day,
almost every day, I always say the
time to rest is to study, which is to
improve myself
as a front end as a developer in
Angola
and of course pass this knowledge on
to more girls and more
women for more people who
are also divergent like me
and
here in this last slide I left a
QR code for you if you want to take a photo
I made a linktree page where
my LinkedIn is,
my github repository too and I
also left some texts that I
I researched to be able to make this
presentation about
autistic expecto disorder about female autism,
which is something that is not yet widely
publicized
about dsm, I also did it, I put
some texts in some are
in English but most are in
Portuguese
and I want thank you from the bottom of my heart
aflipside who gave me this opportunity
to be here
and to thank you who
are also here on the front end stage and
this I just take a little bit of my
story that I tried to summarize
four years of trajectory in 25 minutes
So my Thank you very much from the bottom of my
heart, right
here, right
? I just have to thank you,
I don't want to delay
you, but then if you could
scan this code and give
me some feedback to see what
I can improve as a
speaker, what do you think? Did you like the
lecture? Thank you from the bottom of my heart,
thank you again
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