Women in IT- Sara Haider

   If you search for the name Sara Haider on Google you would likely see a female musician's Wikipedia profile. Stop right there. That is not the IT personality we are talking about.

So who then is this Sara Haider?

   She's a 28 year old woman listed in glamour.com as one of  35 women under 35 who are changing the Technology industry. According to Glamour, she and her sister have been coding since they were 9 years old making websites for things that interested them like the Backstreet boys.

   Although this name might not be so common to most people she has accomplished a lot of things in the Technology industry.

What has she done?
   She has worked at Twitter as a staff software engineer  and has helped built Vine app for android. She has also worked as the first lead engineer for Secret, a relatively new social networking site.

   Currently she works at Periscope Tv as a staff software engineer.
   She is also an advisor at Girls Who Code which is a non profit organization that is aimed at bridging the gender gap in the computer science and technology industry.
She is most proud of getting sponsorship and seed funding for the organization when it was starting up.

Here's a photo of her after the cut:

Sara Haider
Image credit: Glamour.com