Episode 099 – Open Source Pancreas with Sarah Withee

 
Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, teacher and mentor, and hardware and robot tinkerer located in Pittsburgh, PA. She has a passion for technology, and has ever since she wrote her first computer programs in elementary school.

Sarah has given incredibly popular conference technical talks (including the only encore she’s ever heard of) as well as powerful talks capable of making people laugh and cry at the same time. She’s given workshops to teach programming and hardware building to women in tech, as well as to students of all ages. She’s mentored middle and high school robotics teams to world championships. She’s even helped organize four conferences, been on a Google Year in Search video, and started the viral hashtag #SpeakerConfessions.

She passionately tries to connect with people and communities, both online and offline, and encourage and support new people going in tech. She even started a podcast, The Rest of Us in Tech, to try to help boost underrepresented groups in tech.
 

Links

https://geekygirlsarah.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahwithee/
https://twitter.com/geekygirlsarah
https://github.com/geekygirlsarah
https://www.twitch.tv/geekygirlsarah

Resources

Open APS
Loop Kit
Nightscout
Heroku
Abstractions Conference

“Tempting Time” by Animals As Leaders used with permissions – All Rights Reserved

Episode source