"Under Control" - Aditi Soni

With Aditi Soni Software Engineer Amazon

This week I had the honor to speak to Aditi; you can watch the entire interview on YoutTube, or listen to all podcasts. Aditi is a community lover and a passionate developer. She keeps contributing to various technical communities as an organizer or a speaker. As a personal interest, she develops mobile Applications. She is also a Google India Udacity Android Developers Nanodegree 2018 Scholar. Reading about new inventions and breakthroughs keeps her motivated. She always tries to empower women with the power of community to help women achieve the things they aim for. Happiness is a choice, and she firmly believes that one should always keep the child inside them alive.

Aditi has been featured by Google Developers Blog, All her hard work paid off. In 2017, she became a Women Techmakers lead in Indore and took her first flight on an airplane to the WTM Leads Summit in Bangalore. The same year, she became a Microsoft Student Partner and attended Google Developer Days India. In 2018, Aditi earned the Google India Udacity Android Developers Nanodegree Scholarship, as one of the top 150 students from India, and graduated with a Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in computer science. In 2019, Women Techmakers awarded Aditi a travel grant to Madrid, Spain to attend the Firebase Summit. Read full article here .

Aditi also has a blog where she writes about her community journey, and you can, and from her blog, this quote caught my eye, read the full blog here.

As someone has said, ‘’Change is not easy’’. Yes, it was not a fairy-tale ride for me, but rather a roller coaster one. Learning programming was difficult but not impossible without the internet and laptop. I tried very hard, gave up so many times, went through all that frustration, and cried many-a-times, but didn’t quit. And that was the point I started winning myself. I was learning; I was growing. It was all just a phase, and it taught me so many things. Then I got my first laptop, which was a “grease-the-wheels” moment for me.

Thank you for what you do, Aditi!

Key takeaway from the interview, listen to Aditi answer this question"How do you deal with failure and rejection" Listen to her response below.