Dawn Chandler

Software Engineer, Skip the Dishes

software engineering, software development, coding, programming, women in tech, women in computer science, computer science, diversity and inclusion, linguistics, languages, AI, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, deep learning

Media

How does technology keep up with ever-evolving language on race and identity? We asked people who write dictionaries

Gender disparities in engineering and computing science at SFU and its effects on female students

Biography

Dawn Chandler is a software engineer at Skip the Dishes, currently working remotely. She did her undergrad at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada, where she studied Computer Science and Linguistics. She is the former President of SFU's Women in Computer Science (WiCS) group, with whom she organized outreach conferences to high school girls, gave career development workshops, and founded a mentorship program. Chandler has done five internships in software engineering across North America: Environment Canada (Vancouver), Thomson Reuters (Toronto), IBM (Toronto), Collective Health (San Francisco), and Microsoft (Seattle). She makes use of her Linguistics background when learning new languages and in keeping up with topics around the application of to language.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-chandler/

Expertise

  • software engineering
  • software development
  • women in tech
  • women in computer science
  • computer science
  • linguistics
  • diversity