Women working in technology at Iress share their inspiring stories.

My interest in technology started in my father's workshop. A mechanical engineer by trade, he tinkered on designs in his garage at home, where I would watch him for hours. Now I'm a software engineer, designing and building the software that helps financial services companies all over the world.

From mainframes to the Cloud

I loved programming at school so studying Computer Science was a natural choice for me. As luck would have it, schools in South Africa started teaching computer studies during the 1970's, which opened an exciting new world of programming and problem-solving.

A lot has changed since then of course. In those early days, there were no microcomputers for learning purposes, everything happened on enormous mainframes. My journey started with flowcharts, assembler, JCL, and punch cards. Now I program in.Net and C# and am learning about implementing Cloud technology

Aim high

I've been in this job for 35 years but I haven't stopped learning. Software engineering is constantly evolving, and the rapid acceleration of technology is part of the allure of it all .There's been times when things haven't quite worked out as planned but they say 'failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success', and this has helped me to see every project as an opportunity for growth.

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