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In Conversation with
Hua Szu Yang
A Techronicler interview with Hua Szu Yang
Techronicler: Thank you for joining us! Tell us a bit about yourself, focusing on your experience in tech + what you currently do for work and passion projects!
Hua Szu Yang:
I am currently exploring new ideas in social infrastructure and human connection, with my background in software engineering and product development. My experiences have included backend engineering in green energy, product management and data science in developer tools and artificial intelligence ecosystems, revenue operations in enterprise security, user experience design and marketing in banking, and academic research on venture capital. Throughout my ongoing journey, I delight in crafting a world in which humans and technology come together to solve day-to-day problems that we face. I am also a member of Rewriting the Code.
Techronicler: What problem are you most excited to be working on right now?
Hua Szu Yang:
I am curious about addressing loneliness as a public health concern. Enablers, education, support systems, and third places that help us thrive in our human relationships are my current and lifelong fascination.
Techronicler: What skill has been most important to your growth in tech so far?
Hua Szu Yang:
Applying a growth mindset helps me to be coachable when welcoming feedback and resilient when encountering setbacks. There is always more to learn. I trust myself to adapt to change. I have been one of a dozen employees at a startup and joined companies hundreds of thousands strong, interviewed salespeople to learn their needs and visited schoolteachers in classrooms to understand their challenges, started initiatives as the first builder and managed employees, delivered slides to boards and edutainment videos for parents, presented launches on stage and fielded customer support tickets behind the scenes. All of these experiences and the people I collaborated with have gifted me lessons that power my continuous improvement. I feel alive because I am evolving and in motion.
Techronicler: What is some advice you want to give to other young-in-their-industry women entering the tech space? / What advice would you give to your younger self entering tech?
Hua Szu Yang:
Your career path is yours to shape. There is no one way to succeed. The more we convene and learn each other’s stories, the more we see and let ourselves be seen as women who are making careers in all sorts of ways.
Techronicler: What do you want people to understand about women in tech that often gets missed?
Hua Szu Yang:
Women pioneers have been foundational to the advancement of technology and will continue to be. For a spellbinding afternoon, grab your favorite snack and read about the history of women whose blood, sweat, and tears created the technologies we enjoy today.
Techronicler: What is the one problem or project that is taking up 80% of your brain space this month?
Hua Szu Yang:
I am building a project to encourage humans to go out and interact with the world, and help them to reflect candidly about their interpersonal behaviors and embodied experiences. This project draws on my knowledge from the technology industry about how human and technical systems work together to activate a real-world feedback loop.
Techronicler: What is the one book every woman in tech should read this year?
Hua Szu Yang:
Read your own self-documentation, whether that is revisiting your childhood journals or reading back through your essays and technical reflections from the past year. Let’s audit our internal wisdom as rigorously as we audit our codebases. We are not passive consumers of tech culture. We are the authoritative authors of our own architecture.
I am currently exploring new ideas in social infrastructure and human connection, with my background in software engineering and product development. My experiences have included backend engineering in green energy, product management and data science in developer tools and artificial intelligence ecosystems, revenue operations in enterprise security, user experience design and marketing in banking, and academic research on venture capital. Throughout my ongoing journey, I delight in crafting a world in which humans and technology come together to solve day-to-day problems that we face. I am also a member of Rewriting the Code.