Sahar Khan

After spending 3 years at Amazon working as a Manager in Operations and moving up the ranks, I realized that I was not on a career path that I was passionate about. I had been thinking about building an app to fix a problem I truly care about: Increasing inclusion and participation in endurance sporting events by enabling new-comers to the sport to learn, practically, how to train. I spent some time researching the best strategy to make it happen and after some soul searching realised that I was going to learn to code and build this myself. I completed the 9 week LeWagon intensive web-development bootcamp, with the last two weeks building a basic MVP of my product. The 6 months after the boot camp were spent touching up and testing the app before launching it late last year.

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The three things I wish I’d known when I started my tech journey

After graduating from university in 2016, I found myself working for one of the biggest tech companies in the world, Amazon. Although ironically, I was working as far away from tech in operations, managing up to a hundred warehouse staff at a time. I watched the guys working in tech and the entrepreneurs starting new ventures with envy thinking there was no way I’d be able to segway my career in that direction now that I had started climbing the corporate ladder.