Nadya Primak
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Nadya Primak

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Nadya Primak is a software engineer who may or may not have worked at more jobs than she has fingers (and yes, she still has all her fingers). She was born in Krasnoyarsk, a small icy town in Siberia, grew up in Rochester, a small icy town in Minnesota, and went to college in Oberlin, a small, icy town in Ohio before finally putting her frigid past behind her and moving to Washington, DC, where the dark forecasts tend to be more political and less weather-related.

After taking classes in art and creative writing and dreaming of an exciting life in game design, she settled down into a career filled riveting tasks like designing the look of a mass email (which was never actually sent), changing the display of an app to make it five pixels wider (because every pixel counts) and attending team meetings on whatever company synergy is. Big tech companies, small startups, and even a liberal arts college—she has worked at them all.

Along the way, Nadya learned a great deal about programming, which is complicated, and about corporate culture, which is even more complicated. After a few moments where she wanted to pull out her hair in frustration, she wrote her first book, Foot in the Door, so that other people would be able to jump-start their career with their scalps intact. She has also published blog posts on Hackernoon, Code Like a Girl, and Gamasutra, and, now that her career has finally settled down, is working on catching up on her game-making. Her first VR game, Nightcrawler Bowling, is available on Steam.
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