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Natasha de Canha

Natasha de Canha is a back end Umbraco developer at Perplex Digital based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She is small island girl living in the Netherlands who has a passion for programming, gaming, traveling, cooking and playing with her bunny Chip.

The Double Negative (Programmer)

As a woman from Aruba, Natasha faces two challenges in the tech industry in the Netherlands as part of a male-dominated career and as a foreigner who didn't speak Dutch as her first language. Now part of the team at Perplex, she discusses the difficulty of her "double negative", and how those became positive traits in an industry that benefits from diverse voices.