Tara Clark is a software engineer, currently working at Amazon.com in Seattle. She holds an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French with the Co-operative Education option from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is passionate about linguistics, bilingualism, women in computer science, curling, technology, and travel.
Waterloo’s co-op program was a huge advantage to start her career. Tara graduated with two years of work experience varied between large and small companies in Europe and North America. She has worked on internal web tools, back-end services, mobile devices, customer-facing web applications, open source web projects, and more throughout her growing career.
Tara loves learning new languages, comparing the differences between the languages and the ideas between the evolution of language, mostly syntactically but also phonetically. In her spare time, she enjoys curling up with a good book in English or in French, working on personal coding projects, and curling. Her current personal development projects use Ruby on Rails.
Tara’s favourite courses in university were Baby Compilers, Translation, The History of French-English Bilingualism, Data Structures, and 21st Century French Literature. She is currently exploring childhood bilingualism, but her primary interest in bilingualism lies in what she calls real life bilingualism – those who are forced bilingual by trade or non-linguists who thrive in the presence of multiple languages.
Tara blogs about a variety of topics including, but not limited to, working with Ruby on Rails on both Windows and Linux, careers in software, gender issues in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and workplaces, books, bilingualism, technology, hypothetical financial analysis, travel photos, and random thoughts.
You can reach Tara Clark via e-mail at “blog” at this domain.
The photo was taken on the grounds of Château de Fontainebleau near Paris, France in May of 2010.
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Waterloo’s co-op program was a huge advantage to start her career. Tara graduated with two years of work experience varied between large and small companies in Europe and North America. She has worked on internal web tools, back-end services, mobile devices, customer-facing web applications, open source web projects, and more throughout her growing career.
Tara loves learning new languages, comparing the differences between the languages and the ideas between the evolution of language, mostly syntactically but also phonetically. In her spare time, she enjoys curling up with a good book in English or in French, working on personal coding projects, and curling. Her current personal development projects use Ruby on Rails.
Tara’s favourite courses in university were Baby Compilers, Translation, The History of French-English Bilingualism, Data Structures, and 21st Century French Literature. She is currently exploring childhood bilingualism, but her primary interest in bilingualism lies in what she calls real life bilingualism – those who are forced bilingual by trade or non-linguists who thrive in the presence of multiple languages.
Tara blogs about a variety of topics including, but not limited to, working with Ruby on Rails on both Windows and Linux, careers in software, gender issues in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and workplaces, books, bilingualism, technology, hypothetical financial analysis, travel photos, and random thoughts.
You can reach Tara Clark via e-mail at “blog” at this domain.
The photo was taken on the grounds of Château de Fontainebleau near Paris, France in May of 2010.