Women Who Reign: Esha Joshi

”Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.”
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Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
Hi there! My name is Esha Joshi and I am a software engineer at Apple living and working in Sunnyvale, CA! I just started my job in the end of September and it’s been an overwhelming but really incredible blast so far. For four short years, I lived on the Central Coast of California attending Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for my undergrad career and graduated with a degree in Software Engineering!

As someone who can easily is stifled by a stringent routine, I always try to seek out unique opportunities and different activities that spice things up and make life interesting. Prior to college, dancing was huge in my life (I consider it my first love). Although I did not dance in college, I participated in other activities that were challenging, exposed me to alternate ways of thinking, and forced me out of my comfort zone — I joined the women in computing club at my college, got involved with Cal Poly’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, became a tour guide, and even had a minor career on the debate team! Through college, I learned a great deal about myself and concluded that many of my “takeaways” have resulted not from the classes and activities I participated in, but from the people I surrounded myself with.

Now I am really lucky and privileged to be back in the San Francisco Bay Area — also where I grew up — and am excited to see what amazing opportunities the future holds for me. Most importantly, I am taking the time to get back into hobbies that were neglected while in college — dancing and reading!

Fun fact: I have stubby thumbs, which makes me less ambidextrous when I am rock climbing!

What # would define your life journey?
#yolo — I have started to adopt this way of thinking in the last two years and it constantly reminds me to not take life too seriously. It reminds me be foolish but…