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\"Welcome<\/p>\n

Bringing with her a master’s of science degree from MIT and a handful of patents, Monika joins Backblaze as a Software Engineer. She\u2019ll initially work on the server side of our service and she’s already busy checking in new code. Welcome Monika.<\/p>\n

How did you get into computers?<\/strong>
\nI took a basic language course in high school and I thought it was more fun than some of my other classes.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite language to code in?<\/strong>
\nI have coded in many languages and it\u2019s hard to pick out one favorite language. All languages come with some baggage and can be used incorrectly. My focus is to develop software that is simple and elegant.<\/p>\n

How do you currently back up your photos, music, data, etc. on your home computer?<\/strong>
\nI upload my photos to Flickr and upload some of my music and documents to Dropbox but sadly, ’till I became familiar with Backblaze, I didn\u2019t back up all my data.<\/p>\n

What attracted you to Backblaze?<\/strong>
\nPeople sometimes downplay the importance of file backup, yet I know of so many people who have lost thousands of photos and documents that were important to them. As we\u2019re becoming \u201cdigitized\u201d we need to make sure that we don\u2019t lose this data because of a faulty drive or natural disaster. I want to make it easy for people to safeguard data that matters to them.<\/p>\n

Where are you originally from?<\/strong>
\nI consider myself a citizen of the world. But I have been in California for the last 15 years of my life and I love it here.<\/p>\n

Favorite place you\u2019ve traveled?<\/strong>
\nParis is still my favorite city. I lived there for one year and I still consider it the most beautiful place in the world.<\/p>\n

If you won the lottery tomorrow, what would you do?<\/strong>
\nI would devote all my time to volunteering, especially working with kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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