Bio: Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as a way of sending messages, links, files and events to friends. Leah is the lead developer for the site and spends most of her time working on feature development, fixing bugs, scaling the site, and maintaining the API. She’s a recent computer science graduate from the University of Minnesota and enjoys the challenge of developing a web application from scratch. Leah will be speaking about the career choices for recent computer science university graduates.

Abstract: The best way to improve your career and your programming skills is to put yourself in difficult positions. Pressure is needed to create diamonds - and great software. Accepting impossible challenges and seeking out new opportunities is critical to creating great products and becoming a rock star programmer. Why be a mediocre coder working a dull job? Why not push yourself to make the next big thing?

Website: leahculver.com