Out of 1300 people to be employed, a 24-year-old woman is now the sole Pakistani to work as a data engineer for Google.
Currently, Shafiqa Iqbal is employed in Warsaw, Poland. The young woman, who is from Sadiqabad in Punjab, made Pakistanis proud with her accomplishment.
Iqbal is now working for Google as a Big Data Engineer, serving as a Global Ambassador for Women in Technology, and being a Top-Rated Seller on Upwork. Shafiqa developed scalable, distributed solutions for companies all across the world using her expertise in cloud computing, backend development, database migrations and development, ETL pipelines, and logical programming, among other things.
Shafiqa asserts that “firms like Google and Facebook value open source work.” in an interview with well-known Pakistani YouTuber Junaid Akram nicknamed GanjiSwag. In addition, she asserted “there is a massive amount of youth potential in Pakistan, people are unaware of the recruiting process because Google doesn’t have a physical presence there, such as an office.”
Shafiqa also asserted that “organizations like Google and Facebook value the work done in open source. She also wanted to be independent, so she chose the sector and progressed through it until she was working for a reputable organization like Google.”
Shafiqa went on to say that “International graduates already have the Big Five Firms as their employment targets, and they start training for interviews and internships as soon as they graduate. Pakistan lags behind in being employed by prestigious firms like Google because of this.”
Shafiqa hopes to someday make Pakistan proud by using the exposure and knowledge she is currently acquiring while working at Google’s Poland Office.
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