Yeah, it's nice to see all of you.

Here's to want to listen to my story about gratitude.

And, um, I'm gonna tell you about a day and evening in July 2015 that changed my prospection off, who I am and what I'm gonna be on.

I'm still very, very grateful for for that moment.

But the story starts a little bit earlier.

About six months earlier when I came to Berlin as a biologist to start a PhD on honeybees and I stayed there for three months.

Notice Academia really wasn't the place for me, and I decided to become a developer.

So I learned how to code.

I wrote lots and lots of applications, and three months later, I actually had my first developer job, so that that was awesome, right?

But it was also super scary.

You go in there, you don't know anything.

And right there was so much stuff that over my head.

But also in my first days on the job, something really weird happened to me.

Suddenly I was introduced everywhere as the female developer, and I never considered myself female.

I was just sissy.

I never thought about this and it kept on happening like I was lucky.

My team was really nice.

They were trying to make me feel good and they were teaching me a lot of things.

But I was constantly the only woman in the room and I didn't even notice.

But it it was just straining.

So now we come to do like, three months later, I still come home really tired because of all the stuff that I learned every day, right?

But also because of this weird feeling off not fitting in like everybody's kind of speaking a different language from me and zay mutable in.

So I go to meet ups to meet people.

On one of these meet ups that are found was women who coat Berlin.

And on that night, it was the very first meet up.

I didn't expect anything.

One of my first Check me, Tubbs.

Andi.

I walk into a room on this room in this room there are, like, 50 female developers, and I almost cried it like as the can't describe the feeling and yeah, all I can say, like, sometimes you have to go way to notice your home.

It like the way these meet ups workers.

They have a couple of talks and a lot off community time.

It's open to everybody.

Also, males can attend on Lee.

People who consider themselves female can speak and all the technical like it's over all languages, all topics.

So the tempting of talks totally went over my hat.

I didn't understand anything, but the thing that I really remember is the amazing Alexander.

Like every love Scotch is one of the organizers and a senior IOS developer at Soundcloud.

And she gave a talk about something USC I didn't understand at all.

But seeing her up on stage there showed me that these people were someone like me who can be coding rock stars.

And that was the first moment where I actually felt like I could belong into this industry.

That that could be a place for me in there on.

This really has opened up for me the opportunity to go to a lot of other meet ups.

And now I'm This is four years ago, right?

So now I speak at a lot of meters.

I tutor I.

There's a lot of communities that I can call home now, but it all started on that that evening, and I'm super super grateful for that.