Jenny Fung’s Tech Career Path from Environmental Science to Azavea Apprentice to Full-stack Software Engineer

As a student at Washington University in St. LouisJenny Fung was driven by an interest in better understanding climate change. She explored different types of environmental work early in her career that included lab work and activism. But she didn’t feel like her talents were being used in the right way.

She discovered geographic information systems (GIS) and was intrigued.

“I took a hard look at what things I had been exposed to and which I wanted to carry over,” she told Technical.ly. “With GIS, it’s the idea that you can look at data on a map and analyze it differently in a number of ways — I really liked it.”

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