jennifer opal 📚👩🏾‍💻🤖

@jenniferopal.co

lifestyle, engineer, ml & ai for neurotech belfast 📍| student: msc in ai @ queen’s university belfast pr: info@jenniferopal.co 💌 🏳️‍🌈 ♎︎♍︎♎︎ website: https://jenniferopal.com

I’d been unemployed for over a year, tried to build a startup and just got a job. Is it DevOps Engineering role? No. Does it pay less than before? Yes! Will I be able to look after myself & pay these bills while I rebuild and start my Masters? Absolutely.

This might be a hot take but not bothering to get a degree or finish it is not an option if you are Black, a person of colour, part of the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled, first generation or a woman. I don’t think we should sleep on not getting an education if we’re able to financially.

Can I just say that many Black women who have been getting into entrepreneurship isn’t just because they want to, some have HAD to. As a Black woman who entered entrepreneurship, my thought process was if tech is keeping me out with 5 years of experience, I might as well do my own shxt.

ssensimm is in @cnet.com ! 🧠 As a late diagnosed AuDHD DevOps Engineer, I’m building the sensory overload support app I’ve always wished for. Research is being done but we need solutions now so I’m creating tech for good as a solo founder with an amazing community. 🥰 www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Avoiding Crisis Moments: This Developer Created an AI App to Predict Sensory Overload

I spoke with Jennifer Opal, who is building ssensimm, an AI-powered app that aims to help neurodivergent people.

cnet.com

Building a healthtech app using AI with ethics and privacy in mind also means doing a lot of learning to make sure I’m knowledgeable about privacy in design and ethics. Can’t release an app for neurodivergent people without considering this. I think that is so reckless.

I know we talk about AI “taking our jobs” but we need people looking at getting into AI policy, data policy, privacy, AI law & data law. Learn how to code if you want but we need talent to create policy to protect users of all these technologies & to defend the public in court over these issues.