Angie Jones

Angie Jones is software developer, Java Champion, international keynote speaker, and IBM Master Inventor. She is also the CEO of Diva Chix.
Early Life and Education.
Angie Jones was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Marion Abramson Senior High School in New Orleans, LA. After graduating from high school, she enrolled as a Business major at Tennessee State University. However, after taking an introductory C++ course which sparked her interest in tech, she changed her major to Computer Science. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Tennessee State University. In 2010, she obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University 
Career.
Angie Jones began her career at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina where she worked as a software engineer for 9 years.
In 2007, Jones became the CEO of Diva Chix, an online fashion game "where teenage girls and women learn to excel in technological areas as well as learn other key life lessons such as running a business and working as a team, while competing in fashion battles". The game is still active and Jones remains the CEO and sole developer.
In 2014, she became an adjunct professor at Durham Technical Community College where she taught Java programming courses until 2017.
In 2015, she joined LexisNexis as a Consulting Automation Engineer.
In 2016, she began speaking at software conferences around the world and became an international keynote speaker in 2017.
In 2017, she moved to California to work for Twitter as a Senior Automation Engineer.
Jones is currently the Senior Director of Developer Relations at Applitools, an AI-powered visual testing and monitoring platform. As part of her role at Applitools, she created Test Automation University, an online platform that provides free courses on programming and test automation subjects taught by herself and other notable industry experts. 
Jones holds 26 patented inventions in the United States of America and Japan.
Jones has authored chapters in multiple software engineering books including The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality, DevOps: Implementing Cultural Change, and 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. She has also written the foreward for Formulation. 
She also writes tutorials and technical articles on her website, angiejones.tech.
Volunteering.
Jones volunteers with Black Girls Code, where she led the Raleigh-Durham Chapter from 2015 - 2017. Jones also volunteered with TechGirlz where she planned and taught technology workshops for middle-school girls from 2015 - 2017. Jones is also an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority where she has served as Vice President and Technology Chairman of her local chapter, Alpha Zeta Omega in Durham, North Carolina.
Awards and Honors.
In 2009, Angie was awarded the title of IBM Master Inventor. In 2017, she won the Leah K. Frazier award for "Service with a Global Impact" from Alpha Kappa Alpha in which she is an active sorority member. On July 3 2020, Angie became the first Black female Java Champion, an Oracle-sponsored exclusive group of experts in the Java programming language who make significant contributions to the Java ecosystem. Also in 2020, she was awarded the CSC Alumni Award by the North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science and was also named a GitHub Star.