Hello everybody and welcome to episode 64 of Under-Served. Today in studio I have with

me, Amber Khan, Executive Director of Engineering at Athena Health. Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Served, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.

Now, your host Andrew Jalina.

Amber, thank you so much for coming down and joining us today to record Under-Served.

Awesome. Don't thank you for having me. This is a very exciting opportunity here. I was looking

at your podcast and the background and seeing how you're really capitalizing on learning from

the big software and tech leaders that are not in the startups. This is fantastic. So a big space

that I'm passionate about. Excellent. Well, thank you very much. We have a whole bunch of

different folks in the audience from your peers in the software industry to young folks just

getting into it. And I think that some of the stories and experiences make it more real and feel

attainable for those folks. So we appreciate having you on. So one day long ago you were like them.

What were you doing as a young kid that got you interested in technology? I was kind of always

tinkering with hardware software randomly as I was growing up. I was always fixing stuff in the house,

things of that capacity. However, when I went to college, decided I should do engineering.

Four of my friends were in computer science courses and they all failed. And so I decided one time

to just try it. And I got a D and that kind of triggered me and I was thinking this logical

math stuff is interesting. So I dropped out of engineering and switched 100% to computer science.

So yeah, I mean, I dove right in. It was a lot of hours, a lot of nights, weekends. But I just

wanted to learn it. Well, that definitely takes some guts that for your friends fail out of it.

You go in, you get a D. I mean, D's get degrees, but still. Yes, it was probably not the right career path

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