Welcome everybody to episode number 122 of underserved.

Joining me in studio today is Ava Moskat, Director of firmware engineering at Samsara.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,

where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,

their insights, and their lessons learned. And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Eva, thank you so much for braving the traffic and joining us today on underserved.

Thank you, Andrew, for having me.

Excited to be here.

Excellent.

So, way back when, like, how did you first become interested in technology?

So growing up, it was always around me in the form of, like, video games, PCs.

I used to do a lot of gaming on the PC as well back in like AOL and MSN days.

And then I was lucky enough to where my older brother and my older cousins are huge gamers as well,

but they went on to do system engineering and computer engineering. They actually built their

own desktops for gaming and things like that. So it was something that was always around me.

I think for career

wise, I wasn't interested with my dad being a math major. That was just something that my dad would

give us like extra homework and things like that. So math always just came easier to me. So I knew I

wanted to go into some STEM field, but in terms of like computer science or software engineering, that

wasn't such a clear path until probably college. Yeah, they didn't have much tech in high school.

When I went to high school, it was teaching us how to type for the most part. We did have one

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