Durdona Bakhronova

2020-2021 fellow Durdona Bakhronova was featured in a story on CNN, highlighted for her work mentoring women and youth in IT. In the interview, This woman wants more female coders in Uzbekistan, Durdona spoke about starting her career in coding without role models: “There were so few female representatives,” she said. “I decided to change that.”
Durdona works as a frontend developer for Super Dispatch, and is committed to empowering women and young people in Tashkent to pursue STEM fields. As a mentor, she encourages women to create products for their communities from the female perspective: “So many men try to build a product for everybody, but half of the population is women,” she said. Through her advocacy, Durdona hopes to communicate that anyone can be a mentor and role model: “What I do is contribute to the community in the form of meetups, developer festivals, etc. Other than that, I’m just a simple software engineer who just wants more women in IT.”​