A young woman named Mehvish Mushtaq Hakak has created a mobile app that solved a major challenge for inhabitants of the Kashmir valley as well as tourists — finding listings of essential services. With this app, Mehvish became the first female app developer from Kashmir.
Since 2013, the app — Dial Kashmir — has provided phone numbers, e-mail IDs and addresses of essential and commercial services in Kashmir. In addition to the directory feature, it also has other features like ‘find pin code’, ‘railway timings’, ‘list of holidays’ and ‘prayer timings’ among others.
Mehvish took up an Android development course with live, online learning provider Edureka and went on to successfully create the app. For Edureka and the e-learning industry at large, Mehvish’s story remains an inspiring one.
Taking the world by storm
Rupam Sri is currently working with one of the top Indian tech MNCs in Bengaluru. She has 12 years of experience in manual testing and comes from a Java coding background. As technologies evolved, she felt the need to add automation testing to her resume. One of her friends introduced her to Edureka and she decided to learn a tool called Selenium WebDriver. Post the course, Rupam got a high-profile international automation testing project in her organisation.
Rupam credits the e-learning course for helping her ace interviews, where she was able to impress with her skills. Rupam is testimony that with the right kind of up-skilling, women can take the tech world by storm!
— IndiaTechOnline
