 My name is Selesia Marra, and I'm Italian. I'm a computer engineer, and I am a AWS cloud architect. In FAO, as a AWS cloud architect, I define all the standards, the procedures, the architecture that should be implemented in the FAO AWS cloud. I also help support people to adopt the cloud technologies and also to use them in the best way. So during the day, I'm contacting the various people who are asking me to support them, different types of support. Maybe there are emergencies where I need to intervene or asking me for debugging, helping them to debug, or sometimes, yes, they ask me some advices or some suggestions on how to improve their application or to enhance the application and suggest them how to integrate their application with some Amazon services or how to modify their infrastructure to achieve what they need. Decided to become a computer engineer a long, long time ago when I was really a small child because I loved playing with video games. I loved Japanese robot cartoons. My dream was to develop video games and build a very big robot that was managed by an artificial intelligence, let's say this way. So when then I had to decide the university faculty, I decided for a computer engineering faculty. No, never thought about that because I always be a person who has never put any limits. For me, it was not a problem. When I was attending the lessons, we had like 300 students and there were only 10 women. Now normally, the teams were working, I'm the only woman. But for me, it's not a problem. Initially, there were some people who were a little bit skeptical but when they saw that I was prepared that I knew how to work, that I was very good, then everything was passing. We were skeptical because we never saw a woman who was working with computers but then when you see that a person is professional, knows what she's doing, everything passes. Usually if I may say people who are not smart, who are not prepared have a bad attitude to a woman who is maybe embedding their scope of competencies but people who are clever, who are smart, who are professionals are not scared about that. To me, I would say to myself, well done, continue on this way. Don't worry, everything will go fine. You will encounter a lot of obstacle but you are strong enough to overcome all of them. If you are really motivated, then you really love computer engineer, you really love the technologies and you know how to do the things. Always be curious, never stop learning, experiment always the new technologies even if are not in your scope of competencies. Also, don't be scared to put everything in discussion and if you are asked to abandon your comfortable zone to start a new role, don't take this as a negative way but take that as a great opportunity of professional and personal growth. And another thing, age is not a limit. Whatever is your age, never stop learning and also if you are asked to change your role, it is not a problem.