 It's The Cube. Hi, this is Greg Stewart with The Cube and I'm on the ground in San Francisco, California at Meadocura's offices for our next edition of our Woman in Text series. I'm here with Systems Engineer here at Meadocura, Cynthia Thomas. Cynthia, welcome to The Cube. Thanks, Greg. Nice to see you. So I thought we'd just first dive into a little bit more about what Meadocura is and your role here. Sure. Yeah. So Meadocura is a software networking company. We started about five years ago in 2010. We're predominantly engineering at first. Our CEO and our chief architect are ex-Amazon folks. So they built the product basically with distributed systems in mind, so allowing us to highly scale in a highly resilient manner. So today, we're mostly known for basically our neutron plug-in for OpenStack, so solving the networking for OpenStack. But we also have VMware vSphere integration and our vision moving forward is to get more visibility on the underlay, on the physical infrastructure. So we'll also have agents basically that will be what we envision on white boxes with Linux running just to get more visibility on the underlay as well. Nice. So I was reading a little bit about your latest product, Meadonet, and it's Swift adoption in the open source space. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Oh, definitely. Yes. So actually, as of last November at the OpenStack Paris Summit, we announced we went open source and we've had an influx of people who are interested. And that was our intention really, to just get the product out there and remove any obstacles for barriers to entry. So yeah, people are definitely adopting it and it's been well received. Now, not too many women in networking. Could you talk a little bit about how you got interested in this field and how you got to your role where you are today here at Meadocura? Yeah, definitely. So I think it started when I was young. I always liked math and science. So those were kind of my strong suits. And early on, my mentors, I guess, you could say, my role models, I have an older sister who's in engineering. And my parents kind of focused more on education. So my dad, more having an engineering mind, he sort of removed the barriers for social norms as to what to play with. So my sister and I played with Barbies, Legos, cars and trains, you know, so like everything across the board. So we never really thought of ourselves as girls can't do this or can't do that. And then in high school, again, I love math and science. So that was positive. By the time I got to university, it was when I realized really, there's not many women in my field. No professors, maybe one in my fourth year. And at that point, it was a little different. There was only probably 10% of the computer engineering program were females. And then the specific program I was in, math and engineering at Queen's University, basically, I was one of two females in my program. But carrying forward, I always heard, you know, I'm interested. I like things that are logical. I like patterns. I like problem solving. So I still continued on. And I never thought about being female as, you know, holding me back for this field. And then I moved forward and got into the networking industry, basically. Great. So, Cynthia, if you had to go back in time and you were to start, you know, your freshman year, again, at Queen's University in Canada, what would your recommendation be to the young women starting off and how that they can further themselves in the field of technology? Well, I think there's a lot of online resources today, especially people maybe in remote places. Here in the Bay Area, there's a lot of camps and meetup groups, for example, that women and girls can join, and camps on weekends. So I think people more in remote, they should take advantage of things that are online, because there's just a ubiquitous amount of information available. And look for mentors, I think. I think that's really key. And keeping positive. If you love a passion, if your passion is technology, focus on your passion and just excel and do well. Good. Well, that's great. I'm Greg Stewart here on the ground in San Francisco, California. Be sure to check out all of our women in tech interviews on siliconangle.tv slash women in tech. You're watching theCUBE.