This Jacobs School alumna is featured in Elle

Brina Lee was Instagrams's first female engineer but in this Elle interview, she confesses that she likes her pictures without a filter. The Jacobs School alum talks about why she likes coding, what engineering is and the gender gap at tech companies.  (Lee earned a bachelor's in communications and a master's in computer science from UC San Diego).

Sample quotes:

Engineering can be a bunch of things. In all cases, engineering is building things, whether it be with your hands like a mechanical engineer, or with code. To me it’s a creative tool to build communication in many different ways. And solving problems.

 A lot of people think that coding is boring, but you have to understand the impact that you’re having by submitting one or two lines of code. Just submitting one extra line of code into the Facebook repository impacts a billion people. Same thing with Instagram!

Oh, and Lee's favorite Instagram filter for video is Vesper.

Check out Lee's posts on Huffington Post