Tammarrian Rogers

Tammarrian Rogers is also CTO of OPTYVA, a consultancy and digital media group specializing in sustainability, business transformation, design and development, communications, and community development. Tammarrian has many passions including mentoring and inspiring girls, women and people of color to explore careers in technology. She also enjoys committing her time helping homeless humans. At an early age, she witnessed and felt the impact of the work her mother was involved in to empower, serve and protect our homeless community. When not working or serving, Tammarrian enjoys spending time with her family, competing in racquetball, and time outdoors.

Tammarrian Rogers got her degree in 1994 at the Stanford University, Master of Science in Engineering. Before that, in 1991, she gets a Bachelor of Arts/Science at the Tuskegee University.

For 20 years she worked at Microsoft where she led teams in the Office, Online Services, and Windows Divisions. There she had the responsibility for overseeing programs and initiatives that were designed to improve efficiencies and code quality. Early in her career she was a hardware engineer at Apple.

Rogers serves on multiple boards of community organizations. As of March 2019 she was a member of the board of the Ada Developers' Academy in Seattle, and Integrative Care Outreach.

Sparked by her work with the Ada program, she has championed the benefits of diversity in technology and encouraged the inclusion of women and nonbinary or transgender people in her speeches at UC Berkeley, Women in Tech, Ignite Seattle among others.

She is listed in The World's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018 and America's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018.