Community XP

• 2021-present: Gitpod
  • Aug 2022: Head of Community
  • July 2021: Senior Community Engineer
• 2021-present: Ladies in DevOps Community Founder
• 2021: AWS Community Builder
• 2016-2021: Code First Girls
  • "ShefCodeFirst" Women in Tech Community
  • Lead Instructor
  • BT furtHER program Mentor
  • Fellowship Mentor
  • Ambassador
• 2017 - 2018: MedTech Sheffield / #HackMed18

Key Contributions

• March 2016: Introducing CFG students to the hackathon scene and the wider Women in Tech community.
• Feb 2017: Collaboration with HackSheffield to take over 20 CFG students to the InspireWIT conference.
• April 2018: Efforts in organising #HackMed18 saw an increase in attendance of women (47%) and students from different backgrounds including Humanities, Finance and Arts.
• March 2019: For International Women's Day, I organised an event at the BT office in Leeds with local Yorkshire speakers in the tech community which was shared and highlighted by BT Consumer's CEO, Marc Allera.
• April 2021: On launch day of Ladies in DevOps, we had 150 community members join organically through social media platforms. We now have a growing community of over 500+ members and some exciting partnerships and sponsorships to help women advance in their careers!
• July 2022: In a year, I 10x'ed our Gitpod Community (from 500 to 5,000 members), launched a Community Heroes programme (now with 30+ ambassadors across the world) and several community initiatives to bring our superfans together.